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8ft 10in Pearson 4-2-4T no. 2002 (previously no. 40) at Exeter in 1876
The Bristol and Exeter Railway locomotives worked trains on the
Bristol and Exeter Railway from 1 May 1849 until the railway was
amalgamated with the
Great Western Railway on 1 January 1876.
The Great Western Railway had leased the Bristol and Exeter Railway from its opening and provided the locomotives up until 1849.
The Bristol and Exeter Railway in turn provided the
broad gauge locomotive power on most of the railways with which it had junctions:
Engineering
The railway established workshops at
Bristol Temple Meads railway station in September 1854, the site later being known as
Bath Road . Engine sheds were provided at major stations and on some branches including at
Taunton railway station and
Exeter St Davids railway station .
The engineer was
Charles Hutton Gregory until May 1850, when
James Pearson was appointed as Locomotive Engineer. He designed several classes of tank engines, including large
4-2-4T locomotives.
Locomotive types
Broad gauge
Standard gauge
The Bristol and Exeter Railway operated 28 standard gauge locomotives, all of which became GWR property on 1 January 1876.
Narrow gauge
The Bristol and Exeter Railway built two
0-4-0WT locomotives in 1874/75 at Bristol – numbers 112 and 113 – for working the 3 feet gauge lines in its ballast quarry at Westleigh, Devon to the main line at
Burlescombe . They were renumbered 1381/2 when acquired by the GWR, and following the conversion of the line to standard gauge in 1898, were sold in 1899.
Locomotives in numerical order
1849
Broad gauge 4-2-2
1875 Standard gauge locomotive
1849
Broad gauge 4-2-2
1872
Broad gauge 2-4-0
1849
Broad gauge 4-2-2
1874 Standard gauge locomotive
1849
Broad gauge 4-2-2
1871
Broad gauge 2-4-0
1849
Broad gauge 4-2-2
1871
Broad gauge 2-4-0
1849
Broad gauge 4-2-2
1870
Broad gauge 2-4-0
1849
Broad gauge 4-2-2
1849
Broad gauge 4-2-2
1872
Broad gauge 2-4-0
1849
Broad gauge 4-2-2
1849
Broad gauge 4-2-2
1849
Broad gauge 4-2-2
1874
Convertible 2-4-0
1849
Broad gauge 4-2-2
1862
Broad gauge 7 feet 6-inch 4-2-4T
1849
Broad gauge 4-2-2
1849
Broad gauge 4-2-2
1870
Broad gauge 2-4-0
1849
Broad gauge 4-2-2
1849
Broad gauge 4-2-2
1875 Standard gauge locomotive
1849
Broad gauge 4-2-2
1849
Broad gauge 4-2-2
1849
Broad gauge 4-2-2
1849
Broad gauge 4-2-2
1874
Convertible 2-4-0
1849
Broad gauge 0-6-0
1849
Broad gauge 0-6-0
1849
Broad gauge 0-6-0
1849
Broad gauge 0-6-0
1849
Broad gauge 0-6-0
1849
Broad gauge 0-6-0
1849
Broad gauge 0-6-0
1849
Broad gauge 0-6-0
1849 Fairfield
1859
Broad gauge 7 feet 6-inch 4-2-4T
1851
Broad gauge 2-2-2T
1876 Standard gauge locomotive
1851
Broad gauge 2-2-2T
1851
Broad gauge 2-2-2T
1851
Broad gauge 2-2-2T
1876 Standard gauge locomotive
1851
Broad gauge 2-2-2T
1875
Convertible 2-4-0
1853
Broad gauge 0-6-0
1853
Broad gauge 0-6-0
1853
Broad gauge 0-6-0
1853
Broad gauge 0-6-0
1853
Broad gauge 9 feet 4-2-4T
1868
Broad gauge 8 feet 10-inch 4-2-4T
1853
Broad gauge 9 feet 4-2-4T
1873
Broad gauge 8 feet 10-inch 4-2-4T
1853
Broad gauge 9 feet 4-2-4T
1868
Broad gauge 8 feet 10-inch 4-2-4T
1854
Broad gauge 9 feet 4-2-4T
1868
Broad gauge 8 feet 10-inch 4-2-4T
1854
Broad gauge 9 feet 4-2-4T
1871
Broad gauge 2-4-0
1854
Broad gauge 9 feet 4-2-4T
1870
Broad gauge 2-4-0
1854
Broad gauge 9 feet 4-2-4T
1870
Broad gauge 2-4-0
1854
Broad gauge 9 feet 4-2-4T
1870
Broad gauge 2-4-0
1855
Broad gauge 4-4-0ST
1855
Broad gauge 4-4-0ST
1855
Broad gauge 4-4-0ST
1855
Broad gauge 4-4-0ST
1855
Broad gauge 4-4-0ST
1855
Broad gauge 4-4-0ST
1856
Broad gauge 0-6-0
1856
Broad gauge 0-6-0
1856
Broad gauge 0-6-0
1856
Broad gauge 0-6-0
1859
Broad gauge 2-2-2T
1859
Broad gauge 2-2-2T
1860
Broad gauge 0-6-0
1860
Broad gauge 0-6-0
1862
Broad gauge 4-4-0ST
1862
Broad gauge 4-4-0ST
1862
Broad gauge 4-4-0ST
1862
Broad gauge 4-4-0ST
1867
Broad gauge 4-4-0ST
1867
Broad gauge 4-4-0ST
1867
Broad gauge 4-4-0ST
1867
Broad gauge 4-4-0ST
1867
Broad gauge 4-4-0ST
1867
Broad gauge 4-4-0ST
1867
Broad gauge 4-4-0ST
1867
Broad gauge 4-4-0ST
1867
Broad gauge 4-4-0ST
1867
Broad gauge 4-4-0ST
1866
Broad gauge 0-6-0ST
1866
Broad gauge 0-6-0ST
1867
Convertible 0-6-0 locomotive
1867
Convertible 0-6-0 locomotive
1867
Convertible 0-6-0 locomotive
1867
Convertible 0-6-0 locomotive
1867
Convertible 0-6-0 locomotive
1867
Convertible 0-6-0 locomotive
1868 Standard gauge 2-4-0 locomotive
1868 Standard gauge 2-4-0 locomotive
1873
Broad gauge 4-4-0ST
1873
Broad gauge 4-4-0ST
1873
Broad gauge 4-4-0ST
1873
Broad gauge 4-4-0ST
1873
Broad gauge 4-4-0ST
1873
Broad gauge 4-4-0ST
1872
Broad gauge 0-4-0T
1874
Broad gauge 0-4-0T
Standard gauge locomotive
Standard gauge locomotive
Standard gauge locomotive
1872 ex-
GWR Swindon Class broad gauge 0-6-0 Shrewsbury
1872 ex-
GWR Swindon Class broad gauge 0-6-0 Hereford
1873 ex-
GWR Swindon Class broad gauge 0-6-0 Chester
1873 ex-
GWR Swindon Class broad gauge 0-6-0 Windsor
1873 ex-
GWR Swindon Class broad gauge 0-6-0 London
1873 ex-
GWR Swindon Class broad gauge 0-6-0 Bristol
1873 ex-
GWR Swindon Class broad gauge 0-6-0 Gloucester
1873 ex-
GWR Swindon Class broad gauge 0-6-0 Birmingham
1874 ex-
GWR Swindon Class broad gauge 0-6-0 Wolverhampton
1874 ex-
GWR Swindon Class broad gauge 0-6-0 Bath
1874 ex-
GWR Swindon Class broad gauge 0-6-0 Newport
1874 ex-
GWR Swindon Class broad gauge 0-6-0 Reading
1874 ex-
GWR Swindon Class broad gauge 0-6-0 Oxford
1874 ex-
GWR Swindon Class broad gauge 0-6-0 Swindon
1874 ex-
South Wales Mineral Railway broad gauge tank locomotive
1874
Broad gauge 0-6-0T
1874 3 feet gauge locomotive for
Westleigh Quarry
1874 3 feet gauge locomotive for Westleigh Quarry
1874
Standard gauge 0-6-0T locomotive for the
Culm Valley Light Railway
1875
Standard gauge 0-6-0T locomotive for the Culm Valley Light Railway
1875
Standard gauge 0-6-0 locomotive
1875
Standard gauge 0-6-0 locomotive
1875
Standard gauge 0-6-0 locomotive
1875
Standard gauge 0-6-0 locomotive
1875
Standard gauge 0-6-0 locomotive
1875
Standard gauge 0-6-0 locomotive
1875
Standard gauge 0-6-0 locomotive
1875
Standard gauge 0-6-0 locomotive
1875
Standard gauge 0-6-0 locomotive
1875
Standard gauge 0-6-0 locomotive
References
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ISBN
0-901115-32-0 .
OCLC
650490992 .
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RCTS .
ISBN
0-901115-33-9 .
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Twelveheads Press .
ISBN
0-906294-29-0 .
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ISBN
0-7110-2634-3 .