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DWWR 42
Irish Free State ·built by Beyer, Peacock and Company· from 1883· three Irish tank locomotives
what is it?
DW&WR 42 to 44, built in 1883, were a set of three 2-4-0T tank locomotives built by Beyer, Peacock & Company for the Dublin, Wicklow & Wexford Railway in 1883, and the first for the railway with side tanks. For their size they were considered to be very capable. In particular No.
who runs it
base stats
Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.
fun facts
- First built 143 years ago, in 1883.
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1883
- retired
- 1927
- status
- retired
- number built
- 3
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- Irish Free State
- builders
- Beyer, Peacock and Company
- designer
- William Wakefield
- operators
- Dublin and South Eastern Railway, Great Southern Railways
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,600 mm Irish broad gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 2-4-0T
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q65080811, Wikipedia: DWWR 42 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.