GWR 0-4-0ST

GWR No. 1340 Trojan preserved at Didcot Railway Centre

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.	Notes
Ystalyfera Tin Works	Hercules	Peckett	810	1900	—	1	Taken into stock in 1948
Swansea Harbour Trust	3	Hudswell Clarke		1905	150	—
Swansea Harbour Trust	5	Andrew Barclay	1045	1905	701	1140	Withdrawn 1958[1]
Swansea Harbour Trust	7	Peckett		1899–1904	886	—
Swansea Harbour Trust	8	Peckett		1899–1904	926	—
Swansea Harbour Trust	9	Peckett		1899–1904	930	—
Swansea Harbour Trust	10	Peckett	974	1904	933	—	Sold to National Coal Board in 1928
Swansea Harbour Trust	11	Peckett		1906	929	1141
Swansea Harbour Trust	12	Peckett	1105	1908	968	1143	Withdrawn 1960[2]
Swansea Harbour Trust	13	Hawthorn Leslie	2781	1909	974	1144	Withdrawn 1960[3]
Swansea Harbour Trust	14	Hudswell Clarke	939	1911	943	1142	Withdrawn 1959[4]
Swansea Harbour Trust	15	Peckett	1282	1912	1085	1146	Withdrawn 1951[5]
Swansea Harbour Trust	16	Peckett	1302	1913	1086	1147	Withdrawn 1951[6]
Swansea Harbour Trust	18	Peckett	1522	1918	1098	1145	Withdrawn 1959[7]
Powlesland and Mason	3	Peckett	1328	1907	696	1150	Withdrawn 1952[8]
Powlesland and Mason	4	Peckett	1449	1913	779	1151	Sold 1964
Powlesland and Mason	5	Brush Electrical	301	1903	795	—	Rebuilt with pannier tanks in 1926
Powlesland and Mason	6	Brush Electrical	314	1906	921	—	Sold to Berry Wiggins & Co. Ltd. in 1928. On display at the Snibston Discovery Museum until March 2016.
Powlesland and Mason	7	Avonside		1874	925	—	Ex GWR 1330; formerly South Devon Railway Rook. Purchased in 1906
Powlesland and Mason	11	Peckett		1907	927	—
Powlesland and Mason	12	Peckett		1907	935	1152	Withdrawn 1961[9]
Powlesland and Mason	14	Andrew Barclay	1273	1912	928
Powlesland and Mason	Dorothy	Hawthorn Leslie	2558	1903	942	1153	Withdrawn 1955[10]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				1341	—
Taff Vale Railway	267	Hudswell Clarke		1876	1342	—
Taff Vale Railway	266	Hudswell Clarke		1876	1343	—
West Cornwall Railway	Fox	Avonside	913	1872	1385	—	Sold 1912

In fiction

The character Percy the Small Engine from The Railway Series takes some influences, particularly the water tank, from the 1340 0-4-0ST, but also from the larger 0-6-0ST 1361 class.

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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  BR 1152 at Danygraig in 1960

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  Former Powlesland & Mason dock tank 942 taken over by the GWR in 1924, renumbered 1153 by BR/WR and withdrawn in 1955.It was built by Hawthorn, Leslie in 1903

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  No. 1144 on the Gwili Railway at Bronwydd Arms, 27 June 1992.

See also

• Locomotives of the Great Western Railway

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.

References

1. "Rail UK British Railway Steam Locomotive". Railuk.info. Retrieved 2015-12-24.
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4. "Rail UK British Railway Steam Locomotive". Railuk.info. Retrieved 2015-12-24.
5. "Rail UK British Railway Steam Locomotive". Railuk.info. Retrieved 2015-12-24.
6. "Rail UK British Railway Steam Locomotive". Railuk.info. Retrieved 2015-12-24.
7. "Rail UK British Railway Steam Locomotive". Railuk.info. Retrieved 2015-12-24.
8. "Rail UK British Railway Steam Locomotive". Railuk.info. Retrieved 2015-12-24.
9. "Rail UK British Railway Steam Locomotive". Railuk.info. Retrieved 2015-12-24.
10. "Rail UK British Railway Steam Locomotive". Railuk.info. Retrieved 2015-12-24.

External links

• Rail UK database