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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

January 1 – The classification and renumbering of all the rolling stock of the three constituent railways that formed South African Railways in 1910 is implemented...

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

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

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...

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...

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

motors (SRM) were self-propelled carriages operated by the Great Western Railway in England and Wales from 1903 to 1935. They incorporated a steam locomotive...

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...

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) 2251 Class or Collett Goods Class was a class of 0-6-0 steam tender locomotives designed for medium-powered freight. They...

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...

notation for the classification of steam locomotives, 0-8-0 represents the wheel arrangement of no leading wheels, eight powered and coupled driving wheels...

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

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...

(HST) is the TOPS classification used for the InterCity 125 High Speed Train (formerly Classes 253 and 254) diesel-electric power cars, built by British...

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

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, almost...

"Big Emma" by railwaymen and railway enthusiasts. The Lickey Incline is the steepest sustained main-line railway incline in Great Britain. The function of...