GWR Pyracmon Class
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The Great Western Railway
Pyracmon Class 0-6-0
broad gauge steam locomotive
s for goods train work. This class was introduced into service between November 1847 and April 1848, and withdrawn between August 1871 and December 1873. Bacchus was added to the class in May 1849 (and withdrawn in November 1869), having been constructed to broadly the same design from spare parts.
From about 1865, Bacchus became part of the Fury Class, while the remaining locomotives became part of the Caesar Class.
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...
Pyracmon Class 0-6-0
Whyte notation
The Whyte notation for classifying steam locomotives by wheel arrangement was devised by Frederick Methvan Whyte and came into use in the early twentieth century encouraged by an editorial in American Engineer and Railroad Journal...
broad gauge steam locomotive
Locomotive
A locomotive is a railway vehicle that provides the motive power for a train. The word originates from the Latin loco – "from a place", ablative of locus, "place" + Medieval Latin motivus, "causing motion", and is a shortened form of the term locomotive engine, first used in the early 19th...
s for goods train work. This class was introduced into service between November 1847 and April 1848, and withdrawn between August 1871 and December 1873. Bacchus was added to the class in May 1849 (and withdrawn in November 1869), having been constructed to broadly the same design from spare parts.
From about 1865, Bacchus became part of the Fury Class, while the remaining locomotives became part of the Caesar Class.
Locomotives
- Aligator (1848 - 1873)
- An alligatorAlligatorAn alligator is a crocodilian in the genus Alligator of the family Alligatoridae. There are two extant alligator species: the American alligator and the Chinese alligator ....
is a large kind of reptile.- Bacchus (1848 - 1873)
- This locomotive was built using the boiler from the unsuccessful HurricaneGWR Hurricane locomotiveHurricane was the second of a pair of locomotives built for the Great Western Railway by R. & W. Hawthorn & Co. whose design was very different from other steam locomotives...
. - BacchusDionysusDionysus was the god of the grape harvest, winemaking and wine, of ritual madness and ecstasy in Greek mythology. His name in Linear B tablets shows he was worshipped from c. 1500—1100 BC by Mycenean Greeks: other traces of Dionysian-type cult have been found in ancient Minoan Crete...
was the Roman god of the harvest, a name that had been carried by one of the Charles Tayleur locomotivesGWR Charles Tayleur locomotivesThe first 19 locomotives ordered by Isambard Kingdom Brunel for the Great Western Railway included six 2-2-2 Charles Tayleur locomotives. They were built by Charles Tayleur at his Vulcan Foundry but were unsuccessful and rapidly supplemented by the Star Class locomotives ordered by Daniel Gooch...
built in 1837.- Behemoth (1848 - 1873)
- This locomotive was sold to the engineers constructing the Severn TunnelSevern TunnelThe Severn Tunnel is a railway tunnel in the United Kingdom, linking South Gloucestershire in the west of England to Monmouthshire in south Wales under the estuary of the River Severn....
. The BehemothBehemothBehemoth is a mythological beast mentioned in the Book of Job, 40:15-24. Metaphorically, the name has come to be used for any extremely large or powerful entity.-Plural as singular:...
is a monster in the Book of Job in the Bible.- Caliban (February 1848 - April 1873)
- CalibanCalibanCaliban is a character in William Shakespeare's play The Tempest.Caliban may also refer to:* Caliban , a moon of Uranus* Caliban , a metalcore band from Germany* Caliban , an acoustic Celtic folk duo...
was a 'creature' from Shakespeare's The Tempest.- Mammoth (1848 - 1873)
- A mammothMammothA mammoth is any species of the extinct genus Mammuthus. These proboscideans are members of Elephantidae, the family of elephants and mammoths, and close relatives of modern elephants. They were often equipped with long curved tusks and, in northern species, a covering of long hair...
is an extinct form of elephant.- Pyracmon (1847 - 1872)
- Pyracmon is one of the Greek mythical monsters known as the CyclopsCyclopsA cyclops , in Greek mythology and later Roman mythology, was a member of a primordial race of giants, each with a single eye in the middle of his forehead...
.- Steropes (1848 - 1871)
- Steropes is one of the Greek mythical monsters known as the CyclopsCyclopsA cyclops , in Greek mythology and later Roman mythology, was a member of a primordial race of giants, each with a single eye in the middle of his forehead...
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