GWR 0-4-0ST

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.

GWR No. 1340 Trojan preserved at Didcot Railway Centre

Details
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Railway Name/Number Builder Works no. Build date GWR no. BR no. Withdrawal date Notes
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]
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

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.

  • GWR 1338 preserved at Didcot
  • GWR 701 was scrapped but this is Andrew Barclay 1964/1929 posing as GWR 701
  • BR 1152 at Danygraig in 1960
  • Former Powlesland & Mason dock tank 942 taken over by the GWR in 1924, renumbered 1153 by BR/WR and withdrawn in 1955.It was built by Hawthorn, Leslie in 1903
  • No. 1144 on the Gwili Railway at Bronwydd Arms, 27 June 1992.

See also

References
  1. "Rail UK British Railway Steam Locomotive". Railuk.info. Retrieved 24 December 2015.
  2. "Rail UK British Railway Steam Locomotive". Railuk.info. Retrieved 24 December 2015.
  3. "Rail UK British Railway Steam Locomotive". Railuk.info. Retrieved 24 December 2015.
  4. "Rail UK British Railway Steam Locomotive". Railuk.info. Retrieved 24 December 2015.
  5. "Rail UK British Railway Steam Locomotive". Railuk.info. Retrieved 24 December 2015.
  6. "Rail UK British Railway Steam Locomotive". Railuk.info. Retrieved 24 December 2015.
  7. "Rail UK British Railway Steam Locomotive". Railuk.info. Retrieved 24 December 2015.
  8. "Rail UK British Railway Steam Locomotive". Railuk.info. Retrieved 24 December 2015.
  9. "Rail UK British Railway Steam Locomotive". Railuk.info. Retrieved 24 December 2015.
  10. "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.
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