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GS&WR Class 52
🇮🇪 Ireland ·built by Inchicore Works· from 1883· class of 20 Irish 4-4-0 locomotives
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- 1. Train at Abbeyleix: National Library of Ireland on The Commons· No restrictions
what is it?
The Great Southern and Western Railway (GS&WR) Class 52 consisted of twenty 4-4-0 express passenger tender locomotives designed by John Aspinall. Aspinall also built a further fifteen similar but slightly larger locomotives of GS&WR Class 60. The locomotives were built soon after Aspinall took up his post, and were to an extent a derivation of an Alexander McDonnell 2-4-0 design incorporating the same boiler but having a leading bogie.
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.
- Served for 76 years (1883–1959).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1883–1895
- in service from
- 1883
- retired
- 1959
- status
- retired
- number built
- 20
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇮🇪 Ireland
- builders
- Inchicore Works
- designer
- J Aspinall
- operators
- Great Southern and Western Railway, Great Southern Railways, Córas Iompair Éireann
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,600 mm Irish broad gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 4-4-0
- length
- 8.2 m
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q60785474, Wikipedia: GS&WR Class 52 (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.