GWR 3700 Class
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The Great Western Railway 3700 Class, or City Class, was a series of twenty 4-4-0 steam locomotives built for fast express passenger trains.
3433 City of Bath in 1909
"City of Truro" nameplate and worksplate recording the loco was the 2000th to be built at Swindon in April 1903. Plymouth North Road December 2004
GWR 3700 Class 3440 City of Truro is a 4-4-0 steam locomotive built in 1903 for the Great Western Railway at Swindon Works to a design by George Jackson Churchward. It was partially rebuilt in 1911 an
GWR 3700 Class
…in a rear-end collision with a passenger train at Yeovil Pen Mill station, Somerset. Two people were killed. The most famous locomotive in the class, 3440 City of Truro (later renumbered 3717), is reputedly the first steam locomotive to travel in excess of 100 mph, on 9 May 1904. It was the 2000th locomotive to be built…
GWR 3440 City of Truro
A comparison of a computer simulation of City of Truro's acceleration to 100 mph with Charles Rous Marten's quarter-mile stopwatch timings.
City of Truro returns to Truro