The first locomotives for the Great Western Railway were specified by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, but it was the GWR's first Locomotive Superintendent, Daniel Gooch, who designed the railway's early broad gauge icons such as Fire Fly and Iron Duke. But perhaps the GWR Chief Engineers George Jackson Churchward, who introduced the 4-6-0, and Charles Collett, who was tasked not only with standardisation, but also produced two of the Great Western Railway's iconic locomotive classes, the Kings and Castles.
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