GWR Iron Duke Class
Land Transport

GWR Iron Duke Class

Introduced 1847

The Iron Duke Class carried express trains on the Great Western Railway's broad-gauge system. Large driving wheels suited high-speed running; the surviving full-size Iron Duke is a later replica rather than an original class membe...

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The Iron Duke Class carried express trains on the Great Western Railway's broad-gauge system. Large driving wheels suited high-speed running; the surviving full-size Iron Duke is a later replica rather than an original class member.

Sources & image credits

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Photograph of the later full-size Iron Duke replica; not an original locomotive from the 1847 class.

Image: Iron_Duke_(14420542493).jpg
Creator: Hugh Llewelyn from Keynsham, UK
License: CC BY-SA 2.0

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