Coal

GWR No. 36 was a prototype 4-6-0 steam locomotive constructed at Swindon railway works for the Great Western Railway in 1896, the first 4-6-0 ever built for the GWR and one of the first in Britain. It was designed by William Dean and le Fleming comments that "the design is unusual and entirely Dean of the later period, including the only large boiler ever built entirely to his ideas."

Two

4953 Pitchford Hall is a 4-6-0 Hall class steam locomotive built by the Great Western Railway (GWR), currently preserved at the Epping Ongar Railway.

GWR 645 Class

Hercules

Nemesis

Two, inside

GWR 4073 Class 5051 Drysllwyn Castle

GWR 4073 Class 5043 Barbury Castle

A locomotive is seen from in front and from the right. The locomotive is mainly green but the smoke box is black and the buffer beam is red with the number 4936 written in yellow letters. The chimney is trimmed with a copper ring and the valve cover is made of brass. Behind the locomotive is a green tender with the words "GREAT WESTERN" written in yellow. In the background to the left is a signal and an engine shed with a tank engine, and to the right is a car park behind a wooden rail.

GWR Autocoach

King Edward I

The GWR 481 Class was a class of 20 2-4-0 mixed-traffic steam locomotives designed for the Great Western Railway by Joseph Armstrong and built at Swindon Works in 1869. They were similar in size to the 439 Class but differed in appearance, thanks to the flowing lines of their outside frames.

GWR 7800 Class 7827 Lydham Manor

December 1950

various

GWR 9400 Class 9466

Steam

GWR Swindon Works

November 1950

GWR 6800 Class 6831 Bearley Grange

Lots D, E, F, G, H, I, R, S, W, Z, C2, M2, P2

Preserved 5101 Class locomotive 4160 at Minehead, West Somerset Railway, painted in British Railways lined-green livery.

Three extant, remainder scrapped

Carmarthen and Cardigan Railway

Great Western Railway (GWR) 6000 Class 6024 King Edward I is a preserved steam locomotive. She ran from 1930 to 1962 for the Great Western Railway and latterly British Railways hauling express passenger services.After withdrawal, it was sent to Woodham Brothers scrapyard in Barry, South Wales, where it remained for a number of years before being bought for preservation. It returned to steam in 1989 and has since been certified for mainline running.

GWR 7800 Class 7822 Foxcote Manor

GWR 481 Class

GWR Manor Class

Loco & tender:
BR: 5MT

GWR 517 Class

* Outside diameter:

The 806 Class (20 locomotives, nos. 806-825) was Joseph Armstrong's last design of 2-4-0 mixed-traffic locomotives for the Great Western Railway, built at Swindon Works in 1873. A further 20 locomotives were added by Armstrong's successor William Dean in 1881-2; numbered 2201-2220, these had modern domeless boilers. The class had a similar appearance to the 717 Class but had driving wheels 6 in (152 mm) larger.

7029 Clun Castle is a railway locomotive, built to the Great Western Railway Castle Class design shortly after Nationalisation by the Western Region of British Railways at the ex-Great Western Railway Swindon Works in May 1950 and named after Clun Castle.

Pyracmon

BR: 7F

GWR Bulldog Class

GWR Birdcage Class

6024 King Edward I

June 1930

December 1949 – September 1955

GWR Metropolitan Class

The Great Western Railway Premier Class 0-6-0 broad gauge steam locomotives for goods train work. This class was introduced into service between February 1846 and May 1847, and withdrawn between March 1866 and June 1872.These were the first locomotives built at Swindon railway works, albeit with boilers supplied to the company. They were larger than the existing Hercules Class but still with haycock fireboxes.

GWR 927 Class

The Great Western Railway (GWR) steam locomotive No. 4936 Kinlet Hall is a preserved 4-6-0 Hall class locomotive that is currently (as of April 2015) certified for mainline operation on Network Rail.

GWR No. 1340 Trojan

Great Britain

GWR 4900 Class 4979 Wootton Hall

later

Vintage Trains Ltd

All scrapped

GWR Dukedog Class

Great Western Railway 7800 Class No. 7821 Ditcheat Manor is a preserved British steam locomotive.The second of the last batch of 10 engines of the thirty-strong class, 7821 was actually built by British Railways in 1950. Like most of the class of lightweight 4-6-0s, it was allocated to lines in Mid Wales, but was also based Oxley and Newton Abbott. 7821 was withdrawn in November 1965 and was sent to Woodham Brothers scrapyard in Barry, Vale of Glamorgan, South Wales.Rescued from Barry in 1980, it was sent to the embryonic Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway, before moving to the Llangollen Railway and then Swindon, restoration being completed in 1998, when it first steamed at the West Somerset Railway. The loco then worked on the Great Central Railway in Leicestershire, but in late 2005 moved to the Cambrian Railways Trust. 7821 moved again in 2005 to the Churnet Valley Railway where it served its last months of its boiler ticket in traffic.In 2007, the West Somerset Railway Association bought 7821 from its private owner, in part funded by reselling GWR 0-6-0PT No. 6412 to its original owner, the South Devon Railway. The locomotive was initially moved to Williton, and then in 2010 to Bishops Lydeard. In light of a mechanical examination showing that the locomotive needed extensive and expensive chassis and boiler work, whilst funding is raised for its overhaul the WSRA agreed a static display contract with the Museum of the Great Western Railway, Swindon for a minimum contract period of five years. The locomotive was subsequently relocated to the museum by road on 14 November 2010, where it presently resides and is due to stay until November 2020.

slow

January 1938

BR: 8P

GWR 6800 Class 6880 Betton Grange

The Great Western Railway (GWR) 4400 Class was a class of 2-6-2T side tank steam locomotive.

Banking

GWR 455 Class

full

GWR 4900 Class 5952 Cogan Hall

South Devon Railway Exe and Teign

GWR 378 Class

GWR Vulcan, Æolus and Bacchus
GWR Charles Tayleur locomotives

GWR 4900 Class 4942 Maindy Hall

GWR Swindon works

, dia × stroke

The GWR Autocoach (or auto-trailer) is a type of coach that was used by the Great Western Railway for push-pull trains powered by a steam locomotive. The distinguishing design feature of an autocoach is the driving cab at one end, allowing the driver to control the train without needing to be located in the cab of the steam locomotive. This eliminates the need to run the engine round to the other end of the coach at the end of each journey.When one or more autocoaches are connected to a suitably equipped steam locomotive, the combination is known as an auto-train, or, historically, a railmotor train. A steam locomotive provided with the equipment to be used as an autotrain is said to be auto-fitted.The autocoach is the forerunner of the driving trailer used with push–pull trains.

GWR 4700 Class

GWR 3120 Prairie locomotive in as built condition

The Great Western Railway (GWR) 5800 Class was a twenty-strong class of 0-4-2T side tank steam locomotive. These were introduced in 1933 for light branch work. They were similar to the GWR 1400 Class but were not equipped for working autotrains. The entire class was scrapped. The last survivor number 5815 was with withdrawn in 1956.

The Great Western Railway County Class were a class of 4-4-0 steam locomotives for express passenger train work introduced in 1904 in a batch of ten. Two more batches followed in 1906 and 1912 with minor differences. They were designed by George Jackson Churchward, who used standard components to produce a four-coupled version of his Saint Class 4-6-0s.

Rood Ashton Hall

The Great Western Railway (GWR) 7800 Class or Manor Class is a class of 4-6-0 steam locomotive. They were designed as a lighter version of the GWR Grange Class, giving them a wider Route Availability. Like the 'Granges', the 'Manors' used parts from the GWR 4300 Class Moguls but just on the first batch of twenty. Twenty were built between 1938 and 1939, with British Railways adding a further 10 in 1950. They were named after Manors in the area covered by the Great Western Railway.

GWR 4800 Class

GWR 56 Class

The 439 Class, nicknamed the Bicycle class because of its unusual appearance, was a series of six 2-4-0 mixed-traffic engines designed by Joseph Armstrong for the Great Western Railway, and built at Swindon Works in 1868. The "Bicycles" worked at Northern Division sheds, running between Wolverhampton and Chester.

378 Class

water tube boiler

4953 Pitchford Hall

Undergoing restoration from scrapyard condition

The Great Western Railway (GWR) GWR 5100 Class (known as the 3100 class between 1912 and 1927) was a class of 2-6-2T side tank steam locomotives. It was the first of a series of broadly similar classes used principally for suburban passenger services.

April 1956 – November 1965

The Great Western Railway Caesar Class 0-6-0ST broad gauge steam locomotives. They were designed by Daniel Gooch for goods train work. This class was introduced into service between June 1851 and February 1852, and withdrawn between June 1871 and June 1880.From about 1865, the Caesar Class was expanded to include locomotives formerly known as Ariadne Class, Caliph Class, or GWR Pyracmon Class.

Joseph Armstrong

The Great Western Railway steam locomotive no. 7822 Foxcote Manor is a 4-6-0 Manor Class locomotive, built in 1950 at Swindon Works. It is part of a post-war batch of 10 locomotives, which follows on from 20 earlier locomotives built in 1938.

Earl Bathurst is a preserved Castle class locomotive. The locomotive is run by the Didcot Railway Centre.It was originally built as Drysllwyn Castle in May 1936. Its first shed allocation was Swansea Landore. Renamed Earl Bathurst in August 1937; the name coming from a de-named GWR Dukedog Class. It was moved to Neath shed in April 1961 before its final move to Llanelly in February 1963. It was withdrawn May 1963 after completing 1,300,000 miles.

Trojan

GWR Hall Class 5952 Cogan Hall was built at Swindon in December 1935. As a mixed traffic engine it handled both passenger duties and freight duties. Its first shed allocation was the Penzance depot in Cornwall. In August 1950 it moved to Old Oak Common. During this time it was fitted with a three row superheater. In March 1959 it moved again to the Worcester depot.

The GWR 4100 Class was a class of steam locomotives in the Great Western Railway (GWR) of the United Kingdom.The Badminton class express passenger 4-4-0 steam locomotives were introduced in 1897 as a development from the earlier Duke class. The name Badminton was chosen after the Duke of Beaufort's Badminton estate, through which the GWR was building a new line to South Wales at the time.Further modifications to the design resulted in the Atbara Class entering service in 1900, the names for these locomotives generally being taken from contemporary military engagements or senior army commanders. Later engines were named after cities of the British Empire.The final batch of locomotives were named after varieties of garden plant and in consequence were known as the Flower Class.These three types were later standardised and treated as a single class, so are listed together here. Four other prototype 4-4-0s, originally built in 1894 as the Armstrong Class, were also later rebuilt as Badmintons (see below).This class were subject to the 1912 renumbering of GWR 4-4-0 locomotives, which saw the Bulldog Class gathered together in the series 3300-3455, and other types renumbered out of that series. This class took numbers 4100-4172 (of which numbers 4101-4120 had previously been used by Flower Class locomotives).

Climbing Lickey Bank with help from a Class 37.

The first 19 locomotives ordered by Isambard Kingdom Brunel for the Great Western Railway included two unusual Haigh Foundry locomotives.Snake and Viper were built at the Haigh Foundry in 1838 with 14.75-by-18-inch (375 mm × 457 mm) cylinders and the driving wheels geared 2:3 in order to keep the cylinder stroke speed low while allowing high track speed, in line with Brunel's specifications.

GWR FM (Bath)

The Great Western Railway (GWR) Ariadne Class and Caliph Class were broad gauge 0-6-0 steam locomotives designed for goods train work by Daniel Gooch and are often referred to as his Standard Goods locomotives.The class was introduced into service between May 1852 and March 1863, and were built in seven lots at Swindon totalling 102 locomotives, and withdrawn between January 1871 and the end of the GWR broad gauge in May 1892.

The Great Western Railway Pyracmon Class were 0-6-0 broad gauge steam locomotives for goods train work. This class was introduced into service between November 1847 and April 1848, and withdrawn between August 1871 and December 1873.

Slide valves

GWR Ariadne Class
Ariadne or Caliph

The Great Western Railway (GWR) 5205 Class is a class of 2-8-0T steam locomotives.

Metropolitan

All original locomotives scrapped; one new-build under construction

Cab for Betton Grange

GWR No. 2194/5 Kidwelly

GWR 999 Class

GWR Dean experimental locomotives

The GWR Autocoach (or auto-trailer) is a type of coach that was used by the Great Western Railway for push-pull trains powered by a steam locomotive. The distinguishing design feature of an autocoach is the driving cab at one end, allowing the driver to control the train without needing to be located in the cab of the steam locomotive.

GWR Banking Class

GWR 4900 Class 5900 Hinderton Hall

GWR Apollo, Neptune and Venus

see text for variations

* Barrel:

Erlestoke Manor

GWR 6959 Class 7927 Willington Hall

GWR Group plc

The Great Western Railway Iron Duke Class 4-2-2 was a class of 7 ft 1⁄4 in (2,140 mm) broad gauge steam locomotives for express passenger train work.

GWR 4400 Class

The 927 Class or Coal Goods was series of 20 0-6-0 freight steam locomotives designed by Joseph Armstrong for the Great Western Railway, and built at Swindon Works in 1874. They were numbered in the series 927-946.

The GWR 633 Class were 0-6-0 tank locomotives designed by George Armstrong and built at the Wolverhampton railway works of the Great Western Railway in 1871-2. Unusually, they had side (not saddle) tanks, and inside frames, with wheels of 4 ft 6 1⁄2 in (1,384 mm) in diameter and a wheelbase of 15 ft 6 in (4.72 m). The weight was 34 tons 12 cwt. There were twelve locomotives, numbered 633-644.

GWR/BR Swindon Works

GWR 4073 Class 5029 Nunney Castle

GWR Ariadne Class and Caliph Class

GWR: D

GWR 6959 Class 6960 Raveningham Hall

The Great Western Railway (GWR) 6000 Class or King is a class of 4-6-0 steam locomotive designed for express passenger work and introduced in 1927. They were the largest locomotives built by the GWR (apart from the unique Pacific (The Great Bear). The class was named after kings of the United Kingdom and of England, beginning with the then reigning monarch, King George V, and going back through history. They handled the principal GWR expresses on the main line from London to the West of England and to on the GWR main line to Birmingham and Wolverhampton, until 1962 when the class was withdrawn.

GWR 378 Class 2-2-2

GWR 717 Class

Rover Class

March 1938

GWR 4900 Class 4-6-0 No. 4979 Wootton Hall is a steam locomotive. It was built at Swindon, February 1930, and was one of 258 Hall class steam locomotives constructed.Its first shed allocation was Plymouth Laira and after 32 years of service it ended up at Oxford. During this time it was allocated to sheds in Penzance, Tyseley, Severn Tunnel Junction, Cardiff Canton, and ended its days in the London Division of the Western Region of British Railways, based at Southall, Reading, Didcot and finally Oxford in July 1958. It was used for a variety of duties including fast passenger service and freight.It was withdrawn from service in December 1963 and acquired by Woodham Brothers scrapyard in Barry, South Wales, in June 1964.

GWR Caesar Class

The Great Western Railway (GWR) 4700 Class was a class of nine 2-8-0 steam locomotives, designed by George Jackson Churchward. They were introduced in 1919 for heavy mixed traffic work. Although primarily designed for fast freight, the class also sometimes hauled passenger trains, notably heavy holiday expresses in the summer months.

Prince

GWR No. 1334, and sister locomotives 1335 and 1336, were 2-4-0 steam locomotives which the Great Western Railway inherited from the Midland and South Western Junction Railway.

GWR 77 and 167 Classes

GWR 4575 Class 5542

GWR 4079 Pendennis Castle

Great Western Railway 7800 Class No. 7821 Ditcheat Manor is a preserved British steam locomotive.The second of the last batch of 10 engines of the thirty-strong class, 7821 was actually built by British Railways in 1950. Like most of the class of lightweight 4-6-0s, it was allocated to lines in Mid Wales, but was also based Oxley and Newton Abbott.

GWR 57 Class

GWR Snake and Viper

GWR 7800 Class 7812 Erlestoke Manor is a preserved steam locomotive, that serviced the Great Western Railway and later British Railways.

Great Western Railway

GWR 439 Class

Red

GWR ATC

Fire Fly

BR: 8F

4930 Hagley Hall is a Great Western Railway, 4-6-0 Hall class locomotive, built in May 1929 at Swindon Works to a design by Charles Collett. It is one of eleven of this class that made it into preservation. The locomotive is named after Hagley Hall in Worcestershire.

GWR: Yellow

February 1939

GWR

Works Nos: 563–74, 575–94, 605–24

GWR 850 Class

The William Dean 7 or Armstrong Class refers to a group of four prototype 4-4-0 double-frame locomotives built at the Swindon Works of the Great Western Railway in 1894.

No.6880 Betton Grange is a steam locomotive which is under construction as a "new-build" project, based on the Llangollen Railway in Denbighshire, Wales. Described as "building the 81st Grange", the project started in 1998, and the locomotive was expected to be operational by 2013. All of the original GWR 6800 Class Grange locomotives were withdrawn for scrap by the end of 1965; this project is a creation, from an assemblage of original GWR and newly manufactured components, of a member of this class.

GWR Container

GWR Flower Class

Sir Daniel Class No. 472 as built

ClimbingLickey Bankwith help from a Class 37.

Great Western Railway (GWR) 6000 Class 6024 King Edward I is a preserved steam locomotive. She ran from 1930 to 1962 for the Great Western Railway and latterly British Railways hauling express passenger services.After withdrawal, it was sent to Woodham Brothers scrapyard in Barry, South Wales, where it remained for a number of years before being bought for preservation. It returned to steam in 1989 and has since been certified for mainline running. The locomotive is currently undergoing a 10 yearly major overhaul to mainline running condition.

Operational, certified for mainline use

Dumbleton Hall is a British Collett-built GWR 4900 Class (Hall Class) 4-6-0 steam locomotive, built in Swindon in March 1929. Its first shed allocation was at Old Oak Common. In August 1950, the next shed allocation was Reading, and in March 1959 it was allocated to Newton Abbot. The locomotive's last shed allocation was Bristol Barrow Rd.

GWR Wolverhampton works

December 1963

GWR Group

The Great Western Railway Leo Class 2-4-0 was a class of broad gauge steam locomotives for goods train work. This class was introduced into service between January 1841 and July 1842, and withdrawn between September 1864 and June 1874.These locomotives were the first for the railway with coupled wheels as they were designed as goods locomotives, but they later found use on passenger trains too.

Cookham Manor.

British Railways

The Firefly was a class of broad gauge 2-2-2 steam locomotives used for passenger services on the Great Western Railway. The class was introduced into service between March 1840 and December 1842, and withdrawn between December 1863 and July 1879.Following the success of the Star class locomotives introduced to the Great Western Railway by Daniel Gooch, Gooch set to work to develop a new class based on North Star, but with larger boilers. The result was the Fire Fly, later followed by 61 similar locomotives designated the same class.From about 1865, the Fire Fly Class locomotives became part of the Priam Class, along with the Prince Class locomotives.The original Fire Fly is said to have covered the 30.75 miles (49.49 km) from Twyford to London Paddington in 37 minutes, an average speed of 50 miles per hour (80 km/h), which was unprecedented in 1840.

The first 19 locomotives ordered by Isambard Kingdom Brunel for the Great Western Railway included six 2-2-2 Mather, Dixon locomotives. They were built by Mather, Dixon and Company, but were unsuccessful, and were rapidly replaced by the Star Class locomotives ordered by Daniel Gooch, once he had been appointed as the Locomotive Engineer.

March 1937

Armstrong Class

Great Western Railway Swindon works

The Great Western Railway (GWR) 4200 Class is a class of 2-8-0T steam locomotives.

GWR 3800 'County' Class

7828 Odney Manor is a Great Western Railway locomotive part of the Manor Class. It is one of 9 locomotives preserved from the class which originally had 30. Built by British Railways in 1950 it was withdrawn from service in 1965 before being moved to Woodham Brothers scrapyard in Barry, South Wales. Since 2004 it has been owned by the West Somerset Railway, being based there since 1995.

Great Western Railway 5600 class

The GWR 56 Class were 2-4-0 tender locomotives designed for the Great Western Railway by Joseph Armstrong and built at Swindon Works in 1871-2.

GWR Firefly Class

Primarily GWR Northern division

GWR 5101 Class

dia × stroke

Two, outside

GWR 5051 Earl Bathurst

two

GWR 655
* Pitch:

The GWR 4073 Class 5043 Earl of Mount Edgcumbe is a steam locomotive of the GWR 'Castle' Class, built in March 1936. It was originally named Barbury Castle, and was renamed Earl of Mount Edgcumbe in September 1937. It had a double chimney and 4 row superheater fitted in October 1958.Its first shed allocation was Old Oak Common; from June 1952 to February 1956 it was based at Carmarthen, before returning again to Old Oak Common. Like all other steam locomotives based there, with the dieselisation of Cardiff Canton TMD it was transferred to Cardiff East Dock shed in September 1962, its last shed allocation.It was withdrawn in December 1963, and acquired by Woodham Brothers scrapyard in Barry, South Wales in June 1964.

normal,

GWR 5100 Class

GWR 4900 Class 4930 Hagley Hall

GWR 7800 Class 7828 Odney Manor

GWR Mather, Dixon locomotives

No.6880 Betton Grange is a steam locomotive which is under construction as a "new-build" project, based on the Llangollen Railway in Denbighshire, Wales. Described as "building the 81st Grange", the project started in 1998, and the locomotive was expected to be operational by 2013.

GWR FM Bath

GWR 6959 Class 6990 Witherslack Hall

Great Western Railway Caesar Class

GWR Caliph Class

GWR 7200 Class

GWR 655 Class

"Norton Manor"

Unclassified

The Great Western Railway Hawthorn Class were 2-4-0 broad gauge steam locomotives for passenger train work. This class was introduced into service in 1865, a development of the Victoria Class.Twenty locomotives were ordered from Slaughter, Grüning and Company and given the names of famous engineers. The remaining six were built by the railway itself at Swindon and given names previously carried by the Firefly Class locomotives that they replaced.Withdrawals started in March 1876 but the following year ten were rebuilt as 2-4-0T tank locomotives; the last survived until the end of the broad gauge on 21 May 1892.

GWR 7800 Class

GWR 6000 Class

GWR 806 Class

GWR England Class

No. 1532 at Croes Newydd Depot, 1947. This was built as a standard saddle-tank in 1879, and acquired its panniers in 1921

two inside

GWR: Red

GWR Gooch Standard Goods

Lode Star is the only remaining GWR 4000 Class locomotive. It is preserved at the National Railway Museum in York, UK.Lode Star was designed by George Jackson Churchward and was built in 1907, one of the first locomotives in its class to be built.The design of the locomotive was influenced by de Glehn, a French engineer. He used four cylinders on his locomotives, which Churchward copied.

Unknown, probably scrapped

The Queen Class was Joseph Armstrong's last class of 2-2-2 express engine for the Great Western Railway, larger than the Sir Daniel Class of about a decade earlier. They worked express trains for almost 30 years, and were in effect the predecessors of the larger Singles of William Dean.

GWR Dean Single

Number 7028 Cadbury Castle was a Great Western Railway 4073 Castle class 4-6-0 steam locomotive built at the former GWR Swindon Works on 19 May 1950. The Castle Class locomotives were built as express passenger locomotives on the GWR. The Castle Class locomotives were to replace the earlier 4000 Star class locomotives. They were designed by the railway's Chief Mechanical Engineer, Charles Collett. Cadbury Castle cost £10,546 and an extra £1,094 for her Hawksworth tender.

GWR 4200 Class

Class 655 of the Great Western Railway was a class of 52 0-6-0 saddle tank locomotives designed by George Armstrong and built at the GWR's Wolverhampton Works.

Hinderton Hall is a 4-6-0 GWR 4900 Class locomotive preserved at Didcot Railway Centre. It was designed by Collett in 1928, built at Swindon in 1931 as the 101st of its class.The locomotive spent most of its working life in the West Country. It was withdrawn from Bristol in 1963 and sent to Woodham Brothers scrapyard in Barry, South Wales. It was rescued by members of the Great Western Society and sent to Didcot Railway Centre in 1971.

South Wales Mineral Railway

The Great Western Railway (GWR) 9400 Class is a class of 0-6-0 pannier tank steam locomotive, used for shunting and banking duties.The first ten 9400s were the last steam engines built by the GWR. After nationalisation in 1948, another 200 were built by private contractors for British Railways (BR). Most had very short working lives as the duties for which they were designed disappeared through changes in working practices or were taken over by diesel locomotives.

GWR tank locomotive number 5542 is a preserved Great Western Railway steam locomotive of the GWR 4575 Class. It is currently based on the Gloucestershire and Warwickshire Railway after a very rapid boiler overhaul at South Devon Railway during the winter of 2011-12.

The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company that linked London with the midlands, the south-west and west of England and most of Wales. In 1930 they had introduced 100 containers primarily for building materials.

April 1963 – December 1965

During the 1880s William Dean constructed a series of experimental locomotives to test various new ideas in locomotive construction for the Great Western Railway.

The Great Western Railway (GWR) 9400 Class is a class of 0-6-0 pannier tank steam locomotive, used for shunting and banking duties.The first ten 9400s were the last steam engines built by the GWR. After nationalisation in 1948, another 200 were built by private contractors for British Railways (BR). Most had very short working lives as the duties for which they were designed disappeared through changes in working practices or were taken over by diesel locomotives. Two locomotives survived into preservation, one as part of the National Collection.

GWR Iron Duke Class

Slaughter, Grüning & Co. and

Iron Duke Class

GWR 4120 Class

GWR Grange Class

Pendennis Castle is a GWR 4073 Class steam locomotive, preserved at the Didcot Railway Centre.

Great Western Railway 7800 Class No. 7827 Lydham Manor is a preserved British steam locomotive. It is currently (March 2013) owned by and based on the Dartmouth Steam Railway.The locomotive was built in December 1950. Its first shed allocation was at Chester. In March 1959, its shed allocation was moved to Oswestry. It conducted improved draughting tests in February 1954. In May 1965, it received its last shed allocation at Shrewsbury. No. 7827 was withdrawn in October 1965 and acquired by Woodham's of Barry, Wales, in May 1966. It was sold to Dart Valley Railway and left the scrapyard as the fifth departure from Barry in June 1970. No. 7827 was restored in 1973.It carried the Great Western Livery, which it would never have carried while in mainline service, as it was built two years after the end of the Great Western Railway (GWR). In 2011, Lydham Manor was reintroduced at the Churston Heritage Festival carrying British Rail all-black livery and bearing the temporary nameplates Torquay Manor for the festival.Lydham Manor has been on loan to other heritage railways/centres including, Didcot Railway Centre in 2010 before it was painted in BR black , South Devon Railway in a visit for September 2013, and then traveling to West Somerset Railway in October 2013 for the steam gala festival .

June 1962

GWR 7800 Class 7819 Hinton Manor

Great Western Railway (GWR) 4200 Class No. 4277 is a preserved British steam locomotive. In preservation it has carried the name Hercules.

GWR: D; BR: 5MT

GWR 7800 Class 7820 Dinmore Manor

Operational, mainline certified

Lot 316, Lot 377

C1'ht

GWR Castle class

* BR: 1P

June 1929

GWR 4100 Class

GWR 79 Class

The Great Western Railway (GWR) 5400 Class is a class of 0-6-0 pannier tank steam locomotive. They were similar in appearance to many other GWR tank engines but smaller than the ubiquitous GWR 5700 Class.The nominally Collett-designed 5400 Class had 5 ft 2 in (1.575 m) driving wheels for greater top speed with autocoaches, and were all fitted with the required remote control gear for working the push-pull autotrains. They had a modern cab and a larger bunker. They were frequently seen on inner suburban routes from Paddington.

Albert Hall; renamed Rood Ashton Hall

GWR 9700 Class

The Great Western Railway Premier Class 0-6-0 broad gauge steam locomotives for goods train work. This class was introduced into service between February 1846 and May 1847, and withdrawn between March 1866 and June 1872.These were the first locomotives built at Swindon railway works, albeit with boilers supplied to the company. They were larger than the existing Hercules Class but still with haycock fireboxes. Just six months after the last one left Swindon, production of the even larger Pyracmon Class had started.From about 1865, the Premier Class locomotives became part of the Fury Class, along with the Hercules Class locomotives.

GWR Leo class

Swindon Works, Great Western Railway

over buffers

GWR 5572

The GWR 5600 Class is a class of 0-6-2T steam locomotive built between 1924 and 1928. They were designed by C.B Collett for the Great Western Railway (GWR), and were introduced into traffic in 1924. After the 1923 grouping, Swindon inherited a large and variable collection of locomotives from historic Welsh railway companies, which did not fit into their standardisation programme. GWR boiler inspectors arrived en masse and condemned many of the original locomotives.

Steam from locomotive boiler

GWR 4000 class

GWR No. 12

ATC

GWR Atbara Class

GWR No. 1334

7802 Bradley Manor is a 7800 'Manor' Class 4-6-0 steam locomotive. Built by the Great Western Railway at its Swindon Works in January 1938 it had an operating life of 27 years being withdrawn in November 1965. Designed by Charles Collett, it is one of nine of the class to make it into preservation and is currently based on the Severn Valley Railway.

GWR Coal Goods

GWR Castle Class

GWR 4073 Class 5029 Nunney Castle is a Great Western Railway Castle Class steam locomotive. It was built at Swindon Works in 1934, and takes the name of Nunney Castle near Frome, Somerset. She was outshopped from Swindon Works on 28 May 1934. The locomotive was used in many publicity and "life on the railway" type of photographs. During the first day of the World War II Evacuations, the locomotive hauled trains carrying children being taken from London to the safety of the countryside. Nunney Castle was also used to haul the Royal Train in October 1957 from London Paddington station to Gloucester.

(or Iron Duke Class rebuilt)

original ,

GWR No. 12 is a Sentinel geared steam locomotive which was built for the Great Western Railway and delivered in 1926. Its Sentinel works number is 6515. It was equipped to work train vacuum brakes and to provide steam heat for passenger trains. Initially, it was based at Swindon and used to work trains on the Malmesbury branch. Later, it worked at Brentford Goods Yard.

Collett

GWR 93 Class

The Great Western Railway (GWR) 7800 Class or Manor Class is a class of 4-6-0 steam locomotive. They were designed as a lighter version of the GWR Grange Class, giving them a wider Route Availability. Like the 'Granges', the 'Manors' used parts from the GWR 4300 Class Moguls but just on the first batch of twenty. Twenty were built between 1938 and 1939, with British Railways adding a further 10 in 1950. They were named after Manors in the area covered by the Great Western Railway. Nine are preserved.

A 5400 Class locomotive at Old Oak Common TMD

–50

Standard No. 4

British Railways Class 78xx No. 7802 'Bradley Manor' at Kidderminster Town on the Severn Valley Railway

Bickmarsh Hall

Wood at Plymouth c.1890

GWR Number 2

GWR 5400 Class

February 1930

The Great Western Railway Prince Class 2-2-2 broad gauge steam locomotives for passenger train work. This class was introduced into service between August 1846 and March 1847, and withdrawn between January and September 1870.From about 1865, the Prince Class locomotives became part of the Priam Class, along with the Fire Fly Class locomotives.

GWR 4900 Class No. 4942 Maindy Hall is a 4-6-0 steam locomotive of the Great Western Railway (GWR) 4900 Class. It was built in 1929 at Swindon.

GWR No. 36

Scrapped

Under construction, Llangollen Railway

The GWR 455 Class, also called the "Metropolitan" or "Metro" Tanks, was a series of 140 2-4-0 tank locomotives built for the Great Western Railway, originally for their London suburban services, including running on the underground section of the Metropolitan Railway, the source of their nickname. Later on the class was seen on many other parts of the GWR system. Sixty "Metro" Tanks were built, from 1868 onwards, during the lifetime of their designer, Joseph Armstrong.

GWR 7800 Class 7821 Ditcheat Manor

GWR FM (Swindon)

two outside

GWR Hurricane locomotive

The Great Western Railway (GWR) 4300 Class is a class of 2-6-0 (mogul) steam locomotives, designed by G.J. Churchward for mixed traffic duties. Three hundred and forty two examples were built from 1911-1932.

The first 19 locomotives ordered by Isambard Kingdom Brunel for the Great Western Railway included two unusual Haigh Foundry locomotives.Snake and Viper were built at the Haigh Foundry in 1838 with 14.75-by-18-inch (375 mm × 457 mm) cylinders and the driving wheels geared 2:3 in order to keep the cylinder stroke speed low while allowing high track speed, in line with Brunel's specifications. Within a couple of years they had been rebuilt with 13 in × 18 in (330 mm × 457 mm) and conventional drive. They were later converted to 2-2-2T tank locomotives, possibly when they were sent to work the South Devon Railway, and at some time fitted with 6 ft 0 in (1,829 mm) driving wheels and 15 in × 18 in (381 mm × 457 mm) cylinders.

January 1939

GWR 2-8-0T Class 42xx No. 4277 Hercules at Paignton Station on the Dartmouth Steam Railway.

GWR 6959 Class 6984 Owsden Hall

GWR Haigh Foundry locomotives

GWR Premier Class

Caesar

Great Western Railway, Swindon

GWR 4900 Class 4936 Kinlet Hall

7828 Odney Manor is a Great Western Railway locomotive part of the Manor Class. It is one of 9 locomotives preserved from the class which originally had 30. Built by British Railways in 1950 it was withdrawn from service in 1965 before being moved to Woodham Brothers scrapyard in Barry, South Wales. Since 2004 it has been owned by the West Somerset Railway, being based there since 1995. In 2011 the locomotive was renamed Norton Manor in honour of the local Marine Base near the West Somerset Railway.

GWR Prince Class

December 1965
7808 Cookham Manor is a Great Western Railway 7800 'Manor' Class steam locomotive. It was built in 1938 at Swindon Works, withdrawn from service in December 1965 and purchased directly from British Railways for preservation by John Mynors, a member of the Great Western Society, in 1965-66. Cookham Manor was the only locomotive in the 'Manor' Class to have been bought directly from BR. Initially it was stored at Ashchurch, until moving to Didcot in August 1970.It was said to be considered highly by the crews that operated her, and unusually for her class, the locomotive was fitted with a larger 4,000-imperial-gallon (18,000 L; 4,800 US gal) water tender.The locomotive saw considerable main line use whilst in preservation, but it is currently in static preservation status awaiting a major overhaul at Didcot Railway Centre.The locomotive cost £3,986 excluding the tender when it was built in 1938, and had travelled 913,744 miles (1,470,528 km) on 28 December 1963.

August 1929

Great Western

Great Western Railway 9400 class

GWR 91 Class

unclassed

The Great Western Railway steam locomotive no. 4965 Rood Ashton Hall is a 4-6-0 Hall class locomotive. It is preserved at Tyseley Locomotive Works. The engine operates in its Great Western Railway green livery, and performs regularly on the Shakespeare Express, operated by Vintage Trains, between Birmingham and Stratford-upon-Avon, as well as various excursions.

diameter x stroke

GWR 7400 Class

GWR Gooch Standard Goods class

In the engine shed at Didcot.

GWR: E

GWR: Special

GWR 378 Class 0-6-0

* Type: Inside
* Length:

The Banking Class were five 0-6-0ST Brunel gauge steam locomotives for assisting ("banking") trains up inclines on the Great Western Railway. Designed by Daniel Gooch, they were tank engine versions of his Standard Goods class, and mainly built at Swindon Works.The last one was withdrawn in 1889.

Original 62 withdrawn and scrapped, new one built in 2005

GWR Lot Nos. 365, 382–387

GWR: D,

GWR Autotrain

GWR Hall Class

GWR 4200 Class 4277 Hercules

GWR D

The Great Western Railway (GWR) 6000 Class or King is a class of 4-6-0 steam locomotive designed for express passenger work and introduced in 1927. They were the largest locomotives built by the GWR (apart from the unique Pacific (The Great Bear). The class was named after kings of the United Kingdom and of England, beginning with the then reigning monarch, King George V, and going back through history.

The first 19 locomotives ordered by Isambard Kingdom Brunel for the Great Western Railway included six 2-2-2 Charles Tayleur locomotives. They were built by Charles Tayleur at his Vulcan Foundry but were unsuccessful and rapidly supplemented by the Star Class locomotives ordered by Daniel Gooch once he had been appointed as the Locomotive Engineer.

Churchward

Premier

July 1934–December 1939

The Great Western Railway Pyracmon Class were 0-6-0 broad gauge steam locomotives for goods train work. This class was introduced into service between November 1847 and April 1848, and withdrawn between August 1871 and December 1873. Bacchus was added to the class in May 1849 (and withdrawn in November 1869), having been constructed to broadly the same design from spare parts.The Pyracmon class were a development of the preceding Premier class, the first locomotives to be constructed at the new Swindon railway works. They differed in having the Premiers haycock firebox replaced by Gooch's stronger round-topped firebox with its wrapper raised above the boiler barrel.From about 1865, Bacchus became part of the Fury Class, while the remaining locomotives became part of the Caesar Class.

Lots: A3, B3, E3

GWR: Blue

July 2012

GWR Hercules Class

GWR Standard Number 12

normal
*

The Great Western Railway Hawthorn Class were 2-4-0 broad gauge steam locomotives for passenger train work. This class was introduced into service in 1865, a development of the Victoria Class.Twenty locomotives were ordered from Slaughter, Grüning and Company and given the names of famous engineers.

Between 1854 when the Shrewsbury and Chester and Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railways were absorbed by the Great Western Railway, and 1864 when he moved south to Swindon Works, Joseph Armstrong occupied the post of the GWR's Locomotive Superintendent, Northern Division, at Wolverhampton Works.

GWR FM Bristol

GWR 4073 Class 5043 Earl of Mount Edgcumbe

George Armstrong

BR 4MT

GWR 4300 Class

GWR 5205 Class

Hinderton Hall is a 4-6-0 GWR 4900 Class locomotive preserved at Didcot Railway Centre. It was designed by Collett in 1928, built at Swindon in 1931 as the 101st of its class.The locomotive spent most of its working life in the West Country. It was withdrawn from Bristol in 1963 and sent to Woodham Brothers scrapyard in Barry, South Wales. It was rescued by members of the Great Western Society and sent to Didcot Railway Centre in 1971. It saw considerable main line service (including being involved in the GWR 150 celebrations in 1985), as well as in the centre. It is currently on static display and is waiting for an overhaul.

The Firefly was a class of broad gauge 2-2-2 steam locomotives used for passenger services on the Great Western Railway. The class was introduced into service between March 1840 and December 1842, and withdrawn between December 1863 and July 1879.Following the success of the Star class locomotives introduced to the Great Western Railway by Daniel Gooch, Gooch set to work to develop a new class based on North Star, but with larger boilers.

Avonside Engine Company

GWR 4900

coal

Three preserved, remainder scrapped.

GWR Hurricane

GWR 4073 Class 7029 Clun Castle

GWR 6959 Class 6998 Burton Agnes Hall

Hawthorn

GWR 4900 Class 5967 Bickmarsh Hall

GWR Badminton Class

The 517 Class were small 0-4-2T tank engines designed by George Armstrong for local passenger work on the Great Western Railway. They were built at Wolverhampton Works and were outshopped between 1868 and 1885. They were built in thirteen lots commencing with 517–528 and ending with 1477–1488 in 1884–1885.

Inside cylinders: Walschaerts

Great Western Railway 4300 Class

+ , total

GWR 455 Class at Bugle in Cornwall, around 1910

7828 Odney Manor

GWR King Class

The GWR 378 Class (also known as the Sir Daniel Class) was a class of 30 standard-gauge 2-2-2 steam locomotives on the Great Western Railway in Britain. They were introduced in 1866, and the class remained intact until 1898. Several were altered to the 0-6-0 wheel arrangement, and the last was withdrawn from service in 1920.

GWR 633 Class

The Great Western Railway Leo Class 2-4-0 was a class of broad gauge steam locomotives for goods train work. This class was introduced into service between January 1841 and July 1842, and withdrawn between September 1864 and June 1874.These locomotives were the first for the railway with coupled wheels as they were designed as goods locomotives, but they later found use on passenger trains too. All the class were altered to 2-4-0ST saddle tanks.The locomotives were built by three different workshops, each with its own naming convention. The first three came from R and W Hawthorn and Company, who named them after strong animals. The next three were named after volcanoes by Fenton, Murray and Jackson, while the final twelve came from Rothwell and Company carrying the names of the twelve houses of the zodiac.

The GWR 4100 Class was a class of steam locomotives in the Great Western Railway (GWR) of the United Kingdom.The Badminton class express passenger 4-4-0 steam locomotives were introduced in 1897 as a development from the earlier Duke class.

GWR type 14

7808 Cookham Manor is a Great Western Railway 7800 'Manor' Class steam locomotive. It was built in 1938 at Swindon Works, withdrawn from service in December 1965 and purchased directly from British Railways for preservation by John Mynors, a member of the Great Western Society, in 1965-66. Cookham Manor was the only locomotive in the 'Manor' Class to have been bought directly from BR.

GWR 5800 Class

Earl Bathurst is a preserved Castle class locomotive. The locomotive is run by the Didcot Railway Centre.It was originally built as Drysllwyn Castle in May 1936. Its first shed allocation was Swansea Landore. Renamed Earl Bathurst in August 1937; the name coming from a de-named GWR Dukedog Class. It was moved to Neath shed in April 1961 before its final move to Llanelly in February 1963. It was withdrawn May 1963 after completing 1,300,000 miles. It was acquired by Woodham Brothers scrapyard in Barry, South Wales in October 1963.The locomotive was bought by John Mynors from the scrap yard and was sold following his death.The locomotive was sold to the Great Western Society at Didcot Railway Centre and left as the 4th departure from Barry in March 1969. It was restored in 1979 and regained its former name – Drysllwyn Castle – although it occasionally carries the name of Earl Bathurst. The Earl Bathurst ran from Swansea to London Paddington on St David's Day (1 March 2007) carrying fare-paying passengers (see photo of the event). The Earl Bathurst is still on display at the Didcot Railway centre.It was repainted into BR livery but has now been withdrawn due to the expiry of its boiler certificate. It is unlikely to be overhauled for a while due to the current overhauls of GWR 4073 Castle Class 4079 Pendennis Castle and GWR 6000 King Class 6023 King Edward II that will provide the centre with two GWR express locomotives in traffic.

GWR 7800 Class 7812 Erlestoke Manor

Betton Grange

Four, two inside, two outside

GWR 6998 Burton Agnes Hall

GWR Hall Class 5952 Cogan Hall was built at Swindon in December 1935. As a mixed traffic engine it handled both passenger duties and freight duties. Its first shed allocation was the Penzance depot in Cornwall. In August 1950 it moved to Old Oak Common. During this time it was fitted with a three row superheater. In March 1959 it moved again to the Worcester depot. Its last shed allocation was to Cardiff East Dock before it was withdrawn from duties in June 1964.The engine ended up at Woodham Brothers scrapyard in Barry, South Wales, and thus survived into preservation unlike some of its other class mates. Purchased by a private individual, Ken Ryder, 5952 Cogan Hall was the 136th departure from Barry in September 1981. It is one of only 11 of its class that survived into preservation.Stored initially at the GWSR at Toddington and later at the Cambrian Railways Trust, the intention was to restore it at their Oswestry site. However, in 2010, it was sold to the Betton Grange Society, who intend to use its bogie and tender for the new-build loco. In the long-term, the Society hopes to restore the engine at its new home on the Llangollen Railway, once work on the Grange is complete.

GWR 517 Class on a mixed train, 19th century

GWR 4000 Class 4003 Lode Star

GWR, Swindon Works
Sir Daniel

GWR 4900 Class 4965 Rood Ashton Hall

GWR Metro Tank

Dübs and Company

GWR: Double Red

GWR King class

March 1931

Wootton Hall

GWR 3700 Class no. 3440 "City of Truro"

GWR 8750 Class

None
GWR Wolverhampton Works

GWR County Class

GWR Achilles Class

GWR 55 Class

GWR Blue

GWR FM (Bristol)

GWR 9466

County

GWR 9400 Class

GWR 4073 Class 5051 Earl Bathurst

Between 1854 when the Shrewsbury and Chester and Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railways were absorbed by the Great Western Railway, and 1864 when he moved south to Swindon Works, Joseph Armstrong occupied the post of the GWR's Locomotive Superintendent, Northern Division, at Wolverhampton Works. For ten years the task of providing new locomotives for the GWR's newly acquired standard gauge lines fell jointly to Armstrong and to his superior Daniel Gooch, the railway's principal Locomotive Superintendent who was based at Paddington.This article deals with the new locomotives designed by Armstrong during his Wolverhampton years. For his later, Swindon locomotives, see the individual articles as listed in the table of GWR Locomotives at the foot of the article.

GWR Group PLC

GWR 5600 Class

GWR Leo Class

GWR Coal Engines

Ditcheat Manor

The Hercules Class were four broad gauge steam locomotives for the Great Western Railway. They were the first 0-6-0 locomotives, being built in 1842 by Nasmyth, Gaskell and Company. They were all withdrawn in 1870 and 1871.From about 1865, the Hercules Class locomotives became part of the Fury Class, along with the Premier Class locomotives.

7819 Hinton Manor

Lydham Manor

May 1929

The GWR 5101 Class or Large Prairie was a class of 2-6-2T steam locomotives of the Great Western Railway.

Churchward's Rough Riders

Great Western Railway 7800 Class No. 7827 Lydham Manor is a preserved British steam locomotive. It is currently (March 2013) owned by and based on the Dartmouth Steam Railway.The locomotive was built in December 1950. Its first shed allocation was at Chester. In March 1959, its shed allocation was moved to Oswestry. It conducted improved draughting tests in February 1954. In May 1965, it received its last shed allocation at Shrewsbury. No.

Lots 214, 221

GWR 2-8-0T Class 4200 No. 4270 hauls a goods train at Arley on the Severn Valley Railway

Argus, built by Fenton Murray and Jackson

GWR 6000 Class 6024 King Edward I

Two preserved, remainder scrapped

Preserved

South Devon Railway

November 1965

Yes

GWR Bristol

GWR 7 Class

GWR Joseph Armstrong locomotives (Wolverhampton)

GWR 6000 Class King Edward I

May 1963

after 1st overhaul

GWR FM Wiltshire

GWR: D; BR: 4MT

GWR Manor Class no. 7822 Foxcote Manor at Llangollen railway station 1988

Dumbleton Hall is a British Collett-built GWR 4900 Class (Hall Class) 4-6-0 steam locomotive, built in Swindon in March 1929. Its first shed allocation was at Old Oak Common. In August 1950, the next shed allocation was Reading, and in March 1959 it was allocated to Newton Abbot. The locomotive's last shed allocation was Bristol Barrow Rd. Dumbleton Hall was withdrawn from British Railways service in December 1965 and sold to Woodham Brothers scrapyard in Barry, South Wales.It was sold to BTSR, Buckfastleigh and left as the 82nd departure from Barry in June 1976 before being fully restored in 1988. It is currently stored out of use at Buckfastleigh on the South Devon Railway, awaiting overhaul. The engine is in its Great Western Railway green livery.

* GWR Swindon Works -
* Robert Stephenson and Company -

GWR 4900 Class 4953 Pitchford Hall

The GWR 4073 Class 5043 Earl of Mount Edgcumbe is a steam locomotive of the GWR 'Castle' Class, built in March 1936. It was originally named Barbury Castle, and was renamed Earl of Mount Edgcumbe in September 1937. It had a double chimney and 4 row superheater fitted in October 1958.Its first shed allocation was Old Oak Common; from June 1952 to February 1956 it was based at Carmarthen, before returning again to Old Oak Common.

Roberts at Swindon after withdrawal

William Dean

GWR Bicycle Class

GWR Pyracmon Class

January 1964

GWR 7 (Armstrong) Class

GWR Queen Class

preserved, undergoing restoration

–97

GWR Hawthorn Class

Metropolitan tank locomotive beneath Praed Street. looking towards Edgware Road

GWR6800 Class 6880 Betton Grange

Dimensions as built

GWR 7800 Class 7808 Cookham Manor

GWR 4575 Class 5572

GWR 4900 Class 4-6-0 No. 4979 Wootton Hall is a steam locomotive. It was built at Swindon, February 1930, and was one of 258 Hall class steam locomotives constructed.Its first shed allocation was Plymouth Laira and after 32 years of service it ended up at Oxford.

GWR 4073 Class 7028 Cadbury Castle

GWR 8100 Class

Furness Railway Trust

GWR 5101

GWR 7808 Cookham Manor

Over buffers:
The Great Western Railway (GWR) 5400 Class is a class of 0-6-0 pannier tank steam locomotive. They were similar in appearance to many other GWR tank engines but smaller than the ubiquitous GWR 5700 Class.The nominally Collett-designed 5400 Class had 5 ft 2 in (1.575 m) driving wheels for greater top speed with autocoaches, and were all fitted with the required remote control gear for working the push-pull autotrains. They had a modern cab and a larger bunker.

No. 2007 awaiting scrapping at Swindon 1950

GWR 7800 Class 7802 Bradley Manor

GWR 4073 Class 5080 Ogmore Castle

GWR No. 12 is a Sentinel geared steam locomotive which was built for the Great Western Railway and delivered in 1926. Its Sentinel works number is 6515. It was equipped to work train vacuum brakes and to provide steam heat for passenger trains. Initially, it was based at Swindon and used to work trains on the Malmesbury branch. Later, it worked at Brentford Goods Yard. These trials were not a great success and the locomotive was withdrawn in December 1926 and returned to Sentinel in January 1927.

Dinmore Manor Locomotive Limited

Which shed?

GWR Duke Class

GWR 4200 Class 4277

Lode Star is the only remaining GWR 4000 Class locomotive. It is preserved at the National Railway Museum in York, UK.Lode Star was designed by George Jackson Churchward and was built in 1907, one of the first locomotives in its class to be built.The design of the locomotive was influenced by de Glehn, a French engineer. He used four cylinders on his locomotives, which Churchward copied. By using four cylinders it meant the locomotives were both powerful and fast.Lode Star survived into the British Railways era, and was finally withdrawn in 1951. At this point it had covered 2,005,898 miles. Lode Star was preserved at the Great Western Museum in Swindon from 1962, and was transferred to the National Railway Museum in York in 1992, where it was a static non-working exhibit. In 2010 Lode Star was moved to Steam Museum in Swindon, as a static non-working exhibit. In November 2015 it was moved back to the National Railway Museum.

The GWR 455 Class, also called the "Metropolitan" or "Metro" Tanks, was a series of 140 2-4-0 tank locomotives built for the Great Western Railway, originally for their London suburban services, including running on the underground section of the Metropolitan Railway, the source of their nickname. Later on the class was seen on many other parts of the GWR system. Sixty "Metro" Tanks were built, from 1868 onwards, during the lifetime of their designer, Joseph Armstrong. His successor William Dean regarded the class so highly that he would add a further 80, the final 20 examples appearing as late as 1899. The "Metros" were all built at Swindon Works, in nine lots of ten or 20 engines each.

Sources for technical data:

Hirondelle

Erlestoke Manor Fund

GWR 4073 Class 4079 Pendennis Castle

GWR 6959 Class 7903 Foremarke Hall

GWR FM (Bristol & Bath)

GWR 4575 class

B1 n2t

King-class

Foxcote Manor Society

Outside cylinders: derived from inside cylinders via rocking bars

GWR Swindon Works ;

GWR 69 Class

GWR 4073 Class 5029 Nunney Castle is a Great Western Railway Castle Class steam locomotive. It was built at Swindon Works in 1934, and takes the name of Nunney Castle near Frome, Somerset. She was outshopped from Swindon Works on 28 May 1934. The locomotive was used in many publicity and "life on the railway" type of photographs. During the first day of the World War II Evacuations, the locomotive hauled trains carrying children being taken from London to the safety of the countryside.

GWR 6959 Class 6989 Wightwick Hall

Wolverhampton, GWR

GWR 3800 Class

June 1964

GWR 4073 Class 5043 Banbury Castle

The GWR 5600 Class is a class of 0-6-2T steam locomotive built between 1924 and 1928. They were designed by C.B Collett for the Great Western Railway (GWR), and were introduced into traffic in 1924. After the 1923 grouping, Swindon inherited a large and variable collection of locomotives from historic Welsh railway companies, which did not fit into their standardisation programme. GWR boiler inspectors arrived en masse and condemned many of the original locomotives. The systematic destruction of many examples of locomotives, most still in serviceable condition, followed. Of the Taff Vale Railway, many engines continued to operate up to the 1950s, but today only two locomotives survived, TVR 'O1' No.28, the last-surviving Welsh-built engine, and TVR 'O2' No.85.Two hundred GWR 5600 class replacement locomotives were built and remained in service until withdrawn by British Railways between 1962 and 1965. Nine of the class have survived into preservation.

dia x stroke

GWR 517 class

GWR 4900 Class 4920 Dumbleton Hall