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GWR 455 Class
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by Swindon Works· from 1868· class of 140 British 2-4-0T locomotives
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3 photos from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. Bugle 455 Class: Unknown author Unknown author· Public domain
- 2. Image from page 324 of "Locomotive engineering - a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock" (1892): Internet Archive Book Images· CC0
- 3. Thurstaston station (postcard): Anonymous Unknown author· Public domain
what is it?
The GWR 455 Class, also called the "Metropolitan" or "Metro" Tanks, was a series of 140 2-4-0T locomotives built for the Great Western Railway, originally for their London suburban services, including running on the underground section of the Metropolitan Railway, the source of their nickname. Later on the class was seen on many other parts of the GWR system. Sixty "Metro" Tanks were built, from 1868 onwards, during the lifetime of their designer, Joseph Armstrong.
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 158 years ago, in 1868.
- Served for 80 years (1869–1949).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1868–1899
- in service from
- 1869
- retired
- 1949
- status
- retired
- number built
- 140
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- Swindon Works
- designer
- Joseph Armstrong
- operators
- Great Western Railway, Western Region of British Railways
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- wheel arrangement
- 2-4-0
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q5514970, Wikipedia: GWR 455 Class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.