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Number 93 at Staverton on the South Devon Railway. In February 1908, a steam rail motor was turned out from Swindon railway works and given the number 93. It was one of sixteen built to Diagram R, the last batch of steam rail motors. These were 70 feet (21 m) long and 9 feet (2.7 m) wide.
D6975 was first allocated to Cardiff Canton and was renumbered as 37275 in 1974. After it was withdrawn in 1999 it was sold into preservation and ended up on the South Devon Railway. It moved to the Dartmouth Steam Railway in 2018 in exchange for Class 25 D7535 as it was considered to be better suited for the heavier trains on that line. [148 ...
The last engine of GWR design built by British Railways was 1600 class No 1669 in May 1955. [34] However, as the railway preservation movement grew, and many types of locomotive were preserved, some people conceived the idea of reconstructing locomotives of classes that had not survived - even in scrapyards - long enough to be preserved.
In 1854 the GWR absorbed two standard-gauge lines, the Shrewsbury and Chester Railway and the Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway to become the GWR's Northern Division. . Consequently, from then until his retirement in 1864, Daniel Gooch (the company's Superintendent of Locomotive Engines, a post he had occupied since 1837), although a passionate advocate of the GWR's original broad gauge, of ...
The rolling stock of the Bodmin and Wenford Railway are the locomotives, carriages and wagons used on the Bodmin and Wenford Railway, a heritage railway in Cornwall, England. The Great Western Railway (GWR) opened a branch line from Bodmin Road to Bodmin General in 1887 and this was extended in 1888 to connect with the earlier Bodmin and ...
A preserved GWR autotrain, running with the locomotive sandwiched between two driving coaches on the South Devon Railway.. The Autotrain was a type of passenger train used in the early 20th century, where the steam locomotive could be remotely controlled from the rear of the train.
The Great Western Railway (GWR) 2301 Class or Dean Goods Class is a class of British 0-6-0 steam locomotives.. Swindon Works built 260 of these goods locomotives between 1883 and 1899 to a design of William Dean.
A preserved GWR 4500 Class steam locomotive, showing power classification "C" on a yellow route restriction disc, on the upper cab side-sheet. On 1 July 1905 the Great Western Railway (GWR) introduced a system for denoting both the haulage capabilities and the weight restrictions which applied to their various classes of locomotive.