Invention and Engineering

GWR No. 36

GWR No. 36 was a one-off prototype 4-6-0 steam locomotive constructed at Swindon Works for the Great Western Railway in 1896, the first 4-6-0 ever built for the GWR and one of the first in Britain. It was designed by William Dean and le Fleming comments that "the design is unusual and entirely Dean of the later period, including the only large boiler ever built entirely to his ideas."

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See also

• ▸Carnot heat engine
• ▸Friedrich Wilhelm Felix von Bärensprung
• ▸Commonwealth Railways D class

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