Editing GWR Ariadne Class (section)

==Naming==
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! Build date !! Retire date !! Name !! Notes
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| 1856 || 1877 || [[Amphion]] || 
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| 1852 || 1879 || [[Ariadne]] ||
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| 1857 || 1877 || [[River Avon (disambiguation)|Avon]] ||
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| 1854 || 1879 || [[Banshee]] ||
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| 1857 || 1872 || [[River Boyne|Boyne]] ||
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| 1854 || 1874 || [[Marcus Junius Brutus|Brutus]] || After withdrawal, ''Brutus'' was sold to the [[Bryndu Coal Company]].
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| 1854 || 1878 || [[Caliph]] ||
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| 1854 || 1877 || [[Cambyses II|Cambyses]] ||
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| 1853 || 1871 || [[Cato the Elder|Cato]] ||
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| 1854 || 1877 || [[Ceres (Roman mythology)|Ceres]] ||
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| 1862 || 1878 || [[Champion]] ||
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| 1861 || 1878 || [[Chronos]] ||
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| 1853 || 1871 || [[Marcus Tullius Cicero|Cicero]] ||
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| 1858 || 1872 || [[River Clyde|Clyde]] ||
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| 1853 || 1875 || Coquette ||
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| 1862 || 1880 || [[Cossack]] ||
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| 1856 || 1872 || [[Creon (king of Corinth)|Creon]] ||
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| 1853 || 1874 || [[Cupid]] ||
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| 1854 || 1878 || [[Cyprus]] ||
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| 1853 || 1877 || [[Diana (mythology)|Diana]] ||
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| 1857 || 1880 || [[River Esk (Solway Firth)|Esk]] ||
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| 1863 || 1883 || [[Aethon]] ||
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| 1853 || 1892 || [[Europa (mythology)|Europa]] || This locomotive was extensively rebuilt at Swindon Works in 1869 and was thus the only member of this large class to survive until the end of the broad gauge on 21 May 1892.
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| 1852 || 1874 || [[Flirt]] ||
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| 1854 || 1872 || [[Flora (mythology)|Flora]] || This locomotive was sold in 1873 to [[M. Moxhan and Company]].
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| 1858 || 1878 || [[River Forth|Forth]] ||
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| 1854 || 1876 || [[Geryon]] ||
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| 1852 || 1880 || [[The Giaour|Giaour]] ||
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| 1861 || 1877 || [[Gladiator]] ||
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| 1856 || 1879 || [[Gyfellion]] ||
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| 1861 || 1878 || [[Hades]] ||
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| 1852 || 1877 || [[Hebe (mythology)|Hebe]] ||
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| 1853 || 1873 || [[Hecuba]] || After it was withdrawn, this locomotive was sold to the [[Dinas Rhondda|Dinas]] Main Coal Company.
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| 1857 || 1883 || [[River Humber|Humber]] || 
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| 1854 || 1874 || [[Iris (mythology)|Iris]] ||
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| 1854 || 1880 || [[Janus (mythology)|Janus]] ||
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| 1861 || 1876 || [[Lagoon]] ||
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| 1852 || 1875 || [[Hero and Leander|Leander]] ||
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| 1863 || 1881 || [[Leonidas I|Leonidas]] ||
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| 1855 || 1872 || [[River Liffey|Liffey]] ||
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| 1863 || 1880 || [[Selene|Luna]] ||
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| 1856 || 1879 || [[Magi]] ||
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| 1857 || 1879 || [[River Mersey|Mersey]] ||
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| 1855 || 1877 || [[Metis (mythology)|Metis]] ||
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| 1854 || 1875 || [[Midas]] ||
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| 1853 || 1877 || [[Minerva]] ||
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| 1853 || 1879 || [[Monarch]] ||
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| 1853 || 1873 || [[Horatio Nelson, 1st Viscount Nelson|Nelson]] || After withdrawal, ''Nelson'' was sold to the [[Star Patent Fuel Company]] in [[Cardiff]].
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| 1855 || 1877 || [[Nemesis (mythology)|Nemesis]] ||
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| 1854 || 1881 || [[Neptune (mythology)|Neptune]] ||
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| 1855 || 1877 || [[Nero]] ||
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| 1854 || 1877 || [[Nimrod]] ||
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| 1855 || 1873 || [[Claudia Octavia|Octavia]] ||
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| 1861 || 1879 || [[Mount Olympus|Olympus]] ||
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| 1861 || 1877 || [[Orpheus]] ||
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| 1854 || 1874 || [[Valentine and Orson|Orson]] ||
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| 1855 || 1877 || [[Osiris]] ||
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| 1856 || 1879 || [[Palas]] ||
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| 1863 || 1880 || [[Pandora]] ||
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| 1856 || 1878 || [[Panthea]] ||
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| 1852 || 1878 || [[Pearl]] ||
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| 1855 || 1876 || [[Pelops]] ||
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| 1861 || 1877 || [[Innovator|Pioneer]] ||
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| 1862 || 1875 || [[Plutarch]] ||
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| 1855 || 1874 || [[Plutus]] ||
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| 1859 || 1875 || [[River Plym|Plym]] || This locomotive was sold to [[V J Barton]].
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| 1853 || 1874 || [[Cupid and Psyche|Psyche]] ||
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| 1862 || 1883 || [[Basilisk|Regulus]] ||
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| 1853 || 1879 || [[Romulus and Remus|Remus]] ||
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| 1855 || 1872 || [[Rhea (mythology)|Rhea]] ||
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| 1859 || 1877 || [[River Rhondda|Rhondda]] ||
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| 1853 || 1877 || [[Romulus and Remus|Romulus]] ||
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| 1854 || 1881 || [[Ruby]] ||
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| 1854 || 1877 || [[Hygieia|Salus]] ||
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| 1857 || 1873 || [[River Severn|Severn]] ||
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| 1861 || 1878 || [[Septimius Severus|Severus]] ||
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| 1861 || 1880 || [[Sirius]] ||
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| 1857 || 1880 || [[River Shannon|Shannon]] ||
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| 1854 || 1878 || [[Sibyl]] ||
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| 1854 || 1873 || [[Sphinx]] ||
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| 1862 || 1878 || [[Sylla]] ||
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| 1861 || 1877 || [[Talbot (disambiguation)|Talbot]] ||
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| 1859 || 1880 || [[River Tamar|Tamar]] ||
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| 1862 || 1876 || [[Tantalus]] ||
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| 1858 || 1881 || [[River Tay|Tay]] ||
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| 1854 || 1877 || [[River Thames|Thames]] || 
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| 1862 || 1880 || [[Theseus]] ||
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| 1853 || 1871 || [[Battle of Trafalgar|Trafalgar]] ||
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| 1857 || 1874 || [[River Tweed|Tweed]] ||
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| 1859 || 1877 || [[River Tyne|Tyne]] ||
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| 1855 || 1879 || [[Typhon]] ||
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| 1853 || 1872 || [[Odysseus|Ulysses]] || After withdrawal, ''Ulysses'' was sold to [[Gorham and Company]].
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| 1854 || 1879 || [[Hesperus|Vesper]] || 
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| 1854 || 1879 || [[Vixen]] ||
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| 1861 || 1877 || [[War hawk|Warhawk]] ||
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| 1861 || 1872 || [[Warrior]] ||
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| 1859 || 1879 || [[River Wear|Wear]] ||
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| 1853 || 1873 || [[Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington|Wellington]] ||
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| 1859 || 1879 || [[River Wye|Wye]] ||
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| 1863 || 1882 || [[Xerxes I of Persia|Xerxes]] ||
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| 1855 || 1877 || [[Zetes]] ||
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| 1853 || 1874 || [[Zina]] ||
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