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The steam locomotives of British Railways were used by British Railways over the period 1948–1968. The vast majority of these were inherited from its four constituent companies, the " Big Four ". In addition, BR built 2,537 steam locomotives in the period 1948–1960, 1,538 to pre-nationalisation designs and 999 to its own standard designs.
Steam Locomotives Number & Name Wheel Arrangement Image Current Location Notes/Status No. 244 Ellesmere: 0-4-0 WT: National Museum of Scotland: Built in 1861 by Hawthorns and Company of Leith, for Howe Bridge Colliery until 1957, being the oldest working steam locomotive at the time. On display. [48] [49] [50]
Locomotives from the National Collection in the Great Hall of the UK National Railway Museum. The UK National Collection is a collection of around 280 historic rail vehicles (predominantly of British origin). The majority of the collection is kept at four national museums: National Railway Museum, York; Locomotion, Shildon
Locomotives of the Great Northern Railway (Great Britain) List of GWR standard classes with two outside cylinders; Locomotives of the Great Western Railway; GWR 1661 Class; GWR 1813 Class; GWR 1854 Class; GWR 3001 Class; GWR 3511 class; GWR Charles Tayleur locomotives; GWR Haigh Foundry locomotives; GWR Hurricane locomotive; GWR Mather, Dixon ...
This article lists the wide variety of locomotives and multiple units that have operated on Great Britain's railway network, since Nationalisation in 1948. British Rail used several numbering schemes for classifying its steam locomotive types and other rolling stock, before settling on the TOPS computer system in the late 1960s. TOPS has ...
Preserved at the National Railway Museum LMS Stanier Class 5 4-6-0 number 5000 is a preserved British steam locomotive . It is part of the National Railway Collection .
Below are the names and numbers of the steam locomotives that comprised the BR Standard Class 7, or 'Britannia' Class that ran on the British Railways network. They represented an attempt to standardise steam design for ease of maintenance and usage.
16564, newly built in 1928 Preserved No. 47324 on the East Lancashire Railway. The London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS) Fowler 3F 0-6-0 T is a class of steam locomotives, often known as Jinty.