page_title: List of 7-foot gauge railway locomotive names
section_title: C
hierarchical_section_title: List of 7-foot gauge railway locomotive names / C
caption_attribution_description: North Devon Railway broad gauge 2-4-0 locomotive Creedy photographed at Barnstaple shortly after the railway was absorbed by the London and South Western 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: Caesar (leader of people: Caesar)
  GWR Caesar class 0-6-0 (1851 - 1880)
  Caliban (Shakespear character: Caliban)
  GWR Pyracmon class 0-6-0 (1848 - 1873)
  Caliph  (Leadrer of people: Caliph)
  GWR Standard Goods 0-6-0 (1854 - 1878)
  Cambyses  (Leader of people: Cambyses)
  GWR Standard Goods 0-6-0 (1854 - 1877)
  Camel (Animal: Camel)
  SDR Buffalo class 0-6-0ST (1872 - 1892)
  Camelia  [sic] (Flower: Camellia)
  GWR Metropolitan class 2-4-0T (1863 - 1876)
  Cancer (Zodiac: Cancer)
  GWR Leo class 2-4-0 (1841 - 1874)
  Capricornus (Zodiac: Capricorn)
  GWR Leo class 2-4-0 (1842 - 1870)
  Castor (Greek mythology: Castor and Pollux)
  GWR Fire Fly class 2-2-2 (1841 - 1874)
  SDR Eagle class 4-4-0ST (1865 - 1882)
  Cato (Roman personality: Cato)
  GWR Standard Goods 0-6-0 (1853 - 1871)
  SDR Eagle class 4-4-0ST (1863 - 1877)
  Centaur (Greek mythology: Centaur)
  GWR Fire Fly class 2-2-2 (1841 - 1867)
  Cerebus (Greek mythology: Cerebus)
  GWR Fire Fly class 2-2-2 (1841 - 1866)
  GWR Hawthorn class 2-4-0 (1866 - 1877)
  GWR Hawthorn class 2-4-0T (1877 - 1892)
  Ceres (Roman mythology: Ceres)
  GWR Standard Goods 0-6-0 (1854 - 1877)
  Champion (Power: Champion)
  GWR Standard Goods 0-6-0 (1862 - 1878)
  Charon (Greek mythology: Charon)
  GWR Fire Fly class 2-2-2 (1840 - 1878)
  Cheltenham (Geography: Cheltenham)
  BGR 2-2-2 (1844 - 1856)
  Chester (Geography: Chester)
  GWR Swindon class 0-6-0 (1866 - 1873)
  Chronus (Greek mythology: Chronos)
  GWR Standard Goods 0-6-0 (1861 - 1878)
  Cicero (Roman personality: Cicero)
  GWR Standard Goods 0-6-0 (1853 - 1871)
  Clyde (Geography: River Clyde)
  GWR Standard Goods 0-6-0 (1858 - 1872)
  Coeur de Lion (Literary: see The Waverley Novels)
  GWR Waverley class 4-4-0 (1855 - 1876)
  Comet (Speed: Comet)
  GWR Sun class 2-2-2 (1840 - 1871)
  SDR Comet class 4-4-0ST (1851 - 1884)
  Coquette
  GWR Standard Goods 0-6-0 (1853 - 1875)
  Cornwall (Geography: Cornwall)
  NCJR 0-6-0T
  Corsair
  GWR Bogie class 4-4-0ST (1849 - 1873)
  Cossack (Classical peoples: Cossack)
  GWR Standard Goods 0-6-0 (1862 - 1880)
  Courier (Speed: Courier)
  GWR Iron Duke class 4-2-2 (1848 - 1877)
  GWR Rover class 4-2-2 (1878 - 1892)
  Creedy (Geography: River Creedy)
  NDR 2-4-0 (1855 - 1877)
  Creese
  GWR Sun class 2-2-2 (1842 - 1866)
  Creon (Greek mythology: Creon)
  GWR Standard Goods 0-6-0 (1856 - 1872)
  Crimea (British battles: Crimean War)
  GWR Iron Duke class 4-2-2 (1855 - 1876)
  GWR Rover class 4-2-2 (1878 - 1892)
  Crow (Bird: Crow)
  SDR Raven class 0-4-0ST (1874 - 1892)
  Cupid (Roman mythology: Cupid and Psyche)
  GWR Standard Goods 0-6-0 (1853 - 1874)
  Cyclops (Greek mythology: Cyclops)
  GWR Fire Fly class 2-2-2 (1840 - 1865)
  Cyprus (Greek mythology: birthplace of Aphrodite)
  GWR Standard Goods 0-6-0 (1854 - 1878)
  Czar (Leader of people: Czar)
  GWR Metropolitan class 2-4-0T (1862 - 1871)
caption: North Devon Railway Creedy
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