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{{Infobox southern steam loco
|image = TawValley_20150406TawValley Eardington 18092015.jpg|caption = 34027 Taw Valley at Bridgnorth Hay Bridge in 2015
|construc = SR Brighton Works
|wheels = 4-6-2
|weight = 86t
}}
[[File:TawValley_20150406.jpg|thumb|300px|right|34027 under overhaul at Bridgnorth in 2015]]
34027 Taw Valley is a SR West Country Class 4-2-6 'Pacific' designed by Oliver Bulleid, CME of the Southern Railway (SR). Lighter in weight than their sister locomotives, the Merchant Navy class, they could be used on a wide variety of routes including in the south-west of England and the Kent coast. They were a mixed-traffic design, being used for both passenger and freight trains, and were rated 7P6F by British Railways. Originally built with innovative features including air-smoothed casings and chain-driven valve gear, many of the locomotives including 34027 were rebuilt by British Railways in the late 1950s.
