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The Firefly class.
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The Lightning - a GWR gem!
Daniel Gooch's 2.4m (8ft) single-wheelers built for GWR's 7ft guage.
Photograph published in The Guiness Railway Book by John Marshall,
Guinness, 1989.
Indeed when Albert, the Prince Consort, travelled the GWR to Bristol, Brunel and Gooch supervised the journey - from the foot plate! It was 1845. Speeds of 65 mph were achieved from Paddington to Slough - faster than the M4 today! With the broad guage track passengers were able to partake of luncheon!
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The Iron Duke class - 1847 - from the Great Western Collection "Daniel Gooch and the Great Western" by David Weston - one of Britain's foremost painters of railway subjects. Published in "Beware of Trains', D. Weston, Ian Allen Ltd, London 1981
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Brunel's Atmospheric Engine - source of images, old photocopies, original publications unknown.
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