#1253· GWR 4400
GWR 4400 Class
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by Swindon Works· from 1905· class of 11 two-cylinder 2-6-2T locomotives
2 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. GWR 4400 Small Prairie: unknown photographer or publisher of these British photographic post cards.· Public domain
- 2. Princetown Railway - King Tor, Staple Tor and Roos Tor. - Great Western Railway 4400 Class steam locomotive No. 4410: William Davies· CC0
what is it?
The Great Western Railway (GWR) 4400 Class was a class of 2-6-2T side tank steam locomotive.
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.
- 11 m long: about 2 cars parked nose to tail.
- Served for 50 years (1905–1955).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1905–1914
- in service from
- 1905
- retired
- 1955
- status
- retired
- number built
- 11
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- Swindon Works, Wolverhampton railway works
- designer
- George Jackson Churchward
- operators
- Great Western Railway, British Rail, Western Region of British Railways
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- wheel arrangement
- 2-6-2T
- length
- 11 m
- Dutch name
- GWR 4400
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q5514968, Wikipedia: GWR 4400 Class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.