had six children. Following her death in 1868, he married Emily Burder in 1870; she died in 1901. His brothers, John, Thomas, and William, were also railway engineers. Legacy GWR Castle Class steam locomotive no. 5070 and British Rail Western Region class 47 diesel locomotive no. D1663 (later 47078, then 47628) were both named Sir Daniel Gooch. Continuing with this tradition, the present Great Western Railway company has named class 800 no. 800004 after Gooch; it runs on the line that Gooch helped to create. A pub in Bayswater, London was named the Daniel Gooch; it closed in 2016. The Sir Daniel Arms, a Wetherspoons pub in Swindon, is also named after Gooch, as is Gooch Street in the same town, one of several streets built to house Great Western railway workers. See also GWR locomotives by Gooch Daniel Gooch standard gauge locomotives Gooch valve gear Gooch Baronets of Clewer Park References Further reading (24 September 2004), Sir Daniel Gooch. Retrieved 9 February 2005. External links Gooch's letter proposing Swindon railway works - Gooch’s Historic letter to Brunel - A Piece of Paper That Changed A Town’s Destiny Photograph of Gooch taken in the 1860s. National Portrait Gallery. Portrait of Gooch. National Portrait Gallery, artist, Francis Grant, 1872. 1816 births 1889 deaths Baronets in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for English constituencies English railway mechanical engineers Locomotive builders and designers People from Bedlington People from Windsor, Berkshire British railway pioneers Submarine communications cables UK MPs 1865–1868 UK MPs 1868–1874 UK MPs 1874–1880 UK MPs 1880–1885 Great Western Railway people Directors of the Great Western Railway 19th-century British engineers Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Cricklade 19th-century British businesspeople Deputy Lieutenants of Wiltshire English Freemasons