page_title: List of 7-foot gauge railway locomotive names
section_title: R
hierarchical_section_title: List of 7-foot gauge railway locomotive names / R
caption_attribution_description: Great Western Railway Hawthorn Class 2-4-0T Roberts at Swindon in 1892 awaiting dismantling.
context_page_description: This is a list of the names of broad gauge railway locomotives built in the United Kingdom during the heyday of that gauge. Throughout the history of railways many locomotives have been named, 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
context_section_description: Raven (Bird: Raven)
  SDR and TBR Raven class 0-4-0ST (1874 - 1892)
  Reading (Geography: Reading)
  GWR Swindon class 0-6-0 (1866 - 1874)
  Red Gauntlet (Literary: Redgauntlet)
  GWR Waverley class 4-4-0 (1855 - 1876)
  Red Star
  GWR Star class 2-2-2 (1840 - 1865)
  Redruth (Geography: Redruth)
  WCR 0-6-0ST (1871 - 1887)
  Regulus (Roman mythology: see Basilisk)
  GWR Standard Goods 0-6-0 (1862 - 1883)
  Remus (Roman mythology: Romulus and Remus)
  GWR Standard Goods 0-6-0 (1853 - 1879)
  SDR Remus class 0-6-0ST (1866 - 1886)
  Rennie (Famous engineer: John Rennie)
  GWR Victoria class 2-4-0 (1863 - 1878)
  Rhea (Greek mythology: Rhea)
  GWR Standard Goods 0-6-0 (1855 - 1872)
  Rhondda (Geography: River Rhondda)
  GWR Standard Goods 0-6-0 (1859 - 1877)
  Rising Star
  GWR Star class 2-2-2 (1840 - 1871)
  Rob Roy (Literary: Rob Roy)
  GWR Waverley class 4-4-0 (1855 - 1872)
  Roberts (Famous engineer: Richard Roberts)
  GWR Hawthorn class 2-4-0 (1865 - 1877)
  GWR Hawthorn class 2-4-0T (1877 - 1892)
  Robin Hood (Literature: Robin Hood)
  GWR Waverley class 4-4-0 (1855 - 1876)
  S&WR 0-6-0T (1868 - 1872)
  Rocket (Speed: Rocket)
  GWR Sun class 2-2-2 (1841 - 1870)
  SDR Comet class 4-4-0ST (1851 - 1877)
  Rougemont
  GWR Iron Duke class 4-2-2 (1848 - 1879)
  Romulus (Roman mythology: Romulus and Remus)
  GWR Standard Goods 0-6-0 (1853 - 1877)
  SDR Remus class 0-6-0ST (1866 - 1892)
  Rook (Bird: Rook)
  Raven class 0-4-0ST (1874 - 1892)
  Rosa
  LVR and SDR 4-4-0ST (1863 - 1874)
  SDR 0-6-0ST (1874 - 1885)
  Rose (Flower: Rose)
  GWR Metropolitan class 2-4-0T (1863 - 1877)
  Rover (Speed: Rover)
  GWR Iron Duke class 4-2-2 (1850 - 1871)
  GWR Rover class 4-2-2 (1871 - 1892)
  Royal Star
  GWR Star class 2-2-2 (1841 - 1871)
  Ruby
  GWR Standard Goods 0-6-0 (1854 - 1881)
caption: Hawthorn 2-4-0T Roberts
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