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Until 2017, GWR operated the vast majority of its long-distance services with a fleet of 58 InterCity 125 High Speed Train sets, [78] each consisting of eight Mark 3 coaches sandwiched between two Class 43 locomotives. GWR operated the largest InterCity 125 fleet, owning five sets outright; the rest were leased from Angel Trains and Porterbrook.
In 1935, excursion stock with open saloons instead of compartments was introduced, followed by the 26 "Super-Saloon"-scale Centenary stock for the Cornish Riviera Express. From 1936 onwards, all new GWR main line stock had large windows to each compartment and entry-exit via the corridor and end vestibules, but it had taken Collett six years to ...
GWR 4575 Class 2-6-2 T: Currently undergoing restoration. GWR Green. Llangollen Great Western Locomotive Group. 1928 FW ~ No. 80072 BR Standard Class 4 2-6-4T: Built at Brighton in November 1953. First restored in 2009, boiler ticket expired June 2019. Overhaul began in June 2021. BR Lined Black with Late Crest. 80072 Steam Locomotive Co. 1953 FW
A GWR seat at Yatton The pedestrian crossing at Cockwood Steps, on the South Devon Main Line, retains a gate with GWR spear-type railings. The GWR's memory is kept alive by several museums such as STEAM – the museum of the GWR (in the old Swindon railway works), and the Didcot Railway Centre, where there is an operating broad-gauge train.
Rated at 20 long tons (22.4 short tons; 20.3 t), these had been twice the size of typical wagons of the period, but it was not until 1923 that the company invested heavily in coal wagons of this size and the infrastructure necessary for unloading them at the railway-owned docks; these were known as "Felix Pole" wagons after the GWR's General ...
Image 4612 0-6-0 PT: GWR 5700: 1942 2001 An example of the GWR's most numerous class of 'Pannier tanks', 4612 was withdrawn in 1965 and sold to the Woodham Brothers for scrap. It was sold to provide spare parts for another preserved locomotive but was eventually sold to the Bodmin Railway Trust and restored.