GWR absorbed locos 1922 on

GWR absorbed locos 1922 on gives details of Great Western Railway absorbed locomotives which do not yet have individual pages.

The Grouping

Under the terms of the Railways Act 1921, the Great Western Railway (GWR) amalgamated with six companies - the "constituent companies" - and absorbed a large number of others - the "subsidiary companies".^[1] All of the constituent companies and ten of the subsidiary companies owned locomotives,^[1] ranging from the Taff Vale Railway which had 275 locomotives (one of which was not taken into GWR stock), to the Cleobury Mortimer and Ditton Priors Light Railway and the Gwendraeth Valleys Railway, with just two each.^[2] The constituent companies were amalgamated on 1 January 1922, some of the subsidiary companies being absorbed on the same date, the rest following at intervals until July 1923.^[3] Two more undertakings, not mentioned in the Act, which were responsible for shunting at Swansea Docks, sold their locomotives to the GWR soon afterwards.^[1]

Company	Status	Date	Locomotives	Notes
Alexandra (Newport and South Wales) Docks and Railway	Constituent	1 January 1922	39	[3][4]
Barry Railway	Constituent	1 January 1922	148	[3][5]
Cambrian Railways	Constituent	1 January 1922	99	[3][6]
Cardiff Railway	Constituent	1 January 1922	36	[3][7]
Rhymney Railway	Constituent	1 January 1922	123	[3][8]
Taff Vale Railway	Constituent	1 January 1922	274	[3][9]
Brecon and Merthyr Tydfil Junction Railway	Subsidiary	1 July 1922	47	[10]
Burry Port and Gwendraeth Valley Railway	Subsidiary	1 July 1922	15	[11]
Cleobury Mortimer and Ditton Priors Light Railway	Subsidiary	1 January 1922	2	[12]
Gwendraeth Valleys Railway	Subsidiary	1 January 1923	2	[13]
Llanelly and Mynydd Mawr Railway	Subsidiary	1 January 1923	8	[14]
Midland and South Western Junction Railway	Subsidiary	1 July 1923	29	[15]
Neath and Brecon Railway	Subsidiary	1 July 1922	15	[16]
Port Talbot Railway and Docks Company	Subsidiary	1 January 1922	22	[17]
Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway	Subsidiary	1 January 1922	37	[18]
South Wales Mineral Railway	Subsidiary	1 January 1923	5	[19]
Powlesland and Mason		1 January 1924	9	[20]
Swansea Harbour Trust		1 July 1923	14	[21]

Alexandra (Newport and South Wales) Docks and Railway

Thirty-nine locomotives acquired by the GWR on 1 January 1922.

Type	Quantity	Nos.	Builder	Year	GWR Nos.	Notes
0-4-0ST	1	Trojan	Avonside	1897	1340	Acquired 1903
0-4-0ST	1	Alexandra			1341	Acquired 1903
0-4-2T	1	14	GWR Wolverhampton	1877	1426	GWR 517 Class
0-6-0ST	5	1 to 5	Robert Stephenson and Company	1898–1900	674–678

Cambrian Railways

Ninety-nine locomotives were acquired by the GWR on 1 January 1922, including five narrow gauge: three on the Vale of Rheidol Railway, and two on the Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway

Type	Quantity	Nos.	Builder	Year	GWR Nos.	Notes
0-6-0T	2	WLLR 1 The Earl and 2 Countess	Beyer, Peacock & Co.		822 and 823

Cleobury Mortimer and Ditton Priors Light Railway

Two locomotives were acquired by the GWR on 1 January 1922

Type	Quantity	Nos.	Builder	Year	GWR Nos.	Notes
0-6-0ST	2	Cleobury and Burwarton	Manning Wardle	1908	28 and 29	Both rebuilt as 0-6-0PT

Gwendraeth Valleys Railway

Two 0-6-0ST locomotives were acquired by the GWR on 1 January 1923. One was given the GWR number 26, but the second (Margret) was sold in 1923 without being allocated a GWR number.

Llanelly and Mynydd Mawr Railway

Eight locomotives acquired by the GWR on 1 January 1923

• 312 Andrew Barclay 0-6-0T, George Waddell
• 339 Hudswell Clarke 0-6-0T, Tarndune
• 803 Hudswell Clarke 0-6-0T, Ravelston
• 937 Hudswell Clarke 0-6-0T, Merkland
• 359 Hudswell Clarke 0-6-0ST, Hilda
• 704 Manning Wardle 0-6-0T, Victory
• 944 Avonside Engine Company 0-6-0T, Great Mountain
• 969 Fox, Walker and Company 0-6-0ST, Seymour Clarke

Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway

Thirty-seven locomotives acquired by the GWR on 1 January 1922

• 164 - 179, 181 Kitson 0-6-2T
• 180, 182 Robert Stephenson and Company 0-6-2T ex Port Talbot Railway
• 728, 1167, 1652, 1660 ex-GWR 1076 Class 0-6-0ST
• 789, 801, 802, 805, 806 Beyer Peacock 0-6-0T
• 1307, 1309, 1310 Kitson 2-4-2T
• 1710, 1756 ex-GWR 1701 Class 0-6-0ST
• 1825, 1834 ex-GWR 1813 Class 0-6-0ST
• 2756 ex-GWR 2721 Class 0-6-0ST

South Wales Mineral Railway

Five locomotives acquired by the GWR on 1 January 1923

• 817 - 818 ex-South Devon Railway Buffalo class 0-6-0ST
• 1546, 1806, 1811 ex-GWR 645 Class 0-6-0ST

See also

• GWR 0-4-0ST
• Welsh 0-6-2T locomotives
• Locomotives of the Great Western Railway

Notes

1. Allcock et al. 1951, p. 15.
2. Allcock et al. 1951, sheet opposite p. 17.
3. Bryan 2010, p. 87.
4. Davies et al. 1966, p. K8.
5. Davies et al. 1966, p. K23.
6. Davies et al. 1966, p. K53.
7. Davies et al. 1966, p. K87.
8. Davies et al. 1966, p. K98.
9. Davies et al. 1966, p. K134.
10. Davies et al. 1966, p. K196.
11. Davies et al. 1966, p. K212.
12. Davies et al. 1966, p. K218.
13. Davies et al. 1966, p. K220.
14. Davies et al. 1966, p. K221.
15. Davies et al. 1966, p. K226.
16. Davies et al. 1966, p. K235.
17. Davies et al. 1966, p. K242.
18. Davies et al. 1966, p. K248.
19. Davies et al. 1966, p. K254.
20. Davies et al. 1966, p. K260.
21. Davies et al. 1966, p. K256.

References

• Allcock, N.J.; Davies, F.K.; le Fleming, H.M.; Maskelyne, J.N.; Reed, P.J.T.; Tabor, F.J. (June 1951). White, D.E., ed. The Locomotives of the Great Western Railway, part one: Preliminary Survey. Kenilworth: RCTS. ISBN 0-901115-17-7.
• Bryan, Tim (May 2010). The Great Western Railway - A Celebration. Hersham: Ian Allan. ISBN 978-0-7110-3498-3. 1005/B2.
• Davies, F. K.; Firth, J. M.; Lucking, J. H.; Thomas, R. E.; Allcock, N. J.; Sterndale, A. C.; Barrie, D. S. M.; Reed, P. J. T.; Mountford, E. R. (April 1966). White, D. E., ed. The Locomotives of the Great Western Railway, part ten: Absorbed Engines, 1922–1947. RCTS. ISBN 0-901115-20-7.