Great Western Tank Tops

Steam engines being prepared for the gala day at Bridgnorth loco shed, Severn Valley Railway

Hercules Pulls Into Paignton Number of views as of 24th April 2019 = 1090. Hercules, a 4200 class, 2-8-0 tank locomotive pulls into Paignton station on the Dartmouth Steam Railway line in South Devon, England. Built in the Great Western Railway's Swindon works in 1920, locomotive number 4277 spent much of its working life hauling freight trains in South Wales. After 20 years lying dormant in a scrapyard near Barry, the engine was purchased and presumably restored but I don't know who by. It was sold to the Dartmouth Steam Railway in 2008 and now works the line under the name 'Hercules' between Paignton and Kingswear pulling a rake of 'chocolate and cream' Great Western livery coaches including a rather fine observation car (just behind t...

GWR steam loco Erlestoke Manor approaching Bewdley tunnel, Severn Valley Railway

Vintage British Travel Poster: Aberystwyth Wales via Great Western Railway

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Cowboy Great Dane Dog

Show your Erie spirit!

At sunset, on the plains of the American Wild West, a woman in a dress and fur shawl stands upon a hill looking out over the never ending sea of golden grass that stretches' to the horizon. The winds of the prairie whip over the landscape and cause the woman's dress to flap and picks up her hair to obscure her face. This western woman appears to be on the lookout for something or someone dangerous as she rests a rifle on her shoulder. This is one of those scenes that just popped in my head one day. I wanted to keep the environment rather minimalist, with just grass and sky making them go off forever into the distance. I added the woman along with a horse originally, but the horse seemed to obscure too much of the view, so I took...

A colour artwork of British Railways Ex-GWR small prairie tank locomotive class 4575, depicting number 5538 in BR black livery. This locomotive is under restoration at the Flour Mill, Dean Forest Railway.

Street riot. A cool, rebellious design. Great gift for men and women.

A colour artwork of British Railways Ex-GWR small prairie tank locomotive class 4575, depicting number 5552 in BR lined green livery. This locomotive is preserved at the Bodmin and Wenford railway.

Another great illustration from renowned artist Paul Cemmick's Country Music Artists Collection

Some of the most iconic places in Erie: Presque Isle, State Street, Horseshoe Bay, and Dobbins Landing. Not featured: The Plymouth.

Lady of Legend, August 2021 Locomotive number 2999 'Lady of Legend' is something of a rarity since none of the original Saint Class locomotives designed by George Jackson Churchward for the Great Western Railway were preserved. That being the case, the Didcot Railway Centre (Oxfordshire, England) began a project in the 1970s to build a new 'Saint'. Lady of Legend (completed in 2019 after many months of painstaking restoration work) is the end result. The frames and boiler were adapted from a Hall class locomotive 'Maindy Hall', recovered from Woodham Brothers scrapyard in Barry, South Wales. Date: 15th August 2021.

The Great Western Railway King George V steam Train MotorManiac

Buffalo Blizzard '22 there is snow stopping our Christmas is for anyone in Buffalo NY who is tough and knows how to ride out a snow storm. Buffalo New York Blizzard 2022, right in time for Christmas.

Trojan, Didcot, August 2021 "Trojan" is an 0-4-0 ST (Saddle Tank) locomotive, built in 1897 by the Avonside Engine Company of Bristol. She was originally operated by Messrs Dunn & Shute of Newport Town Dock and later by the Alexandra Docks Railway, also in Newport (South Wales). In 1923, the Alexandra Docks Railway was absorbed into the Great Western Railway and Trojan was allocated the number 1340. Withdrawn from service by the GWR in 1932, that certainly wasn't the end of the line for Trojan. She moved to the Netherseal colliery in Burton-on-Trent and then onto Alders of Tamworth in 1947, before arriving at Didcot in 1968. Several years of restoration followed, and the engine re-entered service in 2002 after a major boiler refit. Date:...

7822 Foxcote Manor An ex Great Western Railway 4-6-0 Manor Class locomotive, number 7822 'Foxcote Manor' runs around its rake of coaches to head up the 12:15 service from Bishops Lydeard to Minehead on the West Somerset Railway, the UK's longest heritage railway route. The locomotive was built in the Great Western Railway's Swindon works in 1950. After being withdrawn from service in 1965, it was rescued from Woodham Brothers scrapyard in Barry, South Wales in 1974 and subsequently restored to its former glory. Foxcote Manor is currently resplendent in all black British Railways livery. Date: 26th August 2018

A poster produced for Great Western Railway to promote rail travel to Devon, showing a quintessential rural coastal view, circa 1930s. - Please Note: These are old posters which means they were not always printed straight and level so please don't be surprised to see some slight angle differences around the edges of the adverts or some slight imperfections in the images. –

GWR 800 class high speed train at Paddington station, London

Great Western Railway Loco shed at night

Vintage GWR travel poster advertising Penzance Please note that this is a vintage advert and may have some minor imperfections, patina etc

GWR 7029 Clun Castle smokebox and chimney

A poster produced for Great Western Railway (GWR), London, Midland & Scottish Railway (LMS), London & North Eastern Railway (LNER) and Southern Railway (SR) to promote return tickets at single rates for dogs travelling with their owners from 1935. - Please Note: These are old posters which means they were not always printed straight and level so please don't be surprised to see some slight angle differences around the edges of the adverts or some slight imperfections in the images. -

*Steam Up at Devil's Bridge, February 2020* One for the rivet counters! Locomotive number 1213 lets off steam at the end of the line on the Vale of Rheidol railway, Ceredigion (Cardiganshire), Wales. The railway runs from Aberystwyth up to Devil's Bridge, climbing 700 feet in 12 miles. Date: 21st February 2020.

Vintage GWR travel poster The Glorious Thames. Please note that this is taken from an original vintage poster and there may be some imperfections, marks, patina etc

The GWR 5700 Class, or 57xx class, was a class of 0-6-0 pannier tank steam locomotive, built by the Great Western Railway (GWR) and British Railways (BR) between 1929 and 1950. With 863 built, they were the most prolific class of the GWR, and one of the most numerous classes of British steam locomotive. Converted from a photo taken at the National Railway Museum in York, UK in 2014

Part of the bridge which carries the Great Western Railway over the River Tamar between Devon and Cornwall.

GWR Prairie Tank Locomotive Number of views as of 4th March 2018 = 800. Took a little trip down memory lane a few weeks ago aboard a steam train hauled by this GWR 4575 class 'Prairie' tank locomotive on the Gloucestershire and Warwickshire railway from Toddington to Cheltenham Racecourse. Number 5542 was built in 1928 at a total cost of just over £3600, and entered service in the Gloucester area, before being transferred later to Bristol, Taunton, Newton Abbott and Westbury. Withdrawn in 1961 by British Railways after completing almost a million miles of service, the engine then spent 14 years rusting away in a scrapyard before being acquired for restoration. After many years of fundraising and painstaking work, number 5542 made a comeb...

King Edward II, Didcot, August 2021 Resplendent in its blue British Railways livery, King class locomotive number 6023, King Edward II was built in Swindon in 1930, and spent most of its working life hauling passenger trains between London Paddington and Devon. The 'Kings' were the most powerful locomotives to work the Great Western Railway routes. Sold for scrap in 1962, KIng Edward II then spent over 20 years in a South Wales scrapyard, before eventually ending up at Didcot Railway Centre, in Oxfordshire, where it was rebuilt in a major engineering project taking a further 20 years. The locomotive was regularly run at Didcot between 2011 and 2020, also visiting other heritage railways in the Midlands, Yorkshire, and Devon. The locomoti...

GWR 800 class high speed trains at Paddington station, London

Vintage GWR travel poster advert for Weston Super - Mare Please note that this is taken from an original vintage poster and there may be some imperfections, marks, patina etc.

Vintage GWR travel poster for Falmouth, cornwall

Vintage GWR Cambrian Coast Railway Map, Wales Please note that this is taken from a vintage advert and may have some minor imperfections, patina etc

*Class 43 departing Dawlish, September 2021* A Great Western Railway class 43 (High Speed Train) departs Dawlish station on the South Devon line between Exeter and Plymouth (England). The line was originally constructed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel as part of his 'atmospheric railway' project, which was eventually abandoned in favour of conventional trains due to technical problems. In 2014, a large section of the sea wall was washed away during stormy weather, and the future of the line was left in doubt. Thankfully however, engineers have done a great job of rebuilding the wall as can be seen from the photograph, and one of the UK's most scenic sections of railway has been preserved, for now at least. I was fortunate enough t...

Restoration Project This Great Western Railway 4900 'Hall Class' steam locomotive 'Dumbleton Hall' currently sits 'awaiting overhaul' at Buckfastleigh station on the South Devon Railway (Devon, England). The Hall Class locomotives were developed by Charles Collett, the GWR's chief mechanical engineer from 1922 to 1941. This particular locomotive, built in Swindon, Wiltshire in 1929 is named after a Tudor-style, manor house near Evesham (now a hotel). She was originally stationed at Old Oak Common (West London), and after spells based at Oxford, Cardiff and Reading she was transferred to the West Country. After completing close to 1.4 million track miles, the loco was withdrawn from service in 1965 and sold to a scrapyard in Barry, South ...