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| x Blucher |
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Blücher was an early railway locomotive built in 1814 by George Stephenson for Killingworth Colliery.
Blücher was the first successful locomotive incorporating the following design features:
Blücher had the ability to pull a train of 30 tons at a...
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| x LNER Class A4 |
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The Class A4 is a class of streamlined 4-6-2 steam locomotive, designed by Nigel Gresley for the London and North Eastern Railway in 1935. Their streamlined design gave them high-speed capability as well as making them instantly recognizable, and...
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| x Railroad car |
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A railroad car or railway carriage is a vehicle on a rail transport system (railroad or railway) that is used for the carrying of cargo or passengers. Cars can be coupled together into a train and hauled by one or more locomotives. Passenger cars...
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| x GWR 4000 Class |
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A Star class locomotive was a particular type of steam locomotive of the Great Western Railway. The prototype was an experimental locomotive, North Star (originally given number 40), constructed with the 'Atlantic' 4-4-2 wheel arrangement for...
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| x GWR 4073 Class |
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The GWR 4073 Class or Castle class locomotives were a group of 4-6-0 steam locomotives of the Great Western Railway. They were originally designed by the railway's Chief Mechanical Engineer, Charles Collett, for working the company's express...
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| x GWR 111 The Great Bear |
The Great Bear, number 111, was a locomotive of the Great Western Railway. It was the first 4-6-2 Pacific locomotive used on a railway in the United Kingdom, and the only one of that type ever built by the GWR.
The Great Bear was built in 1908 to...
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| x Sans Pareil |
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Sans Pareil was a steam locomotive built by Timothy Hackworth which took part in the 1829 Rainhill Trials on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway, held to select a builder of locomotives. The name means, roughly, 'Without equal' in French.
While a...
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| x Union Pacific 737 |
Union Pacific Railway Engine No. 737 or UP 737 is a 4-4-0 steam locomotive. It is currently the oldest preserved Union Pacific steam locomotive. It was originally acquired by the Union Pacific Railroad in 1887. It is one of about 39 surviving...
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| x Track pan |
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A track pan (American terminology) or water trough (British terminology) is a device to enable a steam railway locomotive to replenish its water supply while in motion. It consist of a long trough filled with water, lying along a flat stretch of...
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| x LMS Princess Royal Class |
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The London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) Princess Royal Class is a class of an express passenger steam locomotive designed by William Stanier. They were Pacifics (i.e. had a 4-6-2 wheel arrangement). Thirteen examples were built at Crewe Works...
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| x LMS Princess Coronation Class |
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The Princess Coronation Class is a class of express passenger steam locomotives built by the London Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) and designed by William Stanier. They were an enlarged version of the LMS Princess Royal Class. Several examples...
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| x LMS Turbomotive |
The Turbomotive was a modified Princess Royal Class steam locomotive designed by William Stanier and built by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway in 1935. It used turbines instead of cylinders. It was later rebuilt as a conventional locomotive...
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| x LMS Jubilee Class |
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The London Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) Jubilee Class is a class of steam locomotive designed for mainline passenger work. 191 locomotives were built between 1934 and 1936. They were built concurrently with the LMS Stanier Class 5 4-6-0.
The...
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| x British Rail Class 10 |
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The British Rail Class 10 diesel locomotive was a variation on the Class 08 diesel-electric shunter in which a Blackstone diesel engine was fitted instead of one made by the English Electric company. Traction motors were by either the General...
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| x LNER Class A4 4468 Mallard |
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Number 4468 Mallard is a London and North Eastern Railway Class A4 4-6-2 Pacific steam locomotive built at Doncaster, England in 1938. While in other respects a relatively typical member of its class, it is historically significant for being the...
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| x British Rail Class 40 |
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The British Rail Class 40 is a type of British railway diesel locomotive. Built by English Electric between 1958 and 1962, and eventually numbering 200, they were for a time the pride of the British Rail early diesel fleet. Despite their initial...
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| x Driving Van Trailer |
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A Driving Van Trailer (DVT), sometimes referred to as Driving Luggage Van (DLV), is a purpose-built railway vehicle that allows the driver to operate a locomotive at the opposite end of a train. Trains operating with a DVT therefore do not require...
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| x GWR 3700 Class |
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The Great Western Railway 3700 Class, or City Class, locomotives were a series of twenty 4-4-0 steam locomotives, designed for hauling express passenger trains.
Ten of the twenty locomotives were rebuilt from Atbara Class engines, the first (number...
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| x British Rail Class 47 |
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The British Rail Class 47 (Originally Brush Type 4) is a class of British railway diesel-electric locomotive that was developed in the 1960s by Brush Traction. A total of 512 Class 47s were built at Crewe Works and Brush's Falcon Works, Loughborough...
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| x Brush Traction |
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Brush Traction is a manufacturer and maintainer of railway locomotives, part of the FKI group, based at Loughborough in Leicestershire, United Kingdom situated alongside the Midland Main Line.
In 1865, Henry Hughes, who was a timber merchant...
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| x British Rail Class 26 |
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The British Rail Class 26 diesel locomotives, also known as the BRCW Type 2, were built by the Birmingham Railway Carriage & Wagon Company (BRCW) at Smethwick in 1958-59. Forty seven examples were built, and the last were withdrawn from service in...
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| x British Rail Class 66 |
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The Class 66 is a six axle diesel electric freight locomotive developed in part from the British Rail Class 59, for use on the railways of the UK. Since its introduction the class has been successful and has been sold to British and other European...
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| x LMS Class 7F 0-8-0 |
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The London, Midland and Scottish Railway Fowler Class 7F steam locomotive was an update of the London and North Western Railway (LNWR) G2 Class 0-8-0. The class were sometimes known as 'Baby Austins', or Austin 7s, after a motor car that was...
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| x Stony Point railway line, Melbourne |
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The Stony Point line is a greater-metropolitan railway line in Melbourne, Australia. The line extends from the Frankston line and is part of the city's suburban passenger railway network, and is part of the Metcard integrated ticketing system (zone...
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| x Chief Mechanical Engineer |
Chief Mechanical Engineer and Locomotive Superintendent are titles applied by British, Australian, and New Zealand railway companies to persons in charge of building or maintaining locomotives. Here are some examples:
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| x Steeple Grange Light Railway |
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The Steeple Grange Light Railway is a narrow gauge railway at Wirksworth in Derbyshire, UK. It uses industrial locomotives and rolling stock from disused mines, quarries, and steelworks around the country.
The Steeple Grange is a 0.5 miles (0.80 km)...
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| x CIE 421 Class |
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The Córas Iompair Éireann 421 Class was a railway locomotive, built by the CIÉ at Inchicore Works between 1962–1963 and designed for branch line traffic use and shunting.
The 421 Class was a larger development of the earlier 401 Class, and were...
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| x CIE 101 Class |
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The Córas Iompair Éireann 101 Class locomotives, numbered B101-B112, were built in 1956 by the Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company. They were fitted with Sulzer 6LDA28 engines of 960 hp (720 kW), with four Metropolitan-Vickers MV157...
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| x CIE 121 Class |
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The Córas Iompair Éireann 121 class is a railway locomotive which was manufactured by General Motors Electro-Motive Division. These locomotives were in regular service on the Irish railway network until 2005.
The Class 121 locomotives were...
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| x MR 0-10-0 Lickey Banker |
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In 1919, the Midland Railway built a single 0-10-0 steam locomotive, No 2290 (later LMS (1947) 22290 and BR 58100). It was designed by James Clayton for banking duties on the Lickey Incline in Worcestershire (south of Birmingham), England. It became...
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| x British Rail D0260 |
D0260, named Lion, was a prototype Type 4 mainline diesel locomotive built in 1962 by the Birmingham Railway Carriage and Wagon Company, in association with Sulzer and Associated Electrical Industries, at their Smethwick works in Birmingham to...
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| x GNRI Class V |
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The Great Northern Railway (Ireland) V class steam locomotives were 3-cylinder compound locomotives of 4-4-0 wheel arrangement built in 1932 by Beyer, Peacock and Company.
The V class was intended for use on the GNR(I)'s most important passenger...
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| x GWR 4100 Class |
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In 1897 the Great Western Railway introduced the Badminton class express passenger 4-4-0 steam locomotives as a development from the earlier Duke class. The name Badminton having been chosen after the celebrated Hunt.
Further modifications to the...
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| x GWR 3252 Class |
The Great Western Railway Duke Class 4-4-0 steam locomotives for passenger train work. Twenty locomotives were later rebuilt as Bulldog Class locomotives. A further thirty locos were later rebuilt as Earl Class locomotives; the prototype (number...
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| x SR Class N15X |
The SR N15X class or Remembrance class were a design of British 4-6-0 steam locomotives converted in 1934 by Richard Maunsell of the Southern Railway from the large LB&SCR; L class 4-6-4 tank locomotives that had become redundant on the London...
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| x Donald and Douglas |
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Donald and Douglas are fictional steam locomotives from The Railway Series by The Rev. W. Awdry. They also appear in Thomas and Friends, the television series based on the books. They are twin Scottish engines.
The Fat Controller originally only...
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| x Skarloey |
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Skarloey is a fictional locomotive from The Railway Series by Rev. W. Awdry. He is one of the oldest engines on the Island of Sodor. Skarloey lives and works on the Skarloey Railway as Engine No.1.
Skarloey came to the Island in 1865. At first he...
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| x Rheneas |
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Rheneas is a fictional locomotive from The Railway Series by Rev. W. Awdry and the children's TV series Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends. He is one of the oldest engines on the Island of Sodor. Rheneas lives and works on the Skarloey Railway as...
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| x Sir Handel |
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Sir Handel is a fictional locomotive from The Railway Series by Rev. W. Awdry and its adaptation TV series, Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends. Sir Handel lives and works on the Skarloey Railway on the Island of Sodor as Engine No.3. Sir Handel is...
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| x GWR 4073 Class 5051 Earl Bathurst |
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Earl Bathurst is a Castle class locomotive. It still works, and 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...
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| x GWR 3800 Class |
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.
The biggest change was cosmetic...
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| x GWR 3200 Class |
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The Great Western Railway 3200 Class (or 'Earl' Class) was a design of 4-4-0 steam locomotive for passenger train work. The nickname for this class was Dukedog since the locomotives were composed of former Duke Class boilers on Bulldog Class frames....
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| x GWR 2900 Class |
The Great Western Railway 2900 or Saint Class were a class of 4-6-0 steam locomotives for passenger train work. Number 2925 Saint Martin was later rebuilt as the prototype Hall Class locomotive, and renumbered 4900.
Three prototype locomotives were...
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| x GWR 4073 Class 4079 Pendennis Castle |
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Pendennis Castle is a GWR 4073 Class locomotive, preserved at the Didcot Railway Centre.
The seventh the first lot of 10 Castles built in 1923/4, No.4079 “Pendennis Castle” was completed at Swindon Works in February 1924. She was allocated to Old...
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| x GWR Star Class |
The Great Western Railway Star Class 2-2-2 broad gauge steam locomotives for passenger train work. This class was introduced into service between November 1838 and November 1841, and withdrawn between April 1864 and September 1871.
By the time the...
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| x GWR Ariadne Class |
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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 often referred to as his Standard Goods locomotives.
The class was introduced into service...
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| x GWR Banking Class |
The Banking Class were five 0-6-0ST broad 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...
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| x GWR Caesar Class |
The Great Western Railway Caesar Class 0-6-0 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...
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| x GWR Pyracmon Class |
The Great Western Railway Pyracmon Class 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...
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| x GWR Premier 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...
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| x GWR Metropolitan Class |
The Great Western Railway Metropolitan Class 2-4-0T broad gauge steam locomotives with condensing apparatus for working trains on the Metropolitan Railway. This equipment was later removed, though the class continued to work suburban trains on GWR...
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| x GWR Victoria Class |
The Great Western Railway Victoria Class were 2-4-0 broad gauge steam locomotives for passenger train work. This class was introduced into service in two batches between August 1856 and May 1864. They were all withdrawn between 1876 and December...
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| x GWR Waverley Class |
The Great Western Railway Waverley Class were 4-4-0 broad gauge steam locomotives for express passenger train work.
The class was introduced into service between February and June 1855, and withdrawn between February 1872 and November 1876. From...
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| x GWR Bogie Class |
The Great Western Railway Bogie Class 4-4-0ST broad gauge steam locomotives for passenger train work. The first two locomotives of this class were introduced into service in August/September 1849, with the remainder following between June 1854 and...
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| x GWR Prince Class |
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...
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| x GWR Iron Duke Class |
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The Great Western Railway Iron Duke Class 4-2-2 was a class of broad gauge steam locomotives for express passenger train work.
The prototype locomotive, Great Western, was built as a 2-2-2 locomotive in April 1846, but was soon converted to a 4-2-2...
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| x GWR Hawthorn Class |
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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...
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| x GWR Sir Watkin Class |
The Great Western Railway Sir Watkin Class were 0-6-0T broad gauge steam locomotives with side tanks. They were designed for working goods trains through to the underground Metropolitan Railway in London. This class was introduced into service...
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| x GWR Swindon Class |
The Great Western Railway Swindon Class 0-6-0 broad gauge steam locomotives for goods train work. This class was introduced into service between November 1865 and March 1866, and withdrawn between June 1887 and the end of the GWR broad gauge in May...
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| x GWR Leo Class |
The Great Western Railway Leo Class 2-4-0 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...
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