GWR locomotives

In episodes and movies set in the past, **many locomotives** **that worked for the GWR** between the years 1890 and 1947 appear. Many appear in the Great Way Round while others in Stories from the Wars.

## The Great Bear

### Designer

George Jackson Churchward

**The Great Bear** is a massize one-off Pacific that worked with Killarney on the GWR. He was the first Pacific built in the United Kingdom, the only Pacific constructed by the GWR and known for being way "too stupid" at times.

### Bio

The Great Bear was built at Swindon Works in 1908 as a public relations (PR) exercise by the GWR. There have been many stories about why he came into existence including one claiming he was going to be a testbed for new boiler designs.

In 1910, The Great Bear was moved to the same shed that Killarney, County of Flint, Ivanhoe and Lode Star stay and he gained a reputation for being silly and causing trouble to the others. In 1913, the shed was destroyed by The Great Bear and they had to move into the same shed that Crocodile and Primrose live in. While Ivanhoe tried (and unsuccessfully) to get them into the shed via negotiation, The Great Bear used force to get the two away from their shed, making the situation even worse.

### Personality

The Great Bear is a young engine who shows the future of British railway locomotives and tries to prove this through his daily work. He is renowned as a troublemaker since he gets everyone he makes friends with, especially those that he's stationed with, in trouble with his shenanigans. It's also revealed that The Great Bear gets bored with Ivanhoe's talking.

### Livery

The Great Bear is painted in the post-1912 Great Western lined green livery with the "carter" emblem.

### Basis or real locomotive

   The Great Bear is based on the real locomotive. Gaining the title of "Britain's First Pacific," The Great Bear was built in 1908 and until the introduction of the 4073 'Castle' class in 1923, it was the flagship of the GWR despite having problems with the rear axle box. The locomotive was rebuilt in 1924 as a Castle class and renamed 'Viscount Churchill', but keeping its number. The locomotive was withdrawn and scrapped in 1953. The GWR never built another 4-6-2 but there are claims one was proposed but never built.

### Trivia

The Great Bear's model was scratchbuilt using an old Dapol Castle chassis and a scratchbuilt tender. This was to prove that a model of The Great Bear can be made without major systems and technology.

* Besides the LMS Pacifics and American locomotives, The Great Bear has one of the longest models used in production.

The Great Bear will be voiced by Shane Sowter.

The Great Bear is the first non-Southern British locomotive to feature a bogie tender.

* Clyde is not counted since he's Australian instead of British.

The Great Bear is normally the target for abuse by Crocodile and the unnamed Aberdare because of his 23ft-long boiler barrel.

* He is named "Mr Long Boiler" and "skittle alley" by Crocodile. The latter nickname was used on the NER 4-6-2 class (LNER A2) which had a 29ft-long boiler barrel.
* He is nicknamed "fatso" and "long slong" by the unnamed Aberdare. The previous nickname could refer to the fact it was the heaviest locomotive the GWR had until the introduction of the Kings in 1927. The latter appears to be an adult joke.

The Great Bear's personality is based on Maxwell from Andy Stovold's (Steaming Westard Productions) comedy series 'Heavy Freight'.

The Great Bear's hobby is simply just making a bad situation even worse.

The Great Bear's theme, which is played in the race between him and Killarney, is an epic orchestra version of Gordon's (NWR) theme by UpsideNow on YouTube.

* It a bit of surprise that both engines are 4-6-2s and share the same theme.

The Great Bear has a striking resemblance to the LMS Princess Royals designed by Stanier in 1933. This could be that the Princess Royal class' appearance was based on him with the technical information from the GWR 6000 'King' class (King James I's class)

## County of Flint

### Designer

George Jackson Churchward

**County of Flint**, sometimes just known as **"Flint"** by his friends, is a Churchward County that worked with Killarney on the GWR. He is seen as a more modern version of Killarney and has no intensions of replacing his friend and shed mate.

### Bio

County of Flint was built at Swindon in 1911 at Swindon as one of the last batch of Counties built under Harold Holcroft era, leading to him looking different to the earlier batches with his "curvy" running board. Just two months after being built, he became a resident of Killarney's shed and soon had to deal with The Great Bear's crazy ideas and Ivanhoe's mentioning about a war he was never involved in. The County soon took an attack on the resident City class for being "too old" but never mentions the words "replaced" or "scrapped", since he doesn't want to destroy their friendship.

In 1913, The Great Bear destroyed the shed that he, Lode Star, The Great Bear, Killarney and Ivanhoe live in and they went to Crocodile and Primrose's shed. County of Flint didn't know the situation that their shed was taken because he was out hauling an express to Wales, and later encountered the two on his return journey that same day. When he arrived at the shed, he thought that they lost their minds until he realised what had happened when he was out on his express. It turned out that County of Flint allowed them to stay when both Crocodile and Primrose saw him with them, and the others befriended them.

### Livery

County of Flint is painted in the post-1912 Great Western lined green livery with the "carter" emblem.

### Basis or real locomotive

County of Flint is based off the real locomotive. It was one of 40 GWR 3800 'County' class 4-4-0s built by Swindon from 1905 to 1912 for express duties and based on the 4-6-0 2900 'Saint' class locomotives from 1902. A futher 20 were built between 1911 and 1912 with modifications to the original design by Harold Holcroft. The class was withdrawn following the introduction of the 4073 'Castle' class in 1923 from 1931 to 1933. All have been scrapped but a new-build, No. 3840 'County of Montgomery', is being built.

No. 3826 'County of Flint' was built in 1911 to the Holcroft design and was withdrawn in 1932.

### Trivia

County of Flint's model is a modified Hornby Railroad model. It had its cylinders moved forwards to correct a manufacturing error that came with all Hornby Counties.

County of Flint can be seen as an outside-cylinder version of Killarney, since both have the same boiler (Swindon No. 4) and are around the same size.

County of Flint is inspired by Lima from Andy Stovold's (Steaming Westard Productions) comedy series 'Heavy Freight'.

County of Flint is one of the later Holcroft-era Counties due to the curves on his running board. Previous members built before 1911 had straight boards.

Like all the Churchward Counties, his number was reused on a Collett 2884 class 2-8-0 (developed from the 2800 class) after he was withdrawn and scrapped. This locomotive was built in 1940 and was scrapped at Cashmores in 1965.

Due to there being no sounds being recorded for the class done in the past, County of Flint, like Ivanhoe, uses sounds recorded from the new-build Saint class 4-6-0 No. 2999 'Lady of Legend'.

* This is appropriate since the Churchward County class is technically a smaller version of and based off the Saint.

County of Flint make a "wrong series" reference to Primrose.

## Ivanhoe

### Designer

George Jackson Churchward

**Ivanhoe** is a unusual 4-4-2 (Scott class) that worked with Killarney on the GWR. He strangely talks about the Anglo-Zulu War like he was there, but he wasn't built yet when it happened.

### Bio

Ivanhoe was built at Swindon in 1905 for express work out of Paddington but became more use to slower passenger work since he wasn't as powerful as the other new express locomotives Swindon was building then. He met Killarney after being based in his shed and were soon joined by The Great Bear, who destroyed said shed. When they went to Crocodile and Primrose's shed, Ivanhoe tried to negotiate them into the shed but was shot down when the massive 4-6-2 took over.

Ivanhoe played into The Great Bear's plan to try and kick the shed's resident Dean-era double-framers but played no important role in the actual plan itself, other than causing Lode Star to go on scouting duties.

### Livery

Ivanhoe is painted in the post-1912 Great Western lined green livery with the "carter" emblem.

### Basis or real locomotive

Ivanhoe is based on the real locomotive. It was one of 13 locomotives based on the 2900 'Saint' class prototype No. 171 'Albion' (which was a 4-4-2) and built in 1905. In 1913, all were converted to the standard Saint class 4-6-0 design and continued in service until the 1950s. All carried names related to the books by Sir Walter Scott.

No. 181 'Ivanhoe' was built in 1905 but was rebuilt to a Saint in 1913 and renumbered 2981. It was withdrawn and scrapped in 1951.

### Trivia

Ivanhoe's model is built from a modified and rebuilt Hornby Saint class 4-6-0 with 3D-printed trailing wheels and axlebox covers from an old Tri-ang Hornby tender that was used as a scrap dressing.

* This's due to the fact that no r-t-r for the Scott class exists for OO gauge and the cost of a kit being too expensive, and said kit being hard to find.
* The model had to be converted from tender-driven to loco-driven for added realism.

Ivanhoe is mostly inspired by Flanders from Andy Stovold's (Steaming Westard Productions) comedy series 'Heavy Freight', which his role in episode two 'The Space Race' inspired Ivanhoe in the beginning of 'The Great Way Round'.

Due to there being no sounds being recorded for the class done in the past, Ivanhoe, like County of Flint, uses sounds recorded from the new-build Saint class 4-6-0 No. 2999 'Lady of Legend'.

* This is appropriate since Ivanhoe was originally a 4-4-2 version of a Saint and was rebuilt into a proper Saint in 1913.

Ivanhoe has a habit of mentioning the Anlo-Zulu War despite the fact he was built 26 years after that event. This greatly annoys the others.

## Lode Star

### Designer

George Jackson Churchward

**Lode Star** is a Churchward Star class that worked with Killarney on the GWR. Despite him being large in size, he's normally scared of locomotives that are smaller than him that can threaten with damage. He is now a member of the National Collection of the UK.

### Bio

Lode Star was built by Swindon works in 1907 as a replacement for many older 4-4-0s on express duties out of London Paddington. In 1910, he was based at the same shed which Killarney and Ivanhoe lived in, which The Great Bear joined him at the same time. Between 1910 and 1913, Lode Star had an encounter with Primrose, and nearly lost a cylinder to the Flower class.

### Personality

Lode Star is kind but sometimes scared engine.

### Livery

Lode Star is painted in the post-1912 Great Western lined green livery with the "carter" emblem.

### Basis or real locomotive

Lode Star is based off the real locomotive.

### Trivia

Lode Star is made from a standard Hornby Star class 4-6-0, which as simply been recreated.

Lode Star is normally scared of Primrose when she started threatening him.

* This's ironic since Lode Star is both larger and more powerful than Primrose.
* This could also be a reference to women being scary when they are angry at their male partner.

Lode Star is mostly dragged into discussions that doesn't have anything to do with him.

Lode Star was partly inspired by Ryan from Andy Stovold's (Steaming Westard Productions) comedy series 'Heavy Freight'.

## Crocodile

### Designer

William Dean

**Crocodile** is a Dean-era experimental locomotive that worked with Killarney on the GWR. He was originally hostile (along with Primrose) when the band from London took their shed.

### Bio

Crocodile was built at Swindon in 1896 and was large for a design from William Dean and was one of the first 4-6-0s in the UK. Around 1910, he met Primrose and the two became great friends since both were double-framed locomotives of the GWR. In 1913, Crocodile and Primrose met the "gang" which had taken their shed and was trying everything to have them leave the sheds, in a peaceful manner. This ended when The Great Bear bumped him hard and the two left to haul a goods train. During that run, Crocodile questioned Primrose's insanity and was bumped by Primrose since he was questioning her.

### Personality

Crocodile was originally a hostile to many locomotives but was later friendly to them and regarded them as residents.

### Livery

Crocodile is painted in post-1912 Great Western lined green with the "carter" emblem.

### Basis or real locomotive

    Crocodile is based off the real locomotive. It was one of the first 4-6-0s built in the UK and was one of the largest locomotives built by William Dean, being unusually large for its era. The locomotive was built primarily as an experimental locomotive and was withdrawn by the GWR for being a "non-standard" design under the Standardisation policy by George Jackson Churchward. It was scrapped in 1905.

### Trivia

Crocodile is nicknamed "Mr Snap Snappy" by many GWR locomotives. This could refer to the animal he is named after.

Like Lord of the Isles, the appearance of Crocodile shouldn't even happen since the real locomotive was withdrawn in 1905 and the film is set in 1913.

Crocodile's models is a botch of other models and 3D-printed parts.

* His wheels come from the same chassis as the unnamed Aberdare, a Lima BR Class 08 0-6-0DE.

Crocodile is inspired by Craig from Andy Stovold's (Steaming Westard Productions) comedy series 'Heavy Freight', with a mix of Gordon's (LMR) stern attitude.

Crocodile is one of the oldest locomotives in the Great Way Round. The other one is the 4-2-2 Lord of the Isles.

## Primrose

### Designer

George Jackson Churchward

**Primrose**, commonly known as **"Prim"** for short, is a Flower class that worked with Killarney on the GWR. She was originally hostile (along with Crocodile) when the band from London took their shed.

### Bio

Primrose was built in 1912 at Swindon Works for mixed traffic work on the Great Western Railway. Sometime, she met Crocodile and both become great friends despite them being built decades apart. Also around this time, she met Lode Star and nearly "shanked" one of his cylinders off.

In 1913, she met Lode Star again with his fellow shedmates and soon threatened Ivanhoe and the others, resulting The Great Bear bumping Crocodile hard. While hauling and goods train and at a station, Primrose thought that "murdering" the engines that had taken their shed and bumped Crocodile since he was questioning her ideas. After an almost disastrous attempt to destroy them, Primrose soon accepted them as residents of their shed.

At the same year, Justin was built to replace her despite being only a year old but her design made her look older or around the same age as Killarney.

### Personality

Primrose is kind engine but is also a bit of a psychopathic engine and has a temper problem.

### Livery

Primrose is painted in post-1912 Great Western lined green with the "carter" emblem.

### Trivia

Primrose's nickname "Prim" came from the character Primrose Everdeen from 'The Hunger Games' books. This character commonly referred to as "Prim" by the main character and older sister, Katniss Everdeen.

Primrose is inspired by Rebecca from Andy Stovold's (Steaming Westard Productions) comedy series 'Heavy Freight', but also from Shane Sowter's own experience with a few girls in the past.

It's pretty much unknown how she could "shank" an engine's cylinders off since she can't handle a knife.

Primrose's model was built from a modified Keyser (K's) kit.

## Justin

### Designer

George Jackson Churchward

**Justin** is a young Churchward Mogul that was fresh out the works. He shares much in common with The Great Bear since they get into mischief and mishaps together and originally came to replace Primrose.

### Bio

Justin was built in 1913 as one of the earliest Churchward 4300s built for mixed traffic duties. Intended to replace Flower class 4-4-0 Primrose on her duties, he found out that there were some duties that the older locomotive could do better than he can for his young age.

Justin soon started to hang around the solitary 4-6-2 No. 111 'The Great Bear' and soon enough, the two started to come up with silly plans and antics that get themselves and others into trouble.

### Personality

Justin is a young and troublesome locomotive and is still trying to learn his manners. He normally hangs out with The Great Bear and cause trouble, mostly getting Ivanhoe in trouble.

### Livery

Justin is painted in post-1912 Great Western lined green with the "carter" emblem.

### Basis or real locomotive

Justin is based off the real locomotive. It was one of 342 GWR 4300s built by Swindon Works and Robert Stephenson & Co. from 1911 to 1932. They were the first "Holcroft-era" GWR locomotives built under George Jackson Churchward from 1911 to 1922 for mixed traffic duties as the need arose for such a duel-purpose locomotive. Eleven of these were sent to France in 1917 as part of the Railway Operating Division as No. 5319-5326 and 5328-5330 during the First World War, which were later returned to the GWR in 1919. A further batch of 4300s were built under Churchward's successor Charles Benjamin Collett with minor modifications including outside steam pipes and Collett cabs. Withdrawals began in between 1936 and 1939 when 100 of the older batches were dismantled to create eighty 6800 'Grange' class (Buck's class) and twenty 7800 'Manor' class (Ashley Manor's class) 4-6-0s. Official withdraws were halted due to World War Two and didn't properly begin until 1948 under British Railways (BR) until the last six have been withdrawn in 1964. Two have been preserved, one from the ROD batch and one from the later Collett batch.

No. 4326 was built in 1913 as one of the pre-WWI examples and was modified with outside steam pipes in 1930. It was withdrawn in 1957 and scrapped that same year.

### Trivia

Justin's model is lined and renumbered Dapol 4300 model for OO gauge.

Lizzie, Olivia and Flanders are his younger siblings.

The reason No. 4326 was chosen was because it was built in 1913. This makes his appearance in the film set on August 31st 1913, the exact date that No. 4326 was completed and entered service.

Justin doesn't appear to be based on anyone from Andy Stovold's (Steaming Westard Productions) comedy series 'Heavy Freight', more acts like Percy in his first appearances in Season 1 of Thomas & Friends, accounting to his young age at the time.

## Lord of the Isles

### Designer

William Dean

**Lord of the Isles** is an old tender locomotive that worked for the Great Western Railway (GWR) since the 1890s. He is one of the oldest designs to operate on the railway and one of the weakest in terms of power.

### Bio

Lord of the Isles was built at Swindon in 1895 for express work on the GWR system. He one of the first members of his class to be built as a 4-2-2 instead of a 2-2-2 when introduced and handled many fast services until the introduction of 4-4-0s (like Killarney) on his express trains. He made friends with many of his replacements and taught them valuable lessons on handling express trains. Around 1913, Lord of the Isles was now reaching the end of his service and due to be withdrawn and scrapped, but saw Killarney for a breif visit to his new home while taking o water and had a giggle at The Great Bear after be came in covered in coal dust.

Nothing has been heard of him since the events of 1913 and is clear that he was withdrawn and scrapped before the start of World War One.

### Personality

Lord of the Isles is a wise locomotive who gives advice to the locomotives of the new generation who will do the same when they are old themselves, but can get away with an old joke.

### Livery

Lord of the Isles is painted in post-1912 Great Western lined green with the "carter" emblem.

### Trivia

Lord of the Isles is a runmbered, renamed and lined up Hornby Railroad model. This is mostly a nod to the fact that the model's tooling was originally released in 1961 and sold with the 'Lord of the Isles'.

Like Crocodile, the appearance of Lord of the Isles shouldn't even happen since the real locomotive was withdrawn in 1904 and the film is set in 1913.

## GWR Aberdare

### Designer

William Dean

During the course of 'The Great Way Round', **a mysterious Aberdare** comes and goes at random and only ever calls out at random. He pretty much is seen hauling goods trains.

### Bio

It's unknown when was this Aberdare built since his number is mostly well out of shot. This means that this character has an unknown history before and after 1913 but it's believed that it was built at Swindon Works sometime between 1900 or 1907. Since no Aberdare has appeared in the Mini Series, it's clear that he was scrapped.

### Personality

The Aberdare's personality is unknown but he somehow has a hatred towards The Great Bear and other locomotives since he's normally saying bad things about them or calling them bad names.

### Livery

The Aberdare is painted in post-1912 Great Western lined green with the "carter" emblem

### Basis or real locomotive

    The Aberdare is based on a real GWR 2600 class. 80 were built between 1900 and 1907 at Swindon Works under William Dean and G. J. Churchward for mineral duties between Swindon and Aberdare, which the latter gave rise to their popular name "Aberdares". They were based on the 2602 "Kruger" class 2-6-0s and the final ones were cannibalised from these locomotives. Modifications were little to the class such as the fitting of taper boilers and top water feeders under Churchward. Withdrawals started in 1934 and by 1948, two were left and both were scrapped a year later. They were replaced by 4300 2-6-0s (like Justin) and large 4-6-0s like Halls and Manors.

### Trivia

The Aberdare's model is a "botch" of many models, since no r-t-r model exists for the 2600. The model was built from:

* The chassis of a Lima BR Class 08 0-6-0DE.
* The cab, boiler and a tender from a kit of City of Truro by Dapol.
* The pony truck from an old Hornby GWR Large Prairie.
* GWR number plates from Narrow Planet.
* GWR bufferbeam numbers from Fox Transfers.
* This model could have been built using a Keyser (K's) kit for the Aberdare but building it from scratch seemed to be a cheaper alternative.

GWR 2600s were mainly used on the line between Swindon and Aberdare. The line shown in 'The Great Way Round' appears to be set on that route.

## 2800

### Designer

George Jackson Churchward

In the beginning of 'The Great Way Round' a **2800 2-8-0** is seen being pulled by The Great Bear. He later serves as a background character for the rest of the film hauling goods trains.

### Bio

Since the engine's number is not seen, we don't know the engine's origins apart from the fact he was "kidnapped" by The Great Bear in 1913.

### Personality

Since the engine only has two speaking lines, the engine's personality is unknown but what is clear is that he can be grumpy when someone that should be weaker than him is towing him.

### Livery

The 2800 is painted in post-1912 Great Western lined green with the "carter" emblem.

### Basis or real locomotive

    The 2800 is based of a real GWR 2800 class 2-8-0 steam locomotive. They were introduced in 1903 and were the first 2-8-0s in the UK, which sort of explains their class designation '2800'. The class continued production even after WWI and a second, alomost identical class, the 2884, produced as far as the Second World War. The class was withdrawn between 1958 right up to the end of steam on the Western Region of British Railways in 1965. Out of 84 (plus 83 of the 2884 class) built, six 2800s (plus nine 2884s) have been preserved with No. 2861 being one of the infamous "Barry Ten" and used as a parts donar for new-builds 2999 'Lady of Legend' (completed in 2019) and 4709.

### Trivia

The 2800 appears to be a pre-Holcroft example since the front end is more straight than curvy on Holcroft-era Churchward locomotives.

* Another clue is shown that the locomotive has inside steam pipes, which was renowned on the early members of the class (preserved survivor No. 2818 is the only surviving member of this class in this condition).

The 2800 should be the most powerful locomotive in The Great Way Round, but is somehow less powerful than The Great Bear.

The 2800 is a standard Hornby model that has been lined up and renumbered.

The 2800 is inspired by the Grange class that appeared in the beginning of 'Heavy Freight Episode 2: The Space Race' being dragged by Maxwell.

Due to the position the engine is seen, the number of the 2800 is hard to determine due to either the angle or the distance the model is to the camera.

Agnes from Western Super Pannier is a modern version of his class.

## No. 4407

### Designer

George Jackson Churchward

When Crocodile and Primrose was talking about "killing" the gang, **Small Prairie No. 4407** is seen hauling a commuter train into the station.

### Bio

The bio of this engine is unknown but what is known is that it was built in 1906 by Wolverhampton Works as a member of the 4400 class 2-6-2Ts introduced a year before. The rest of his life before and after 1913 is unknown bu what can be confirmed is that he was scrapped.

### Personality

The personality of this engine is unknown.

### Livery

No. 4407 is painted in post-1912 Great Western lined green with the "carter" emblem.

### Basis or real locomotive

No. 4407 is based off the real locomotive. It was one of eleven locomotives built by Wolverhampton Works from 1905 and 1906 ( with one more built by Swindon in 1914) for suburban service on branchlines on the Great Western Railway. The design became the basis of the 4500 which had larger driving wheels and became the last locomotives built by Wolverhampton. They were replaced by larger tank engines and were withdrawn between December 1949 to September 1955. All eleven were scrapped.

No. 4407 was built at Wolverhampton in 1906 and was withdrawn in March 1953 from Plymouth Laria depot.

### Trivia

No. 4407 is a part of a family of GWR tank engines known as "Small Prairies." These include the 4500 and 4575.

* The bigger 2-6-2Ts are known as "Large Prairies".

No. 4407 is a modified and renumbered Bachmann 4500 with smaller driving wheels.

The number of the 4400 came from the locomotive of the same number that appeared in St Gloriana Gaming Collage's RMV of the Sabaton song 'Blood of Bannockburn' on YouTube, uploaded in early 2019.

## Earl of Plymouth

### Designer

Charles Benjamin Collett

**Earl of Plymouth** is a Great Western Earl "Dukedog" class that worked on the Great Western Railway before, during and after WWII.

### Bio

Earl of Plymouth, like many of his class, was built using the frames of Bulldog No. 3428 with the cab and boiler of Duke No. 3267 'Cornishman in 1936 and because of his new name, he because a very posh locomotive. His life between 1936 and 1940 is unknown but he probably hauled secondary passenger trains. In 1940, he was covered in dust from briquettes when a work set of a stick of dynamite (mistaking it for a candle). He soon told Will about two gentlemen waiting on the bay platform for him.

Following his, Earl of Plymouth is never seen or heard from again but it's clear he was scrapped less than a year after Nationalisation in 1948.

### Personality

Earl of Plymouth is a posh locomotive who tries to put the needs for himself above the others, but mostly because of his nameplates or his namesake.

### Livery

Earl of Plymouth is painted in GWR unlined Middle Chrome Green with the "shirtbutton" emblem.

### Basis or real locomotive

Earl of Plymouth is based on the real locomotive. It was one of 30 created from rebuilding the boilers and cabs from Duke class express locomotives with the frames of Bulldog class mixed traffic locomotives to create a new class of light mixed traffic locomotive. They were built from 1936 to 1939 by Swindon Works and were officially named 'Earls', but never carried nameplates in service days and were the last double framers built in the UK. They were retired from 1948 to 1960 and one locomotive, No. 3217/9017 'Earl of Barkley' has been preserved.

No. 3206/9006 was built in 1936 and was withdrawn in 1948 from Didcot shed. It was scrapped later that year. It was allocated the name 'Earl of Plymouth' but never carried it in service days.

### Trivia

Earl of Plymouth mostly mentions his "grace" to many locomotives. This's because Earl of Plymouth is mostly inspired by Duke the Lost Engine from The Railway Series.

* This is cemented with the line, "His grace would not approve of me being painted black."

Earl of Plymouth is a standard Bachmann model that has been factory fitted with sound and weathered by Shane Sowter with black powders.

* Unlike his model, No. 3206/9006 never carried nameplates during its service life.

## No. 4287

### Designer

George Jackson Churchward

**No. 4287** is a large goods tank locomotive that worked on the Great Western Railway. He normally handles coal trains out of Wales.

### Bio

No. 4287 was built at Swindon Works in 1921 for heavy coal traffic in the Welsh coal fields. In 1940, he was at Newton Abbot when Will was taken into War Department ownership before departing in order to deliver a goods train to Cardiff. This engine was scrapped off screen in the 1960s.

### Personality

No. 4287 appears to be a hard worker but can get tired (or it could be the briquettes?)

### Livery

No. 4287 is painted in GWR Wartime Black livery.

### Basis or real locomotive

No. 4287 is based on the real locomotive. It was one of 105 built by the GWR by Churchward for coal traffic in Wales from 1910 to 1923. They were designed to replace the older Taff Vale Railway 0-6-2Ts and assist the 2-8-0s across the GWR network around Wales. Because of their high water concuption and limited tank capacity, the class was nicknamed "water carts" by their crews. The class was copied by Collett to create the 5205 class and 14 were rebuilt into 7200 class 2-8-2T between 1937 and 1939. True withdrawals for the class began in 1959 and the final one was withdrawn from service right up to the end of Western Region steam in 1965. Five have been preserved.

No. 4287 was built in 1921 and was withdrawn in early 1961. It was scrapped later that year at Swindon.

### Trivia

No. 4287's face is covered in briquette dust after working with them for a while.

No. 4287's model is a Hornby model that has been converted to GWR condition from BR condition. The model has also been weathered to replicate briquette dust built up over weeks of operation.

No. 4287 appears to feature the original design since he has no outside steam pipes.

## Callum

### Designer

Charles Benjamin Collett

**Callum** is an ex-GWR Large Prairie who was based at Old Oak Common in the 1950s. He was one of Zac's friends when he was at that shed.

### Bio

Callum was built at Swindon Works in 1932 for suburban traffic. His service life during GWR years until Nationalisation in 1948. During the 1950s, Callum was based at Old Oak Common depot for work out of London-Paddington when Zac visited the shed in 1956. Due to them being suburban engines, they developed a strong friendship which allowed the two to share their duties. Callum became Zac's greatest motivator when he began working on express trains until he was reallocated in 1961.

Callum was withdrawn from service at Oxford sheds in 1965 and scrapped at New Bridge.

### Livery

Callum was painted in BR Unlined Black with Early Emblems.

### Basis or real locomotive

Callum is based off the real locomotive. It was one of 70 Collett 6100 class "Large Prairies" built as a replacement for the 1905-introduced Churchward 2221 class 4-4-2Ts on commuter trains around the London area from 1931 to 1935 at Swindon works. The design was based off a 1902 Churchward prototype without any major modifications to the original design and was basically a larger version of the 5101 class. Withdrawals of the 6100 began in 1958 with the last going near the end of Western Region steam in 1965. One has been preserved.

No. 6145 was built in 1932 and was withdrawn from Oxford on New Years Eve, 1965. It was scrapped at Cashmores in February a year later.

### Trivia

Callum is named after Callum Hancock.

Callum's model is an unmodified but slightly weathered Hornby model.

A locomotive similar in appearance to Callum is seen at Cashmores scrapyard in 1963. This could be possibly No. 6146, withdrawn in 1962 and scrapped in 1964.

## Agnes

### Designer

Charles Benjamin Collett

**Agnes** is an old heavy goods locomotive that worked out of Newton Abbot. She was withdrawn in 1964 but refused to accept her fate.

### Bio

Agnes was built at Swindon Works in 1942 as one of the last members of the 2884 class heavy goods engines for the Great Western Railway (GWR). Not much about her history before 1964 is known but what is known is that in 1964, she was withdrawn from service at Newton Abbot depot. When Murphy encountered her following her withdrawal, she was simply refusing to believe that her days were over and when a diesel tried to take her away to the scrapyards, she deliberately derailed herself.

Not much is known after this point, possibly she was scrapped *in situ* days or weeks after she derailed herself.

### Personality

Agnes is a rather unaccepting engine when it comes to her fate.

### Livery

Agnes is painted in BR Unlined Black with Early Emblems.

### Basis or real locomotive

Agnes is based off the real locomotive. I was one of 83 members of the GWR 2884 class 2-8-0 built for heavy goods duties between 1938 and 1942 and based on the Churchward 2800 class from 1903. They featured a new design of Collett cab while some took the numbers of the former Churchward 3800 'County' class 4-4-0s. Withdrawals from service began in 1962 and the last members of the class were retired in 1965. Nine have been preserved.

No. 3864 was built at Swindon in 1942 and was withdrawn from service in 1965.

### Trivia

Agnes' model is an unmodified Hornby model.

Agnes is named after the main character from the British comedy 'Mrs. Brown's Boys', *Agnes* Brown.

The 2800 from The Great Way Round is an older version of her class.

## Pauly

**Pauly** is a Large Prairie that worked in the Western Region of British Railway. He was one of five locomotives sent to the MSR in 1964 for possible preservation.