#0070
Vale of Neath Railway 4-4-0ST locomotives
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by Robert Stephenson and Company· from 1851· two classes of 6+3 British broad-gauge 4-4-0ST locomotives
what is it?
The nine Vale of Neath Railway 4-4-0ST locomotives were broad gauge 4-4-0ST steam locomotives. The first entered service in 1851 and the last was withdrawn in 1872. The Vale of Neath Railway was amalgamated into the Great Western Railway on 1 February 1865, but the locomotives retained their old numbers.
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 175 years ago, in 1851.
- Served for 27 years (1851–1878).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1851
- in service from
- 1851
- retired
- 1878
- status
- retired
- number built
- 9
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- Robert Stephenson and Company
- designer
- Daniel Gooch
- operators
- Great Western Railway, Vale of Neath Railway
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 2,134 mm broad gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 4-4-0
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7909556, Wikipedia: Vale of Neath Railway 4-4-0ST locomotives (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.