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==Locomotives== * '''''Alligator''''' (1848 - 1873) :An [[alligator]] is a large kind of reptile. * '''''Bacchus''''' (1848 - 1873) :This locomotive was built using the boiler from the unsuccessful ''[[GWR Hurricane locomotive|Hurricane]]''. :[[Dionysus|Bacchus]] was the Roman god of the harvest, a name that had been carried by one of the [[GWR Charles Tayleur locomotives|Charles Tayleur locomotives]] built in 1837. * '''''Behemoth''''' (1848 - 1873) :This locomotive was sold to the engineers constructing the [[Severn Tunnel]]. The [[Behemoth]] is a monster in the Book of Job in the Bible. * '''''Caliban''''' (February 1848 - April 1873){{sfn|Reed|1953|p=B21}} :[[Caliban]] was a 'creature' from Shakespeare's ''[[The Tempest]]''.{{sfn|Davies|1993|p=P111}} * '''''Mammoth''''' (1848 - 1873) :A [[mammoth]] is an extinct form of elephant. * '''''Pyracmon''''' (1847 - 1872) :[[Pyraemon|Pyracmon]] is one of the Greek mythological figures known as the [[Cyclopes]]. * '''''Steropes''''' (1848 - 1871) :[[Steropes]] is also one of the Greek mythological figures known as the Cyclopes.
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