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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 ...
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.
British Railways standard classes (4 C, 16 P) G. Great Central Railway 4-6-0s (9 P) Pages in category "Standard-gauge steam locomotives of Great Britain"
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
The Patriot Class was a class of 52 express passenger steam locomotives built for the London Midland and Scottish Railway. The first locomotive of the class was built in 1930 and the last in 1934. The class was based on the chassis of the Royal Scot combined with the boiler from Large Claughtons earning them the nickname Baby Scots.
Withdrawal of locomotives generally did not take place until the great locomotive cull of British Railways in the period 1962–1966. A pair of "Black Fives" were the last steam locomotives to be run on British Railways in 1968, although since then there have been almost weekly charter runs for the enthusiast and tourist markets and the ...
This is the list of preserved British industrial steam locomotives. This list does not contain preserved Fireless locomotives, for a list of preserved Fireless locomotives, visit List of fireless steam locomotives preserved in Britain. Notable locomotives that weren't initially intended for industrial railway service but worked on them (e.g ...
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 ...