Taurus was an broad gauge locomotive operated by the South Devon Railway. It was a very different locomotive to all the other s used on the South Devon Railway. It was much smaller and was normally used on one of the branches, where it would regularly work passenger trains, or on the dockside lines in the

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area. It was built by the

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and was a saddle tank similar to 2-4-0 Prince. On 1 February 1876 the South Devon Railway was amalgamated with the Great Western Railway, all its locomotives were given numbers by their new owners but continued to carry their names too. After the gauge conversion on 21 May 1892 ''Taurus'' was unused for a while but in 1894 it was converted to standard gauge and worked in this form as no. 1326 until 1905.

Locomotive

* ''Taurus'' (1869 – 1892) GWR no. 2170 :The name comes from the Greek word for bull and represents a constellation. ''See

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''.

References

* * * * * Railway company records at

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Taurus Taurus is Latin for 'bull' and may refer to: * Taurus (astrology), the astrological sign * Taurus (constellation), one of the constellations of the zodiac * Taurus (mythology), one of two Greek mythological characters named Taurus * '' Bos tauru ...

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