List Of Broad Gauge (7 Feet) Railway Locomotive Names
This is a list of the names of broad gauge railway locomotives built in the United Kingdom during the heyday of that gauge (which ended in that country by 1892 with the final triumph of standard gauge). Throughout the history of railways many locomotives have been named (just as many have been numbered, and many have borne both a name and a number), but Britain's Great Western Railway, the prime exponent of the broad gauge, was noted for being an enthusiastic namer throughout its long existence, and perhaps less interested in numbering - although all locomotives carried numbers.
The name of the first locomotive of a batch was often the name by which the whole class was known, such as Fire Fly or Victoria.
As with other named locomotives, broad-gauge ones drew their names from a wide variety of sources. As well as the many names from Greek, Roman and other mythologies, locomotives were named after famous people, literature, flora, fauna, towns, and geographical features, as well as imagery suggestive of speed and power:
- Mythology – Banshee, Osiris, Peri, Python, Venus
- Famous people – Brunel, Dido, Euripides, Iron Duke, Victoria
- Literature – Ivanhoe, Mazeppa, Robin Hood, Ulysses
- Flora and fauna – Bee, Hawk, Lily, Shamrock, Zebra
- Towns – Bristol, Reading, Swindon, Wickwar, Windsor
- Geography – Exe, Hecla, Severn, Stromboli, Yeo
- Speed- and power-imagery – Comet, Fire Ball, Hurricane, Lightning, Rocket
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Key This list covers the 7 ft 0 1⁄4 in (2,140 mm) broad gauge locomotives of the following railways:
- BGR - Bristol and Gloucester Railway
- CCR - Carmarthen and Cardigan Railway
- GWR - Great Western Railway
- LVR - Llynvi Valley Railway
- NCJR - Newquay and Cornwall Junction Railway
- NDR - North Devon Railway
- SDR - South Devon Railway
- SWMR - South Wales Mineral Railway
- S&WR - Severn and Wye Railway
- TBR - Torbay and Brixham Railway
- WCR - West Cornwall Railway
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Famous quotes containing the words list, broad, railway, locomotive and/or names:
“Lastly, his tomb
Shall list and founder in the troughs of grass
And none shall speak his name.”
—Karl Shapiro (b. 1913)
“And she’s broad where a broad should be broad.”
—Oscar Hammerstein II (1895–1960)
“Her personality had an architectonic quality; I think of her when I see some of the great London railway termini, especially St. Pancras, with its soot and turrets, and she overshadowed her own daughters, whom she did not understand—my mother, who liked things to be nice; my dotty aunt. But my mother had not the strength to put even some physical distance between them, let alone keep the old monster at emotional arm’s length.”
—Angela Carter (1940–1992)
“A bill... is the most extraordinary locomotive engine that the genius of man ever produced. It would keep on running during the longest lifetime, without ever once stopping of its own accord.”
—Charles Dickens (1812–1870)
“And even my sense of identity was wrapped in a namelessness often hard to penetrate, as we have just seen I think. And so on for all the other things which made merry with my senses. Yes, even then, when already all was fading, waves and particles, there could be no things but nameless things, no names but thingless names. I say that now, but after all what do I know now about then, now when the icy words hail down upon me, the icy meanings, and the world dies too, foully named.”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)