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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 | |||
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 | |||
13 | Hawthorn Leslie | 2781 | 1909 | 974 | 1144 | 1960 | |||
14 | Hudswell Clarke | 939 | 1911 | 943 | 1142 | 1959 | |||
15 | Peckett | 1282 | 1912 | 1085 | 1146 | 1951 | |||
16 | Peckett | 1302 | 1913 | 1086 | 1147 | 1951 | |||
18 | Peckett | 1522 | 1918 | 1098 | 1145 | 1959 | ![]() | ||
Powlesland and Mason | 3 | Peckett | 1328 | 1913 | 696 | 1150 | 1952 | ||
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 | 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 | ![]() | ||
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※
References※
- ^ "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※
- 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.