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GWR 5700 Class

Index GWR 5700 Class

The Great Western Railway (GWR) 5700 Class, or 57xx class, is a class of 0-6-0 pannier tank steam locomotive, built between 1929 and 1950. [1]

69 relations: Arley railway station, Armstrong Whitworth, Bachmann Branchline, Beyer, Peacock and Company, Birkenhead Mollington Street TMD, Blaenau Ffestiniog Central railway station, Bodmin and Wenford Railway, British Rail Class 98, Brynmawr and Blaenavon Railway, Brynmawr railway station, Buckinghamshire Railway Centre, Characters in The Railway Series, Chesham branch, Chinnor and Princes Risborough Railway, Cinderford New railway station, Cirencester branch line, Condensing steam locomotive, Dartmouth Steam Railway, Dean Forest Railway, Didcot Railway Centre, Duck the Great Western Engine, Ely Valley Railway, Festiniog railway station, Frederick Hawksworth, George Armstrong (engineer), Great Western Railway Power and Weight Classification, GWR 0-6-0PT, GWR 1016 Class, GWR 1813 Class, GWR 2721 Class, GWR 5400 Class, GWR 5600 Class, GWR 9400 Class, Keighley and Worth Valley Railway, Kerr, Stuart and Company, Kidderminster Town railway station, Laira Traction & Rolling Stock Maintenance Depot, List of Llangollen Railway rolling stock, List of locomotives saved from Woodham Brothers scrapyard, List of rolling stock preserved on the Severn Valley Railway, List of rolling stock preserved on the South Devon Railway, Locomotives of the Great Western Railway, Maentwrog Road railway station, Manod railway station, Merthyr, Tredegar and Abergavenny Railway, Nantybwch railway station, North British Locomotive Company, Pontypool and Blaenavon Railway, Rolling stock of the Bodmin and Wenford Railway, Rolling stock of the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway, ..., Severn Valley Railway, Southall Railway Centre, Steam locomotives of British Railways, Teigl Halt railway station, The Engine House, The Railway Children (1970 film), Trawsfynydd Camp railway station, Trawsfynydd Lake Halt railway station, Trawsfynydd railway station, Tyseley Locomotive Works, Vintage Trains, W. G. Bagnall, West Coast Railways, West Somerset Railway, Widened Lines, Wrexham and Minera Railway, Yorkshire Engine Company, 1929 in rail transport, 1971 in rail transport. Expand index (19 more) »

Arley railway station

Arley railway station is a station on the Severn Valley Railway heritage line in Worcestershire, situated just over the River Severn from the village of Upper Arley; a footbridge crosses the river to link the station to the village.

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Armstrong Whitworth

Sir W G Armstrong Whitworth & Co Ltd was a major British manufacturing company of the early years of the 20th century.

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Bachmann Branchline

Bachmann Branchline is an English 00 gauge model railway manufacturer.

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Beyer, Peacock and Company

Beyer, Peacock and Company was an English railway locomotive manufacturer with a factory in Gorton, Manchester.

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Birkenhead Mollington Street TMD

Birkenhead Mollington Street was a former Traction Maintenance Depot located at Mollington Street in Birkenhead, England, on the Birkenhead Dock Branch railway.

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Blaenau Ffestiniog Central railway station

On 10 September 1883 the Bala and Festiniog Railway (B&FR) and the Festiniog Railway (FR) opened what would nowadays be called an interchange station in Blaenau Ffestiniog, Merionethshire, Wales.

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Bodmin and Wenford Railway

The Bodmin & Wenford Railway (BWR) is a heritage railway, based at Bodmin in Cornwall, England.

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British Rail Class 98

TOPS Class 98 has been used to cover all steam locomotives used on the mainline in Britain, but also has a particular usage for the three Vale of Rheidol Railway-design 2-6-2T locomotives that remained in the ownership of British Rail (BR) after the end of mainline steam traction in August 1968.

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Brynmawr and Blaenavon Railway

The Brynmawr and Blaenavon Railway was a railway line in South Wales, within the historic boundaries of Brecknockshire and Monmouthshire, originally built in 1866 and immediately leased to the London and North Western Railway to transport coal to the Midlands via the Heads of the Valleys line.

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Brynmawr railway station

Brynmawr railway station was a station which served Nantyglo, in the Welsh county of Brecknockshire.

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Buckinghamshire Railway Centre

Buckinghamshire Railway Centre is a railway museum operated by the Quainton Railway Society Ltd.

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Characters in The Railway Series

Many characters have appeared in the books of The Railway Series by the Rev. Wilbert Awdry and Christopher Awdry, and in the spin-off television series, Thomas and Friends.

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Chesham branch

The Chesham branch is a single-track railway branch line in Buckinghamshire, England, owned and operated by the London Underground.

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Chinnor and Princes Risborough Railway

The Chinnor & Princes Risborough Railway is a preserved standard gauge heritage railway with its headquarters and (at present) only station at Chinnor in South Oxfordshire, England.

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Cinderford New railway station

Cinderford New railway station is a disused railway station that was opened by the former Severn and Wye Railway to serve the mining town of Cinderford.

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Cirencester branch line

The Cirencester branch line was a five mile long single-track branch railway line that ran from Kemble railway station on the Great Western Railway Golden Valley Line to via two intermediate stations,, and and contained the highest rail crossing point on the River Thames.

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Condensing steam locomotive

A condensing steam locomotive is a type of locomotive designed to recover exhaust steam, either in order to improve range between taking on boiler water, or to reduce emission of steam inside enclosed spaces.

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Dartmouth Steam Railway

The Dartmouth Steam Railway, formerly known as the Paignton and Dartmouth Steam Railway, is a heritage railway on the former Great Western Railway branch line between and in Devon, England.

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Dean Forest Railway

The Dean Forest Railway is a long heritage railway that runs between Lydney and Parkend in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire.

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Didcot Railway Centre

Didcot Railway Centre is a former Great Western Railway engine-shed and locomotive stabling point located in Didcot, Oxfordshire, England, which today has been converted into a railway museum and preservation engineering site.

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Duck the Great Western Engine

Duck the Great Western Engine is a fictional steam engine from The Railway Series by the Rev. W. Awdry and the spin-off television series Thomas & Friends.

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Ely Valley Railway

The Ely Valley Railway (EVR) was a broad gauge railway company in South Wales, which opened a mineral line between Llantrisant station on the South Wales Railway main line and pits at Mwyndy and Penrhiwfer in 1860.

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Festiniog railway station

Festiniog railway station served the village of Llan Ffestiniog, Gwynedd, Wales.

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Frederick Hawksworth

Frederick William Hawksworth (10 February 1884 – 13 July 1976), was the last Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Great Western Railway (Great Britain) (GWR).

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George Armstrong (engineer)

George Armstrong (5 April 1822 – 11 July 1901) was in charge of standard gauge steam locomotives for the Great Western Railway at Stafford Road Works, Wolverhampton from 1864 to 1897.

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Great Western Railway Power and Weight Classification

From 1920, the cab side of Great Western Railway (GWR) steam locomotives bore a letter on a coloured disc, which enabled staff to quickly assess the capabilities of locomotives without the need to check tables of data.

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GWR 0-6-0PT

The GWR 0-6-0PT (Pannier Tank), is a type of steam locomotive built by the British Great Western Railway with the water tanks carried on both sides of the boiler, in the manner of panniers.

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GWR 1016 Class

The 1016 Class consisted of sixty double framed 0-6-0 saddle tank locomotives designed by George Armstrong and built at the Wolverhampton Works of the Great Western Railway between 1867 and 1871.

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GWR 1813 Class

The Great Western Railway's 1813 Class was a series of 40 0-6-0 side-tank engines built at Swindon Works in two lots of 20 engines each.

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GWR 2721 Class

The GWR 2721 Class was a class of 0-6-0 saddle tank steam locomotives.

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GWR 5400 Class

The Great Western Railway (GWR) 5400 Class is a class of 0-6-0 pannier tank steam locomotive.

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GWR 5600 Class

The GWR 5600 Class is a class of 0-6-2T steam locomotive built between 1924 and 1928.

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GWR 9400 Class

The Great Western Railway (GWR) 9400 Class is a class of 0-6-0 pannier tank steam locomotive, used for shunting and banking duties.

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Keighley and Worth Valley Railway

The Keighley and Worth Valley Railway is a branch line that served mills and villages in the Worth Valley and is now a heritage railway line in West Yorkshire, England.

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Kerr, Stuart and Company

Kerr, Stuart and Company Ltd was a locomotive manufacturer from Stoke-on-Trent, England.

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Kidderminster Town railway station

Kidderminster Town is a railway station situated in the town of Kidderminster, Worcestershire, England.

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Laira Traction & Rolling Stock Maintenance Depot

Laira T&RSMD is a railway Traction & Rolling Stock Maintenance Depot situated in Plymouth, Devon, England.

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List of Llangollen Railway rolling stock

This is a complete list of rolling stock at Llangollen Railway, a preserved railway in Llangollen, North Wales.

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List of locomotives saved from Woodham Brothers scrapyard

Below is a list of the locomotive types saved at Woodham Brothers scrapyard, Barry Island, Wales.

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List of rolling stock preserved on the Severn Valley Railway

The rolling stock preserved on the Severn Valley Railway is used to operate trains on the Severn Valley Railway (SVR), a heritage railway in Shropshire and Worcestershire, England.

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List of rolling stock preserved on the South Devon Railway

The South Devon Railway is a heritage railway in Devon, England.

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Locomotives of the Great Western Railway

The first Locomotives of the Great Western Railway (GWR) were specified by Isambard Kingdom Brunel but Daniel Gooch was soon appointed as the railway's Locomotive Superintendent.

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Maentwrog Road railway station

Maentwrog Road railway station was on the Great Western Railway's Bala Ffestiniog Line in Gwynedd, Wales.

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Manod railway station

Manod railway station served the village of Manod which then stood on the southern edge of Blaenau Ffestiniog in Gwynedd, Wales.

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Merthyr, Tredegar and Abergavenny Railway

The Merthyr, Tredegar and Abergavenny Railway, also known as the Heads of the Valleys line, was a railway line which operated between 1860 and 1958 between the Monmouthshire town of Abergavenny and the Glamorgan town of Merthyr Tydfil in South East Wales.

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Nantybwch railway station

Nantybwch railway station was a station on the London and North Western Railway's Heads of the Valleys line serving the village of Nantybwch in the Welsh county of Monmouthshire.

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North British Locomotive Company

The North British Locomotive Company (NBL, NB Loco or North British) was created in 1903 through the merger of three Glasgow locomotive manufacturing companies; Sharp, Stewart and Company (Atlas Works), Neilson, Reid and Company (Hyde Park Works) and Dübs and Company (Queens Park Works), creating the largest locomotive manufacturing company in Europe and the British Empire.

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Pontypool and Blaenavon Railway

The Pontypool and Blaenavon Railway (Rheilffordd Pont-y-pŵl a Blaenafon) is a volunteer-run heritage railway in South Wales, running trains between a halt platform opposite the Whistle Inn public house (famed for its collection of miners' lamps) southwards to the town of Blaenavon via a two-platform station at the site of former colliery furnace of the Big Pit National Coal Museum.

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Rolling stock of the Bodmin and Wenford Railway

This article is about the Rolling stock of the Bodmin and Wenford Railway.

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Rolling stock of the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway

The Rolling stock of the Keighley and Worth Valley Railway is used on the preserved Keighley and Worth Valley Railway, a branch line that served mills and villages in the Worth Valley and is now a heritage railway line in West Yorkshire, England.

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Severn Valley Railway

The Severn Valley Railway is a heritage railway in Shropshire and Worcestershire, England.

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Southall Railway Centre

Southall Railway Centre is a railway heritage centre at Southall in west London, near to Southall railway station and the Grand Union Canal.

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Steam locomotives of British Railways

The steam locomotives of British Railways were used by British Railways over the period 1948–1968.

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Teigl Halt railway station

Teigl Halt was a solely passenger railway station which served the rural area of Cwm Teigl, south of Blaenau Ffestiniog, Wales.

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The Engine House

The Engine House is an education centre at Highley station on the Severn Valley Railway.

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The Railway Children (1970 film)

The Railway Children is a 1970 British drama film based on the novel of the same name by E. Nesbit.

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Trawsfynydd Camp railway station

Trawsfynydd Camp railway station, sometimes referred to as Trawsfynydd Military station served the Trawsfynydd Artillery range at Bronaber, south of Trawsfynydd in Gwynedd, Wales.

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Trawsfynydd Lake Halt railway station

Trawsfynydd Lake Halt was a solely passenger railway station near the northeastern tip of Llyn Trawsfynydd, Gwynedd, Wales.

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Trawsfynydd railway station

Trawsfynydd railway station served the village of Trawsfynydd, Gwynedd, Wales.

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Tyseley Locomotive Works

Tyseley Locomotive Works, formerly the Birmingham Railway Museum is the engineering arm of steam railtour promoter Vintage Trains based in Birmingham, England.

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Vintage Trains

Vintage Trains is an operator of heritage railtours in the United Kingdom.

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W. G. Bagnall

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West Coast Railways

West Coast Railways (WCR), is a railway spot-hire company and charter train operator based at Carnforth MPD in Lancashire.

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West Somerset Railway

The West Somerset Railway (WSR) is a heritage railway line in Somerset, England.

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Widened Lines

The Widened Lines (also known as the City Widened Lines), is the former name for the Moorgate Line which currently forms part of Thameslink Core Route between St Pancras and within central London.

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Wrexham and Minera Railway

The Wrexham and Minera Railway or Wrexham and Minera Branch was a railway line in North Wales between the town of Wrexham, the village of Brymbo where it served the Brymbo Steelworks, and the lead mines and limeworks at Minera.

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Yorkshire Engine Company

The Yorkshire Engine Company (YEC) was a small independent locomotive manufacturer in Sheffield, England.

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1929 in rail transport

No description.

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1971 in rail transport

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GWR 8750 Class, GWR 9700 Class.

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GWR_5700_Class

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