Photographs of GWR 'Broad Gauge' locomotives are not commonplace. This fascinating circa 1880 view at an unknown station, shows GWR 2001, one of the 1849-built Bristol & Exeter Railway 4-2-4 locomotives that had been absorbed into GWR stock in 1877. George Armstrong had this class rebuilt at Swindon to the form seen here as a 4-2-2.

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