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The first Locomotives of the Great Western Railway (GWR) were specified by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, but Daniel Gooch was soon appointed as the railway's Locomotive Superintendent. He designed several different 7 ft 1 ⁄ 4 in ( 2,140 mm ) broad gauge types for the growing railway, such as the Firefly and later Iron Duke Class .
Preserved Great Western Railway steam locomotives (48 P) R. Rhymney Railway locomotives (5 P) T. Taff Vale Railway locomotives (8 P)
This is a list of the 7 ft 1 ⁄ 4 in (2,140 mm) broad gauge locomotives of the Great Western Railway. [note 1] It excludes those purchased from constituent companies, or acquired through amalgamations.
The Great Western Railway 4000 or Star were a class of 4-cylinder 4-6-0 passenger steam locomotives designed by George Jackson Churchward for the Great Western Railway (GWR) in 1906 and introduced from early 1907. The prototype was built as a 4-4-2 Atlantic (but converted to 4-6-0 during 1909). They proved to be a successful design which ...
This is a list of all GWR Hall Class engines (to the original Churchward design) built by the Great Western Railway. Eleven of these were converted to burn oil for a short period in the 1940s. During this time, they were renumbered into the 39xx series.
George Jackson Churchward created for the Great Western Railway a family of standard classes of locomotive, based on a limited set of shared dimensions and components, and his principles were followed by his successors. Most of these locomotives had two cylinders, placed outside the frames, and they are listed here, ranging in size from small ...
The 4073 or Castle Class are 4-6-0 steam locomotives of the Great Western Railway, built between 1923 and 1950. [2] They were designed by the railway's Chief Mechanical Engineer, Charles Collett, for working the company's express passenger trains. [3] They could reach speeds of up to 100 mph (160 km/h). [4]
In 2012, Hornby released models of the 4200 class in both original GWR green and BR black. [10] The GWR green version was a DCC-ready model of locomotive No. 4283, as it appeared between 1934 and 1942.