GWR 4000 Class
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The Great Western Railway 4000 or Star are a class of 4-cylinder 4-6-0 passenger steam locomotives designed by George Jackson Churchward for the Great Western Railway in 1906 and introduced from early
4003 Lode Star
First series No. 4003 Lode Star, at Tyseley Locomotive Works
No. 4025 - after the name Italian Monarch was removed in 1940
No. 4034 Queen Adelaide
GWR 4073 Class
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The 4073 or Castle Class are 4-6-0 type steam locomotives of the Great Western Railway, built between 1923 and 1950. They were designed by the railway's Chief Mechanical Engineer, Charles Collett, for
GWR 4000 Class
…fastest express trains and those requiring the longest distance between stops. They gradually became displaced to secondary services by members of the Castle and King classes in the late 1920s and 1930s. Survivors continued to perform well until the mid-1950s. The 4000 class became a template for two later…
4079 Pendennis Castle at Didcot Railway Centre in 2023
4079 Pendennis Castle at Chester General station in March 1967
Castle class locos 5051 Earl Bathurst and 5029 Nunney Castle climb St Germans bank
5043 Earl of Mount Edgcumbe is one of two preserved Castles to be fitted with a double chimney