Locomotive names of the United Kingdom beginning with V

Steam locomotives operated in the United Kingdom with names beginning with V.

Name	Railroad, #	Builder, s/n	Build date	Whyte type	Notes
Valiant	LMS 5707			4-6-0
Valour	GCR 1165			4-6-0	Became LNER 6165.
Vancouver	GWR 3401			4-4-0
Ventnor	SR 16			0-4-4T	Operated on the Isle of Wight
Venus	BR 70023	Crewe	8/1951	4-6-2	Wd 12/1967 following an accident at Carlisle; scr 4/1968.
Venus (1st)	GWR			2-2-2
Venus (2nd)	GWR			2-2-2
Venus	NDR			2-4-0
Vernon	LMS 5661			4-6-0
Vesper	GWR			0-6-0
Vesta	GWR			2-2-2
Vesuvius	GWR			0-6-0
Vich Ian Vohr	LNER 9361			4-4-0
Victor Emmanuel	GWR			2-4-0
Victor Wild	LNER 4474			4-6-2
Victoria	GWR			2-4-0
Victoria	LMS 5565			4-6-0
Victory	LMS 5712			4-6-0
Vindictive	LMS 5726			4-6-0
Violet	GWR			2-4-0T
Viper	GWR			2-2-2
Virgil	GWR			4-4-0ST
Virgo	GWR			2-4-0
Viscount Churchill	GWR 111	GWR	9/1924	4-6-0	Ex-The Great Bear, originally built as a 4-6-2, but Ian Allan's The ABC of Great Western Locomotives (March 1944) lists this locomotive as a 4-6-0; retired July 1953. The Great Western Archive mentions that parts of The Great Bear were used to build Viscount Churchill. More information: Wikipedia.
Viscount Horne	GWR 5086			4-6-0
Vivien	BR 73117	Doncaster	11/1956	4-6-0	Wd 3/1967; scr 9/1967.
Vivien	SR 748			4-6-0
Vixen	GWR			0-6-0
Volcano	GWR			0-6-0
Volcano	SDR			0-6-0ST
Vulcan	BR 70024	Crewe	8/1951	4-6-2	Wd 12/1967; scr 4/1968.
Vulcan	GWR			2-2-2
Vulcan	SDR			0-6-0ST
Vulture	GWR			2-2-2

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