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The GWR autocoach (or auto-trailer) is a type of coach that was used by the Great Western Railway for push-pull trains powered by a steam locomotive.The distinguishing design feature of an autocoach is the driving cab at one end, allowing the driver to control the train without needing to be located in the cab of the steam locomotive.
The North Western Railway (NWR) is the main standard gauge rail network on the Island of Sodor. The railway's motto is "Nil Unquam Simile", which is Latin for "There's nothing quite like it". From nationalisation on 1 January 1948, until it was privatised, the railway was the North Western Region of British Railways (BR). From 1925 onwards, it ...
The trust is a collaboration between Middleton, the Embsay and Bolton Abbey Steam Railway and Beamish Museum. Most of the restoration work took place at the Embsay and Bolton Abbey Railway, and the trust were also given NER autocoach No. 3453 by the NER coach group, based at the North Yorkshire Moors Railway. The coach was fitted with suitable ...
A preserved GWR autotrain, running with the locomotive sandwiched between two driving coaches on the South Devon Railway.. The Autotrain was a type of passenger train used in the early 20th century, where the steam locomotive could be remotely controlled from the rear of the train.
The GWR 0-6-0PT (pannier tank), is a type of steam locomotive built by the British Great Western Railway with the water tanks carried on both sides of the boiler, in the manner of panniers. They were used for local, suburban and branch line passenger and goods traffic, for shunting duties, and as banker engines on inclines.
Length of 70 feet (21 m), when standard loading gauge carriages that were able to traverse the entire railway in Great Britain were a maximum of 57 feet (17 m) Width of 9 feet 6 inches (2.90 m), when standard loading gauge was a maximum of 9 feet (2.7 m). To keep within GWR loading gauge restrictions, the end doors were inset to the vestibules
Strong Oppose, these are two different topics (the characters of the TV series overlap somewhat but differ from the characters of the books in The Railway Series, which is directly covered and described in the lead of this article. Plus the two television series character pages are covered in the hatnote).
It was transferred to the Torbay Steam Railway but proved too small and was sold to the Bodmin Railway Trust. It was withdrawn from service in 2021 [1] and sold to the West Somerset Railway in 2024. [66] 30120 4-4-0: LSWR T9: 1899 2008-2017: One of the LSWR's 'Greyhound' 4-4-0 s that pulled express trains from Exeter to Wadebridge and Padstow.