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GWR 103 President
🇫🇷 France ·built by Société Alsacienne de Constructions Mécaniques· from 1905· class of 2 four-cylinder De Glehn compound 4-4-2 locomotives
what is it?
President, number 103, and Alliance, number 104 were locomotives of the Great Western Railway. George Jackson Churchward, Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Great Western Railway, was given authority to purchase three French de Glehn-du Bousquet four-cylinder compound locomotives, in order to evaluate the benefits of compounding. The first locomotive, No.
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 121 years ago, in 1905.
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1905
- in service from
- 1905
- status
- retired
- number built
- 2
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇫🇷 France
- builders
- Société Alsacienne de Constructions Mécaniques
- designer
- G.J. Churchward
- operators
- Great Western Railway
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- wheel arrangement
- 4-4-2
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q5514895, Wikipedia: GWR 103 President (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.