#0020
GWR Sharp, Roberts locomotives
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by Sharp, Stewart and Company· from 1838· class of 3 British broad-gauge 2-2-2 locomotives
what is it?
The first 19 locomotives ordered by Isambard Kingdom Brunel for the Great Western Railway included three 2-2-2 Sharp, Roberts locomotives. They were built by Sharp, Roberts and Company and the most successful of the early designs, two lasting until the 1870s. The original 14-by-15-inch (356 mm × 381 mm) cylinders were replaced from 1844 by larger 14-by-18-inch (356 mm × 457 mm) or 15-by-18-inch (381 mm × 457 mm) ones.
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 188 years ago, in 1838.
- Served for 34 years (1838–1872).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1838
- in service from
- 1838
- retired
- 1872
- status
- retired
- number built
- 3
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- Sharp, Stewart and Company
- operators
- Great Western Railway
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 2,140 mm Brunel broad gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 2-2-2
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q5515050, Wikipedia: GWR Sharp, Roberts locomotives (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.