The 4600 Class was a 4-4-2 T steam locomotive built by the Great Western Railway in 1913. It was one of the GWR standard classes with two outside cylinders. It was designed as light suburban locomotive, based on the successful 4500 class 2-6-2T engines.

The 4600 Class was a 4-4-2T steam locomotive built by the Great Western Railway in 1913. It was one of the GWR standard classes with two outside cylinders. It was designed as light suburban locomotive, based on the successful 4500 class 2-6-2T engines.

The 5700 was the GWR standard type of pannier tank locomotive. They were designed for shunting and light goods work. They were built as replacements for earlier saddle tank and pannier tank locomotives dating back to the 1880s.

Data from "4-4-2 Tank Locomotive, Great Western Railway", Locomotive Magazine, Volume XX [20] (15 May 1914), p. 120.This small Mogul tank had the trademark c...

The 4600 Class was a 4-4-2T steam locomotive built by the Great Western Railway in 1913. It was one of the GWR standard classes with two outside cylinders.

Class 4600 (Locobase 20347) Data from "4-4-2 Tank Locomotive, Great Western Railway", Locomotive Magazine, Volume XX [20] (15 May 1914), p. 120. This small Mogul tank had the trademark coned boiler and Belpaire firebox of most GWR engines.

2025年2月25日 · GWR Branch Tank Number 4600, GWR only ever built one loco of this class, it was built in 1918 and only lasted untill 1936 when it was scrapped, and repleace by the 31xx class on the GWR branch lines, the loco is a smaller version of he GWR 22xx Country Tank.

Great Western Railway steam locomotives, 5700 class details, 4600 - 4699

Swindon 4600. This one-off design was not successful. Intended as a potential successor to the Metro tanks for branch and light suburban work, 4600 emerged in 1913 and had 5'8" drivers. In the event, it proved too heavy and inflexible for branchline use, but not as fast as the larger County tanks on suburban work or as powerful as the large ...

On 1 January 1948 all existing GWR locomotives became the property of the new British Railways (BR); unlike other companies stock, all the steam locomotives continued to carry their GWR numbers. BR continued to build GWR designs (the 1000, 1500, 1600, 4073 and 6959 classes in particular) for a while.