GWR 0-4-0ST
Appearance
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The GWR 0-4-0ST steam locomotives were acquired by the Great Western Railway at the 1923 grouping. They came from small railways (mostly in South Wales) and from contractors. Some of them survived into British Railways ownership in 1948 and a few are preserved.
Details
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Railway | Name/Number | Builder | Works no. | Build date | GWR no. | BR no. | Withdrawal date | Notes | image |
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Ystalyfera Tin Works | Hercules | Peckett | 810 | 1900 | — | 1 | Taken into stock in 1948 | ||
Swansea Harbour Trust | 3 | Hudswell Clarke | 725 | 1905 | 150 | — | 1929 | ||
5 | Andrew Barclay | 1045 | 1905 | 701 | 1140 | 1958[1] | |||
7 | Peckett | 739 | 1899 | 886 | — | 1928 | |||
8 | Peckett | 761 | 1899 | 926 | — | 1929 | |||
9 | Peckett | 908 | 1902 | 930 | — | 1927 | |||
10 | Peckett | 974 | 1904 | 933 | — | Sold to National Coal Board in 1928 | |||
11 | Peckett | 1053 | 1906 | 929 | 1141 | 1952 | |||
12 | Peckett | 1105 | 1908 | 968 | 1143 | 1960[2] | |||
13 | Hawthorn Leslie | 2781 | 1909 | 974 | 1144 | 1960[3] | |||
14 | Hudswell Clarke | 939 | 1911 | 943 | 1142 | 1959[4] | |||
15 | Peckett | 1282 | 1912 | 1085 | 1146 | 1951[5] | |||
16 | Peckett | 1302 | 1913 | 1086 | 1147 | 1951[6] | |||
18 | Peckett | 1522 | 1918 | 1098 | 1145 | 1959[7] | ![]() | ||
Powlesland and Mason | 3 | Peckett | 1328 | 1913 | 696 | 1150 | 1952[8] | ||
4 | Peckett | 1449 | 1916 | 779 | 1151 | Sold 1964 | ![]() | ||
5 | Brush Electrical | 301 | 1903 | 795 | — | Rebuilt with pannier tanks in 1926 | |||
6 | Brush Electrical | 314 | 1906 | 921 | — | Sold to Berry Wiggins & Co. Ltd. in 1928. On display at the Snibston Discovery Museum until March 2016. | |||
7 | Avonside | 1053 | 1874 | 925 | — | Ex GWR 1330; formerly South Devon Railway Rook. Purchased in 1906 | |||
11 | Peckett | 1054 | 1907 | 927 | — | 1928 | |||
12 | Peckett | 1179 | 1912 | 935 | 1152 | 1961[9] | Used as static boiler at Didcot Steam shed in early 1960s | ![]() | |
14 | Andrew Barclay | 1273 | 1912 | 928 | 1927 | ||||
Dorothy | Hawthorn Leslie | 2558 | 1903 | 942 | 1153 | 1955[10] | ![]() | ||
Cardiff Railway | 5 | Kitson & Co. | 3799 | 1898 | 1338 | 1338 | Preserved at Didcot | ![]() | |
Alexandra Docks | Trojan | Avonside | 1386 | 1897 | 1340 | — | Preserved at Didcot | ![]() | |
Alexandra Docks | Alexandra | Avonside | 1387 | 1898 | 1341 | — | 1946 | ||
Taff Vale Railway | 267 | Hudswell Clarke | 166 | 1876 | 1342 | — | 1926 | ||
266 | Hudswell Clarke | 159 | 1876 | 1343 | — | 1925 | |||
West Cornwall Railway | Fox | Avonside | 913 | 1872 | 1385 | — | Sold 1912 |
Gallery
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GWR 1338 preserved at Didcot
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GWR 701 was scrapped but this is Andrew Barclay 1964/1929 posing as GWR 701
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No. 1144 on the Gwili Railway at Bronwydd Arms, 27 June 1992.
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ "Rail UK British Railway Steam Locomotive". Railuk.info. Retrieved 24 December 2015.
- ^ "Rail UK British Railway Steam Locomotive". Railuk.info. Retrieved 24 December 2015.
- ^ "Rail UK British Railway Steam Locomotive". Railuk.info. Retrieved 24 December 2015.
- ^ "Rail UK British Railway Steam Locomotive". Railuk.info. Retrieved 24 December 2015.
- ^ "Rail UK British Railway Steam Locomotive". Railuk.info. Retrieved 24 December 2015.
- ^ "Rail UK British Railway Steam Locomotive". Railuk.info. Retrieved 24 December 2015.
- ^ "Rail UK British Railway Steam Locomotive". Railuk.info. Retrieved 24 December 2015.
- ^ "Rail UK British Railway Steam Locomotive". Railuk.info. Retrieved 24 December 2015.
- ^ "Rail UK British Railway Steam Locomotive". Railuk.info. Retrieved 24 December 2015.
- ^ "Rail UK British Railway Steam Locomotive". Railuk.info. Retrieved 24 December 2015.
Sources
[edit]- Ian Allan ABC of British Railways Locomotives, winter 1957/8 edition, part 1, page 25
- Casserley, H. C. & Johnston, Stuart W. (1966). Locomotives at the Grouping 4: Great Western Railway. Shepperton, Middlesex: Ian Allan Limited.
- Whitehouse, Brian (1973). Great Western Engines, Names, Numbers, Types and Classes (1940 to Preservation). Oxford Publishing Company. ISBN 0-902888-21-8.