showed the power classification, and the coloured disc showed the weight restriction. This system continued after the GWR became the Western Region of...

GWR had given way to BR Western Region, which numbered them 18000 and 18100. Great Western Railway Power and Weight Classification Ten 34xx Atbaras were...

superheater. With the introduction of Great Western Railway Power Classification in 1920, the power classification was "Special" (denoted by a black "+"...

Rain, Steam, and Speed – The Great Western Railway is an oil painting by the 19th-century British painter J. M. W. Turner. The painting was first exhibited...

STEAM – Museum of the Great Western Railway, also known as Swindon Steam Railway Museum, is housed in part of the former railway works in Swindon, England...

ever owned by the Cambrian Railways. In this form, they were to GWR Diagram A13, with power classification "A", and weight restriction "Yellow". Unlike...

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...

The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company that linked London with the southwest, west and West Midlands of England and most of Wales...

Engineer to the Great Western Railway Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1833-1837) Locomotive Superintendent Daniel Gooch (1837–1864) Joseph Armstrong (1864–1877)...

October 2021, a South Western Railway Class 159 unit, 159102, collided with Great Western Railway class 158 coupled units, 158762 and 158763, at Salisbury...

Curtis, and Kennedy for the London and North Western Railway. It was exhibited at The Great Exhibition in 1851 but was only moderately successful and no more...

The Great Western Main Line (GWML) is a main line railway in England that runs between London Paddington and Bristol Temple Meads. It connects to other...

multiples of the previous classifications. Non-Articulated steam: 1320 - 2-2-2-0 locomotive, based on the London and North Western Railway's Dreadnought Class...

The Great Western Railway (GWR) was incorporated by an act of Parliament in 1835 and nationalised on 1 January 1948. During this time it amalgamated with...

Great Western Railway accidents include several notable incidents that influenced rail safety in the United Kingdom. In common with other railway companies...

nationalisation in 1948, British Railways gave them the power classification 5MT. By the end of 1923 the Great Western Railway (GWR) was well served with express...

Kalmbach Publishing Co. OCLC 19985835. "Clearance and Weight Diagrams for Standard Locomotives". Railway Age. 65 (17): 745–746. October 25, 1918 – via Archive...

the classification of steam locomotives by wheel arrangement, 4-4-2 represents a configuration of a four-wheeled leading bogie, four powered and coupled...

The passenger coaches of the Great Western Railway (GWR) were many and varied, ranging from four and six-wheeled vehicles for the original broad gauge...

SD series locomotives provide more tractive effort and more even distribution of locomotive weight compared to the four axle GP series locomotives. SD9s...

Railway Centre is a railway museum and preservation engineering site in Didcot, Oxfordshire, England. The site was formerly a Great Western Railway engine...

The Great Western Railway War Memorial is a First World War memorial by Charles Sargeant Jagger and Thomas S. Tait. It stands on platform 1 at London...

duties on the network. The British Railways power classification of the Grange Class was 5MT, its GWR power class was D, and its route availability colour...

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. 342 were...

Great Western and Great Central Joint Railway was a railway built and operated jointly by the Great Western Railway (GWR) and Great Central Railway (GCR)...

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

The Great Western Railway's ships operated in connection with the company's trains to provide services to Ireland, the Channel Islands and France. Powers...

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 Grange...

The Great Western Railway (GWR) 1366 Class is a class of 0-6-0 pannier tank steam locomotives built in 1934. They were a useful design because of their...

incompatible technologies. The Great Western Railway adopted the broad gauge of 7 ft 1⁄4 in (2,140 mm) at the outset, while competing railway companies adopted the...