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LNWR Renown Class
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by Crewe Works· from 1897· class of 70 two-cylinder simple 4-4-0 passnger locomotives rebuilt from Jubilee and Alfred the Great class locomotives
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. LNWR locomotive No. 1918 Renown: Unknown author Unknown author· Public domain
what is it?
The London and North Western Railway (LNWR) Renown Class was a class of 4-4-0 steam locomotives. They were rebuilds of F.W. Webb's 4-cylinder compounds of the Jubilee and Alfred the Great classes into 2-cylinder simple engines by George Whale, later continued by Charles Bowen-Cooke. The first to be rebuilt was number 1918 Renown in 1908.
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 129 years ago, in 1897.
- Served for 23 years (1908–1931).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1897–1903
- in service from
- 1908
- retired
- 1931
- status
- retired
- number built
- 1
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- Crewe Works
- designer
- George Whale
- operators
- London and North Western Railway, London, Midland and Scottish Railway
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 4-4-0
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q6459424, Wikipedia: LNWR Renown Class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.