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  Great Bear Lodge   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
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GWR 111 The Great Bear - The Great Bear, number 111, was a locomotive of the Great Western Railway.
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 Great Western Railway   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Various other railways were built in the area to connect with the GWR: The Bristol and Exeter Railway reached Exeter by 1844, The Cheltenham and Great Western Union Railway linked Swindon to Gloucester and Cheltenham in 1845, and the Bristol and Gloucester Railway brought the broad gauge to Gloucester in 1844.
A notable locomotive (not of the Star class), was 111 The Great Bear, the first 4-6-2 locomotive in the United Kingdom.
Though this appeared to be a great coup for the GWR, the coal traffic declined significantly as the use of coal as a naval fuel declined, and within a decade the GWR was itself the largest single user of Welsh coal.
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 Great Bear Lodge
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 Great Western Railway - UK Railways - a Wikia wiki
Various other railways were built in the area to connect with the GWR: The Bristol and Exeter Railway reached Exeter by 1844, The Cheltenham and Great Western Union Railway linked Swindon to Gloucester and Cheltenham in 1845, and the Bristol and Gloucester Railway brought the broad gauge to Gloucester in 1844.
Two notable locomotives were 111 The Great Bear, the first 4-6-2 locomotive in the United Kingdom and 3717 City of Truro arguably the first locomotive to be recorded at a speed of 100mph in 1904.
Though this appeared to be a great coup for the GWR, the coal traffic declined significantly as the use of coal as a naval fuel declined, and within a decade the GWR was itself the largest single user of Welsh coal.
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 Great Bear - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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 Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Great Bear
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 Great Western Railway information - Search.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
The Great Western Railway originated from the desire of Bristol merchants to maintain the position of their port as the second port in the country and the chief one for American trade.
Two notable locomotives were 111 The Great Bear, the first 4-6-2 locomotive in the United Kingdom and 3440 City of Truro, the first locomotive to be recorded at a speed of 100 mph (160 km/h) in 1904 (although this speed has never been formally confirmed).
The traditions of the GWR are kept alive by many heritage railways including at Didcot Railway Centre, the South Devon Railway, the Severn Valley Railway, the Paignton and Dartmouth Steam Railway, the Gloucestershire and Warwickshire Railway and at Tyseley Locomotive Works.
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 GWR 111 The Great Bear - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Great Bear, renamed Viscount Churchill in 1924
The Great Bear, number 111, was a locomotive of the Great Western Railway.
It was the first 4-6-2 Pacific locomotive in the United Kingdom, and the only of that type ever built by the GWR, who subsequently persisted with the tried and true 4-6-0 locomotive type.
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 Informat.io on Great Western Railway
The Great Western Railway originated from the desire of Bristol merchants to maintain the position of their port as the second port in the country and the chief one for American trade.
Two notable locomotives were 111 The Great Bear, the first 4-6-2 locomotive in the United Kingdom and 3440 City of Truro, the first locomotive to be recorded at a speed of 100 mph (160 km/h) in 1904 (although this speed has never been formally confirmed).
The traditions of the GWR are kept alive by many heritage railways including at Didcot Railway Centre, the South Devon Railway, the Severn Valley Railway, the Paignton and Dartmouth Steam Railway, the Gloucestershire and Warwickshire Railway and at Tyseley Locomotive Works.
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 NOTTINGHAM VICTORIA - RAIL
The Great Western Railway was in a favourable position at grouping in 1923; it was, basically, what it had been before.
The turn-of-the-century Great Western Railway was powered by the locomotives of Dean, characterised by their late Victorian robustness, inside cylinders and double frames.
The locomotive was used to great effect in the Welsh valleys, and helped standardise the variable nature of the fleets of the old railway companies, often worse for wear.
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 Great Western locomotive types
From charts supplied by his GWR opposite number, Mr Nicholls, Stemp saw that the GWR 2-8-0 regularly took 28 loaded wagons over the 9 miles 22 chains between Lostwithiel and Doublebois, where the ruling gradient was 1 in 58, in 29 minutes.
Chapter 1 may be devoted to The Great Bear, but Allen was far from enthusiastic: "The Great Bear was one of the very few locomotive types that Swindon has produced, and in particular among Churchward designs, to which the word 'failure' could be applied.".
It was also handicapped by the great length of the boiler barrel, as in the absence of a combustion chamber the tubes were unduly long in relation to their diameter and so steaming was not as free as it should have been.
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 The Steam Locomotive Paintings of WG Eaton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
However, in the 1870's, the Great Western set about converting their whole broad-gauge system to that of 4ft 8 ½ inch gauge which was finally completed in 1892.
Great Western Railway Superintendent William Dean built locomotives of the 4-2-2 Achilles class between 1894 and 1899.
A Great Western Railway 4-6-0 4-cylinder locomotive No.4046 'Princess Mary' of the Star class is seen hauling a North to West express near Church Stretton in the 1930's.
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 GWR 111 The Great Bear at AllExperts
The Great Bear, number 111, was a locomotive of the Great Western Railway.
It was the first 4-6-2 "Pacific" locomotive in the United Kingdom, and the only of that type ever built by the GWR, who subsequently persisted with the tried and true 4-6-0 locomotive type.
In 1924 it was rebuilt as a Castle Class locomotive and given the name Viscount Churchill though it retained its number.
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 AESHOP Stock List
Great Western Railway's No. 111 The Great Bear steam locomotive, modeled as it was in the early 1920s.
This is a representation of a Star Class 4 cylinder 4-6-0 locomotive built by the Great Western Railway in 1907 as part of the first batch.
Although it is sad we will never see her run again The National collection have decided that since every nut and bolt is per Swindon Spec and plans and completed in the works it is a piece of industrial archeology and so cannot be dismantled to get her running again.
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 Kids.Net.Au - Encyclopedia > Great Western Railway   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
The Great Western Railway was a British railway company, linking South West England and South Wales with London.
Birmingham was reached in 1852 (although the GWR had innitailly meant to build to Rugby instead of Birmingham), and Birkenhead (on standard gauge track) in 1854.
After 1902 G. Churchward developed a distinctive style of locomotive in 4-4-0 and later 4-6-0 configuration, with flat-topped fireboxes, tapered boilers, long smokeboxes and much standardisation of parts.
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 Great Western 'Pacific' steam locomotive, 'The Great Bear'
It has been said that it was built purely for prestige purposes as this was the first Pacific 4-6-2 created in Britain, while others say that G.
Modifications were made to the superheating of the boiler, but with the 1914-8 war and advances in 4-6-0 locomotive designs, insufficient development work was given to The Great Bear.
on the 7th of January 1924, when the locomotive needed heavy repairs to its boiler, it was decided to dismantle The Great Bear after just 527,272 miles and use parts of the engine rebuilt into a Castle class locomotive with the same number of 111 but named Viscount Churchill.
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 Charles Benjamin Collett & F.W. Hawksworth
Considering this hostile move it is tempting to wonder whether Collett had been castigated for scrapping The Great Bear and had been directly instrumental in arranging the locomotive exchange in 1925 before the LNER had time to introduce improvements to the valve gear on the A1.
The performance of the A1 on the Great Western frequently out-classed that of the Castle, but was partly hindered by the poor quality of the GWR permanent way.
He joined the GWR as an apprentice at Swindon in 1898 and was appointed draughtsman in 1905 when he worked on Churchward's Pacific The Great Bear.
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 All Lots Listing, GCR Auction, Sale 105
It was one of the most modern engines absorbed by the GWR at the 1922 Grouping when it received its GWR numberplates, originally fitted to the tank sides but later moved to the bunker sides in accordance with normal GWR practice.
By the end of its GWR days it had moved to Stafford Road where it spent the rest of its days apart from a final move back to Old Oak from where it was withdrawn in December 1962.
Ex GWR Llantrisant-Tondu route, the Northern part of this section closed in 1967 when the line was truncated, the section from the Main Line to Coed Ely Colliery remaining in use until 1983.
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 The Constitution of the Six (Iroquois) Nations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
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 GWR
The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company, linking South West England and South Wales with London.
Birmingham was reached in 1852, at Snow Hill (although the GWR had initially meant to build to Rugby instead of Birmingham), and Birkenhead (on standard gauge track) in 1854.
A notable locomotive (not of the Star class), was 111 The Great Bear, the first 4-6-2 locomotive in the United Kingdom.
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 www.6024.com - 6024 Preservation Society Ltd - History page
Churchward was constantly searching for improvements and innovation in his designs, and arguably by the early 1920s the Great Western‘s 2-cylinder and 4-cylinder 4-6-0 designs were substantially superior to the locomotives of the other railway groupings.
However, there was also a disparate stable of locomotives from the pre-grouping railways at the GWR‘s disposal, and as with the other big four railways Collett had the task of rationalising the fleet.
Collett therefore applied a pragmatic, economist‘s approach to the design of the Great Western‘s next generation of motive power, adapting and enlarging Churchward‘s earlier 2-cylinder and 4-cylinder designs, developing the Castles from the Stars and the Halls‘from the Saints.
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 Railway Collectors' Journal reporting Railwayana Auctions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
Bears a brass side plate embossed LMS and stamped with the number 57291.
The front and edge of the plate is basically ex loco with much original paint, the back has been cleaned but bears the scars of all the years on the loco.
The case is beautifully engraved G.W.R 1085 and this number also appears on the inside of the case and on the movement.
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 Aircheck UK
Shareholders were approached by GWR who said they rather wanted CRG and were prepared to throw over 20 times the company's turnover for 1994 to get it.
GWR were particuarly excited about the prospect, lifted by the Government's lifting of the ownership ceiling from 20 to 35 stations.
In 1994, GWR, as part of their mass acquisition of any radio station that moved, took control of Midlands Radio Group.
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 GWR 4073 Class at AllExperts   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-17)
The Castle class locomotives were a group of 4-6-0 steam locomotive of the Great Western Railway.
Although most were built new, sixteen locos were rebuilt from older locomotives—fifteen Star Class locomotives; and the Great Western Railway's sole 4-6-2 locomotive, number 111 The Great Bear.
The Castle class was noted for superb performance on the Cheltenham Flyer during the 1930s: on June 6th 1932, pulled by 5006 Tregenna Castle, the train covered 77 miles (124 km) from Swindon to Paddington at an average speed of 81.68 miles per hour (131.45 km/h).
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