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GWR Metropolitan Class
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by Kitson and Company· from 1862· class of 22 British broad gauge 2-4-0T locomotives
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Metropolitan Railway, Praed Street Junction: Samuel J. Hodson ( Jackson, Alan (1986) London's Metropolitan Railway , David & Charles ISBN : 0-7153-8839-8 . ) Hodson, Samuel John, born 1831 - died 1908 V&A Collections accessed 20 May 2012· Public domain
what is it?
The Great Western Railway Metropolitan Class 2-4-0T broad gauge steam locomotives with condensing apparatus were used for working trains on the Metropolitan Railway. The equipment was later removed, though the class continued to work suburban trains on GWR lines in London. The class was introduced into service between June 1862 and October 1864, and withdrawn between June 1871 and December 1877.
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 164 years ago, in 1862.
- Served for 15 years (1862–1877).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1862–1864
- in service from
- 1862
- retired
- 1877
- status
- retired
- number built
- 22
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- Kitson and Company, Vulcan Foundry, Swindon Works
- designer
- Daniel Gooch
- operators
- Great Western Railway
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 2,140 mm Brunel broad gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 2-4-0
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q5515040, Wikipedia: GWR Metropolitan Class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.