During the 1953 production of the Ealing comedy The Titfield Thunderbolt, 14xx locomotives Nos. 1401 and 1456 (doubling as 1401) were specially assigned to the film shoot, which took place primarily in the Limpley Stoke area.

The Great Western Railways No. 1401 was a 0-4-2T 1400 class tank engine built by the Great Western Railway. The Great Western Railways No. 1401 was built in August 1932 at Swindon as No. 4801. It was the second member of the 4800 class 0-4-2, which totalled 75 by 1936. In 1946, the locomotive...

The GWR 1400 Class is a class of 0-4-2 T tank engine steam locomotives designed by the Great Western Railway and built by Swindon Works for branch line passenger work.

Under George Jackson Churchward, the system applied by William Dean broke down, and new classes simply took the next free block of hundred numbers starting at xx01, with experimental engines numbered in odd gaps in the earlier series of numbers, usually below 110.

Two of these engines (GWR 1401 and GWR 1450,) played prominent roles in the film The Titfield Thunderbolt. Locomotive 1401 starred as the main locomotive of the Titfield–Mallingford branch until being deliberately derailed & damaged beyond repair; locomotive 1450 (with false numberplates fitted) doubled as 1401 for some scenes, to allow ...

The 3511 2-4-0Ts were a tank engine version of the Stella Class 2-4-0s, presumably a part of Dean's standardisation exercises. They were a much larger engine than the Metros with 17" by 26" cylinders and Class P (Dean Goods) boilers.

Great Western Railway steam locomotives, 1400 class details

The very last of the class, 1450 and 1442 worked out their final days on the former LSWR branch to Lyme Regis after the venerable Adams 0415 class 4-4-2 radial tank engines were withdrawn.

1401 is a black GWR 1400 Class tank engine who spawns at Barrow-In-Furness in the second version of the game. He spawns in a shed near Elsbridge in the third version. The Great Western Railways No. 1401 was built in August 1932 at Swindon as No. 4801.

Maurice is a GWR 1400 who works on the Chestering & West Dorset Railway on the Island of New Chester. Maurice is based on the Great Western Railway's 14XX Class of 0-4-2 Tank Engines. Designed by Charles Collet, 75 locomotives were constructed at the GWR's Works at Swindon between 1932 and 1936.