#0283
GWR Queen Class
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by Swindon Works· from 1873· class of 21 British 2-2-2 locomotives
1 photo from Wikimedia Commons · credits & licences
- 1. GWR Queen Class Ans 05373-0692: Unknown photographer· CC0
what is it?
The Queen Class was Joseph Armstrong's last class of 2-2-2 express engine for the Great Western Railway, larger than the Sir Daniel Class of about a decade earlier. They worked express trains for almost 30 years, and were in effect the predecessors of the larger Singles of William Dean.
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 153 years ago, in 1873.
- Served for 41 years (1873–1914).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1873–1875
- in service from
- 1873
- retired
- 1914
- status
- retired
- number built
- 21
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- Swindon Works
- operators
- Great Western Railway
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- wheel arrangement
- 2-2-2
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q5515049, Wikipedia: GWR Queen Class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.