page_title: List of 7-foot gauge railway locomotive names
section_title: H
hierarchical_section_title: List of 7-foot gauge railway locomotive names / H
caption_attribution_description: Broad gauge 4-4-0ST Heron. This locomotive was built for the Carmarthen and Cardigan Railway but, by the time the photograph was taken, was working on the South Devon Railway.
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: Hackworth (Famous engineer: Timothy Hackworth)
  GWR Hawthorn class 2-4-0 (1865 - 1892)
  Hades (Greek mythology: Hades)
  GWR Standard Goods 0-6-0 (1861 - 1878)
  Harpy (Greek mythology: Harpy)
  GWR Fire Fly class 2-2-2 (1841- 1873)
  Hawk (Bird: Hawk)
  GWR Fire Fly class 2-2-2 (1840 - 1865)
  SDR Eagle class 4-4-0ST (1859 - 1886)
  GWR Hawthorn class 2-4-0 (1865 - 1892)
  Hawthorn (Famous engineer: see Hawthorn Leslie and Company)
  GWR Hawthorn class 2-4-0 (1865 - 1876)
  Hebe (Greek mythology: Hebe)
  GWR Standard Goods 0-6-0(1852 - 1877)
  SDR Dido class 0-6-0ST (1860 - 1877)
  Hecate (Greek mythology: Hecate)
  GWR Fire Fly class 2-2-2 (1841 - 1867)
  Hecla (Geography: Hecla)
  GWR Leo class 2-4-0 (1841 - 1864)
  CCR and SDR 4-4-0ST (1864 - 1892)
  Hector (Greek mythology: Hector)
  GWR Fire Fly class 2-2-2 (1841 - 1866)
  SDR Eagle class 4-4-0ST (1860 - 1892)
  Hecuba (Greek mythology: Hecuba)
  GWR Standard Goods 0-6-0 (1853 - 1873)
  Hedley (Famous engineer: William Hedley)
  GWR Hawthorn class 2-4-0 (1865 - 1877)
  GWR Hawthorn class 2-4-0T (1877 - 1892)
  Hercules (Roman mythology: Hercules)
  GWR Hercules class 0-6-0 (1842 - 1870)
  SDR Buffalo class 0-6-0ST (1872 - 1889)
  Hereford (Geography: Hereford)
  GWR Swindon class 0-6-0 (1866 - 1872)
  Hero (Mythology: Hero)
  GWR Caesar class 0-6-0 (1851 - 1871)
  SDR Dido class 0-6-0ST (1860 - 1887)
  Heron (Bird: Heron)
  CCR and SDR 4-4-0T (1861 - 1872)
  SDR 4-4-0ST (1872 - 1892)
  Hesiod (Greek personality: Hesiod)
  GWR Bogie class 4-4-0ST (1855 - 1872)
  Hesperus (Roman mythology: Hesperus)
  GWR Sun class 2-2-2 (1841 - 1876)
  Hirondelle (Bird: French for Swallow)
  GWR Iron Duke class 4-2-2 (1848 - 1873)
  GWR Rover class 4-2-2 (1873 - 1890)
  Homer (Greek personality: Homer)
  GWR Bogie class 4-4-0ST (1854 - 1873)
  Horace (Roman personality: Horace)
  GWR Bogie class 4-4-0ST (1854 - 1880)
  Hornet (Insect: Hornet)
  GWR Metropolitan class 2-4-0T (1862 - 1873)
  Humber (Geography: River Humber)
  GWR Standard Goods 0-6-0 (1857 - 1883)
  Hurricane (Power: Hurricane)
  GWR Harrison 0-4-0+6 (1838 - 1839)
  Hydra (Greek mythology: Lernaean Hydra)
  GWR Fire Fly class 2-2-2 (1842 - 1865)
caption: South Devon Railway 4-4-0ST Heron
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