GWR Prince Class
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The Great Western Railway
Prince Class 2-2-2
broad gauge steam locomotive
s for passenger train work. This class was introduced into service between August 1846 and March 1847, and withdrawn between January and September 1870.
From about 1865, the Prince Class locomotives became part of the Priam Class, along with the Fire Fly Class
locomotives.
Great Western Railway
The Great Western Railway was a British railway company that linked London with the south-west and west of England and most of Wales. It was founded in 1833, received its enabling Act of Parliament in 1835 and ran its first trains in 1838...
Prince Class 2-2-2
Whyte notation
The Whyte notation for classifying steam locomotives by wheel arrangement was devised by Frederick Methvan Whyte and came into use in the early twentieth century encouraged by an editorial in American Engineer and Railroad Journal...
broad gauge steam locomotive
Locomotive
A locomotive is a railway vehicle that provides the motive power for a train. The word originates from the Latin loco – "from a place", ablative of locus, "place" + Medieval Latin motivus, "causing motion", and is a shortened form of the term locomotive engine, first used in the early 19th...
s for passenger train work. This class was introduced into service between August 1846 and March 1847, and withdrawn between January and September 1870.
From about 1865, the Prince Class locomotives became part of the Priam Class, along with the Fire Fly Class
GWR Firefly Class
The Firefly was a class of broad gauge 2-2-2 steam locomotives used for passenger services on the Great Western Railway. The class was introduced into service between March 1840 and December 1842, and withdrawn between December 1863 and July 1879....
locomotives.
Locomotives
- Moose (1846 - 1870)
- Named after the animal, the elkMooseThe moose or Eurasian elk is the largest extant species in the deer family. Moose are distinguished by the palmate antlers of the males; other members of the family have antlers with a dendritic configuration...
.- Peri (1846 - 1870)
- A periPeriIn Persian mythology, which constitutes the mythology of not just Persians but all Iranian peoples, peris are descended from fallen angels who have been denied paradise until they have done penance. In earlier sources they are described as agents of evil; later, they are benevolent...
is a fallen angel in Persian mythology.- Prince (1846 - 1870)
- Named in honour of Albert, Prince Consort to Queen Victoria.
- Queen (1847 - 1870)
- Named in honour of Queen VictoriaVictoria of the United KingdomVictoria was the monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland from 20 June 1837 until her death. From 1 May 1876, she used the additional title of Empress of India....
- Sylph (1847 - 1870)
- A sylphSylphSylph is a mythological creature in the Western tradition. The term originates in Paracelsus, who describes sylphs as invisible beings of the air, his elementals of air...
is an invisible, mythological creature.- Witch (1846 - 1870)
- This locomotive was fited with slightly larger 7 ft 6 in driving wheels. It was named after a female practitioner of witchcraft, a witch.