No. 9111 King George – GWR – Super Saloon
29th July 2020
About The Great Western built eight Super Saloons, or Ocean Liner Saloons, between 1931 and 1932 for use between London Paddington and Plymouth for the
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No. 9116 Duchess of York – GWR – Super Saloon
29th July 2020
About The Great Western built eight Super Saloons, or Ocean Liner Saloons, between 1931 and 1932 for use between London Paddington and Plymouth for the
No. 249 – GWR – Family Saloon
26th July 2020
About Coach No 249 is one of the few GWR vehicles built with what is described as a ‘royal clerestory roof’ that is with a
No. 790 – GWR – Dynamometer Car
25th July 2020
About No 790 is GWR chief mechanical engineer, George Jackson Churchward’s dynamometer car and was built in 1901 at Swindon at a cost of £890.
1369 – GWR – 0-6-0PT
8th October 2019
The 1366 class of GWR locomotives was designed by C. B. Collett. They were built to replace ageing Cornwall Mineral Railway locomotives used for shunting around dock yards.
3205 – GWR – 0-6-0
9th August 2019
About 3205 was built by the Great Western Railway at Swindon Works in 1946 and is the sole surviving member of the 120-strong 2251 class
3803 – GWR – 2-8-0
3rd August 2019
About A member of the 2884 class, 2-8-0 no 3803 was completed at the Great Western Railway’s Swindon factory in January 1939 at a cost
4920 – GWR – 4-6-0 – Dumbleton Hall
2nd July 2019
About Dumbleton Hall is one of the earliest examples of C. B. Collett’s hugely successful and numerous mixed traffic ‘Hall’ class of locomotives. In all, 259
5526 – GWR – 2-6-2T
6th June 2019
The 45xx and 4575 classes were favourites for branch line work over most of the Great Western Railway territory. Devon and Cornwall were no exceptions and virtually all the branch lines in the two counties saw engines of one or other of the two types right up until the end of steam on British Railways (Western Region), or in many cases, until the closure of the lines in question.
5542 – GWR – 2-6-2T
6th June 2019
The 45xx and 4575 classes were favourites for branch line work over most of the Great Western Railway territory. Devon and Cornwall were no exceptions and virtually all the branch lines in the two counties saw engines of one or other of the two types right up until the end of steam on British Railways (Western Region), or in many cases, until the closure of the lines in question.
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