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GWR 5400 Class
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by Great Western Railway· from 1930· class of 25 two-cylinder 0-6-0PT locomotives
what is it?
The Great Western Railway (GWR) 5400 Class was a class of 0-6-0 pannier tank steam locomotive. They were similar in appearance to many other GWR tank engines but smaller than the ubiquitous GWR 5700 Class. The nominally Collett-designed 5400 Class had 5 ft 2 in (1.575 m) driving wheels for greater top speed with autocoaches, and were all fitted with the required remote control gear for working the push-pull autotrains.
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 96 years ago, in 1930.
- Weighs about as much as 8 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 9.5 m long: about 2 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 32 years (1931–1963).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1930–1935
- in service from
- 1931
- retired
- 1963
- status
- retired
- number built
- 25
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- Great Western Railway, Swindon Works
- designer
- Charles Collett
- operators
- Great Western Railway, British Rail, Western Region of British Railways
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- wheel arrangement
- 0-6-0PT
- length
- 9.5 m
- weight
- 46.7 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q5514987, Wikipedia: GWR 5400 Class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.