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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.
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 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 ...
Unrebuilt Battle of Britain class No. 34072 257 Squadron, as preserved, pictured at Swanage, Dorset in 2019. Below are the names and numbers of the steam locomotives that comprised the Bulleid light pacifics, the West Country and Battle of Britain classes of locomotives that ran on the British Southern Railway network.
The following is a list of British Railways steam locomotives as of the end of 1967. With main line steam ending in August 1968, these are the ones that survived to the last year. By this stage, steam locomotive stock had been severely reduced from over 20,000 locomotives at nationalisation to fewer than 370.
List of Isle of Wight Steam Railway locomotives and rolling stock; List of rolling stock items in the UK National Collection; LMR 57 Lion; LMR 600 Gordon; LNWR 2-2-2 3020 Cornwall; Locomotion No. 1; Lyon, Hetton colliery railway
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 ...
Below are the names and numbers of the steam locomotives that comprised the LB&SCR Class A1/A1X, which ran on the London, Brighton and South Coast Railway, and latterly the Southern Railway network. The original names mainly denoted various places served by the LB&SCR.