The Great Western Railway Waverley Class were 4-4-0 broad gauge steam locomotives for express passenger train work.

The class was introduced into service between February and June 1855, and withdrawn between February 1872 and November 1876. From about 1865, the Waverley Class was known as the Abbot Class.

The names are mostly inspired by the Waverley novels of Sir Walter Scott.

Locomotives

  • Reed, P. J. T. (February 1953). White, D. E. (ed.). The Locomotives of the Great Western Railway, Part 2: Broad Gauge. Kenilworth: RCTS. p. B23. ISBN 0-901115-32-0. OCLC .{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: ignored ISBN errors (link)
  • Waters, Laurence (1999). . Hersham: Ian Allan Publishing. ISBN 978-0-7110-2634-6 – via Archive.org.

External links

  • - drawing from Sir Daniel Gooch's sketchbook
  • - photograph of Rob Roy about to be re-railed following an accident