Great Western Locomotives on the Main Line. Scenes from an Edwardian Railway – Darke, Peter Finale Uitverkoop

With the final elimination of the broad gauge in the early 1890s, the Great Western Railway for the first time possessed a fleet of locomotives that was exclusively standard gauge. Under the auspices of George Armstrong, William Dean and George Jackson Churchward, a number of classic locomotive designs emerged from both Wolverhampton and Swindon works during the final decades of the 19th century. These included the ‘Dean Goods’ 0-6-0s, the ‘Star’ class 4-6-0s, the ‘City’ class 4-4-0s and the ‘County’ class …