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GWR 3300 Class
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by Swindon Works· from 1899· class of British 4-4-0 locomotives
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6 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. GWR 3338 Laira: Unknown author Unknown author· Public domain
- 2. Birmingham Express (46443878132): Trainiac from Australia· Public domain
- 3. GWR 3373 Sir William Henry: unknown photographer or publisher of these British photographic post cards.· Public domain
- 4. GWR 3417 Lord Mildmay of Flete: unknown photographer or publisher of these British photographic post cards.· Public domain
- 5. GWR No. 3355 'Camelot': Trainiac· Public domain
- 6. Image from page 293 of "Railway and locomotive engineering - a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock" (1901): Internet Archive Book Images· CC0
what is it?
The Bulldog and Bird classes were double-framed inside cylinder 4-4-0 steam locomotives used for passenger services on the Great Western Railway. The Bird Class were a development of the Bulldogs with strengthened outside frames, of which a total of fifteen were built. A total of 121 Bulldogs were built new, with a further twenty rebuilt from Duke Class locomotives.
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 127 years ago, in 1899.
- Weighs about as much as 9 African elephants (~6 t each).
- 17.1 m long: about 4 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 52 years (1899–1951).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1899–1910
- in service from
- 1899
- retired
- 1951
- status
- retired
- number built
- 136
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- Swindon Works
- designer
- William Dean
- operators
- Great Western Railway, British Rail, Western Region of British Railways
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- gauge
- 1,435 mm standard gauge
- wheel arrangement
- 4-4-0
- length
- 17.1 m
- weight
- 51.8 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q11300802, Wikipedia: GWR 3300 Class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.