Steam Locomotive Information

Here is the photo album for Great Western Railway No. 4144, a 2-6-2T located in Didcot, Berkshire. If you would like to suggest additional photos for this album, please click here.

The Great Western Railway built these 'Large Prairie' tank locos for passenger train work. In 2017, 4144 is painted as it would have appeared in the very early days of British Railways (1948). The name is on the side tanks in full, but in Great Western style.

A typical Great Western cab interior.

Left hand cylinder arrangement shows the valve spindle connection to the inside valve gear above the top slide bar. A typical Great Western arrangement for outside cylinder locos.

GWR 2-6-2T No.4144, a celebrity visitor to the Worth Valley Railway for their Spring Gala, emerging from Mytholmes Tunnel and climbing under Ebor Lane, Haworth on 6th March 2020

GWR 2-6-2T No.4144, poses with Taff Vale Railway No.85 at Keighley during the Worth Valley Railway Spring Gala, on 6th March 2020

Two 2-6-2Ts together: GWR No.4144 with British Railways No.41241 at Keighley during the Worth Valley Railway Spring Gala, on 6th March 2020

On the Nene Valley Railway in 2021.

Large Prairie 4144 running on the demonstration line at Didcot during the 'Four Castles' event in March 2023.


Great Western Railway 2-6-2T No. 4144 Didcot, Berkshire, UK	Location: Didcot Railway Centre Status: Operational