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Steam locomotive introduction The Great Western Railway, known to GWR enthusiasts as God's Wonderful Railway, was Britain's oldest railway company until nationalisation in 1948. Created in 1835, the GWR began with a 7 feet 0¼ inch broad gauge line from Bristol to London and grew into a network covering the South West, the Midlands and Wales. On a grand scale, the brilliant engineer Isambard Kingdom Brunel designed stations, bridges, viaducts and tunnels, while later the company's locomotive engineers of Dean, Churchward and Collett created the prettiest and most powerful engines ever designed. Click an image to link to locomotives of this wheel arrangement
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