Bristol and Exeter Railway locomotives

The Bristol and Exeter Railway locomotives worked trains on the Bristol and Exeter Railway

Bristol and Exeter Railway

The Bristol & Exeter Railway was a railway company formed to connect Bristol and Exeter.The company's head office was situated outside their Bristol station...

from 1 May 1849 until the railway was amalgamated

Consolidation (business)

Consolidation or amalgamation is the act of merging many things into one. In business, it often refers to the mergers and acquisitions of many smaller companies into much larger ones. In the context of financial accounting, consolidation refers to the aggregation of financial statements of a group...

with the Great Western Railway

Great Western Railway

The Great Western Railway was a British railway company that linked London with the south-west and west of England and most of Wales. It was founded in 1833, received its enabling Act of Parliament in 1835 and ran its first trains in 1838...

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

Broad gauge

Broad-gauge railways use a track gauge greater than the standard gauge of .- List :For list see: List of broad gauges, by gauge and country- History :...

locomotive power on most of the railways with which it had junctions:

Bristol and Portishead Port and Pier Railway
Portishead Railway
The Portishead Railway was a branch line railway running from Portishead in Somerset to the Great Western Main Line in Bristol, England. It was constructed in the 1860s by the Bristol & Portishead Pier and Railway, which was incorporated to build a pier and a broad gauge link to the Bristol and...
Somerset Central Railway
West Somerset Railway
West Somerset Railway
The West Somerset Railway is a railway line that originally linked and in Somerset, England.It opened in 1862 and was extended from Watchet to by the Minehead Railway in 1874. Although just a single track, improvements were needed in the first half of the twentieth century to accommodate the...

and Minehead Railway
Devon and Somerset Railway
Devon and Somerset Railway
The Devon and Somerset Railway was a branch line from near in Somerset to in North Devon. It was operated from the outset by the Bristol and Exeter Railway which became part of the Great Western Railway on 1 January 1876.-History:...
Exeter and Crediton Railway
Exeter and Crediton Railway
The Exeter and Crediton Railway was a broad gauge railway that linked Exeter and Crediton, Devon, England.Although built in 1847, it was not opened until 12 May 1851 due to disagreement about the gauge to be used...

Engineering

The railway established workshops at Bristol Temple Meads railway station

Bristol Temple Meads railway station

Bristol Temple Meads railway station is the oldest and largest railway station in Bristol, England. It is an important transport hub for public transport in Bristol, with bus services to various parts of the city and surrounding districts, and a ferry service to the city centre in addition to the...

in September 1854, the site later being known as Bath Road

Bristol Bath Road TMD

Bristol Bath Road TMD was a railway Traction Maintenance Depot situated in Bristol.Originally built for the Bristol and Exeter Railway, it was rebuilt in 1934 by the Great Western Railway. The depot was rebuilt again in the early 1960's as its role changed from maintaining steam locomotives to...

. Engine sheds were provided at major stations and on some branches including at Taunton railway station

Taunton railway station

Taunton railway station is a junction station on the route from London to Penzance, from London Paddington station. It is situated in Taunton, Somerset, England and is operated by First Great Western...

and Exeter St Davids railway station

Exeter St Davids railway station

Exeter St Davids station is the most important of seven National Rail stations in the city of Exeter in southwest England. Today the station is owned by Network Rail and operated by First Great Western.-History:...

.

The engineer was Charles Hutton Gregory

Charles Hutton Gregory

Sir Charles Hutton Gregory KCMG was a British civil engineer. He was president of the Institution of Civil Engineers between December 1867 and December 1869....

until May 1850, when James Pearson

James Pearson (engineer)

This article is about James Pearson, British railway engineer. For other people of the same name see James Pearson.James Pearson was a 19th century English railway engineer...

was appointed as Locomotive Engineer. He designed several classes of tank engines, including large 4-2-4T

4-2-4 (locomotive)

In Whyte notation, a 4-2-4 is a steam locomotive that has a four-wheel leading truck, one powered driving axle and a four-wheel unpowered trailing truck.Other equivalent classifications are:...

locomotives.

Broad gauge

1849 4-2-2 locomotives
Bristol and Exeter Railway 4-2-2 locomotives
The 20 Bristol and Exeter Railway 4-2-2 locomotives were broad gauge 4-2-2 express steam locomotives built for the Bristol and Exeter Railway by the Stothert and Slaughter in Bristol. The first entered service in 1849...

– 20 passenger locomotives
1849 0-6-0 locomotives – 12 goods locomotives
1849 Fairfield
Bristol and Exeter Railway Fairfield steam carriage
The Bristol and Exeter Railway Fairfield was an experimental broad gauge self-propelled steam carriage. In later use the carriage portion was removed and it was used as a small shunting locomotive.-Fairfield:...

– a steam railmotor
1851 2-2-2T locomotives
Bristol and Exeter Railway 2-2-2T locomotives
The seven Bristol and Exeter Railway 2-2-2T locomotives were small 2-2-2 well tank locomotives designed by James Pearson for working branch lines such as those to Tiverton and Clevedon...

– 7 small tank locomotives
1854 4-2-4T locomotives – 8 locomotives with 9 feet wheels
1855 4-4-0ST locomotives
Bristol and Exeter Railway 4-4-0T locomotives
The 26 Bristol and Exeter Railway 4-4-0ST locomotives were broad gauge 4-4-0 saddle tank steam locomotives. They first entered service in 1855 and the last was withdrawn in 1892...

– 26 saddle tank locomotives
1856 0-6-0 locomotives – 6 goods locomotives
1859 4-2-4T replacements – 2 locomotives with 7 feet 6 inch wheels
1866 0-6-0ST locomotives
Bristol and Exeter Railway 0-6-0T locomotives
The Bristol and Exeter Railway 0-6-0T locomotives were two different types of 0-6-0T locomotives built for the Bristol and Exeter Railway. On 1 January 1876 the Bristol and Exeter Railway was amalgamated with the Great Western Railway, after which the locomotives were given new numbers.-Broad...

– 2 small tank locomotives
1868 4-2-4T renewals – 4 locomotives with 8 feet 10 inch wheels
1870 2-4-0 locomotives – 10 passenger locomotives
1872 0-4-0T locomotives
Bristol and Exeter Railway 0-4-0T locomotives
The Bristol and Exeter Railway 0-4-0T locomotives were two small 0-4-0T locomotives built for shunting by the Bristol and Exeter Railway. On 1 January 1876 the Bristol and Exeter Railway was amalgamated with the Great Western Railway, after which the locomotives were given new numbers.* 91 GWR No....

– 2 small well tank locomotives
1872 0-6-0 locomotives
GWR Swindon Class
The Great Western Railway Swindon Class 0-6-0 broad gauge steam locomotives for goods train work. This class was introduced into service between November 1865 and March 1866, and withdrawn between June 1887 and the end of the GWR broad gauge in May 1892...

– 14 Swindon Class goods locomotives purchased from the Great Western Railway
Great Western Railway
The Great Western Railway was a British railway company that linked London with the south-west and west of England and most of Wales. It was founded in 1833, received its enabling Act of Parliament in 1835 and ran its first trains in 1838...
1874 2-4-0 locomotives – 3 convertible passenger locomotives
1874 no. 110 – a small tank engine, originally built for the South Wales Mineral Railway
1874 0-6-0T no. 111
Bristol and Exeter Railway 0-6-0T locomotives
The Bristol and Exeter Railway 0-6-0T locomotives were two different types of 0-6-0T locomotives built for the Bristol and Exeter Railway. On 1 January 1876 the Bristol and Exeter Railway was amalgamated with the Great Western Railway, after which the locomotives were given new numbers.-Broad...

Standard gauge

The Bristol and Exeter Railway operated 28 standard gauge locomotives. Five of these spent a short while working as broad gauge locomotives.

Narrow gauge

The Bristol and Exeter Railway owned two locomotives – numbers 112 and 113 – for working the 3 feet gauge lines in its ballast quarry at Westerliegh, Devon.

Engineering

Broad gauge

Standard gauge

Narrow gauge

Locomotives in numerical order