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GWR Swindon Class
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by Great Western Railway· from 1865· class of 14 British broad-gauge 0-6-0 locomotives
what is it?
The Great Western Railway Swindon Class were 14 broad gauge 0-6-0 locomotives built for goods train work. The first entered service in 1866 and the last was withdrawn in 1892. They were sold to the Bristol and Exeter Railway in the 1870s but returned to the Great Western Railway in 1876 when the companies were amalgamated.
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 161 years ago, in 1865.
- Served for 27 years (1865–1892).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1865
- in service from
- 1865
- retired
- 1892
- status
- retired
- number built
- 14
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- Great Western Railway, Swindon Works
- designer
- Joseph Armstrong
- operators
- Great Western Railway, Bristol and Exeter Railway
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 2,140 mm Brunel broad gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 0-6-0
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q5515055, Wikipedia: GWR Swindon Class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.