The

Great Western Railway The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company that linked London with the southwest, west and West Midlands of England and most of Wales. It was founded in 1833, received its enabling Act of Parliament on 31 August 1835 and ran ...

's 1813 Class was a series of 40 built at Swindon Works in two lots of 20 engines each. No. 1813 was sold to the Pembroke & Tenby Railway in May 1883 becoming No.7 ''Holmwood'', retaining this name after being absorbed by the GWR. Nearly all of these engines spent their lives on the GWR's Southern Division.

Construction

Design

This was the first design of William Dean and in its concept and dimensions may be regarded as the precursor of all the larger

GWR pannier tank The GWR 0-6-0PT (Pannier Tank), is a type of steam locomotive built by the British Great Western Railway with the water tanks carried on both sides of the boiler, in the manner of panniers. They were used for local, suburban and branch line pass ...

s of the 20th century, such as the 5700 and 9400 classes: * Inside frames * Wheels diameter, wheelbase * Cylinders

Rebuilding

From 1894 some of the 1813s were rebuilt with saddle tanks, and between 1903 and 1906, six were rebuilt with either short or full-length pannier tanks, resulting in a very early example of this type of engine. The rest were so converted between 1911 and 1925, as had become standard practice on the Great Western. The class also carried an unusually wide variety of different

boiler A boiler is a closed vessel in which fluid (generally water) is heated. The fluid does not necessarily boil. The heated or vaporized fluid exits the boiler for use in various processes or heating applications, including water heating, central h ...

British Railways

No. 1835 alone passed into

British Railways British Railways (BR), which from 1965 traded as British Rail, was a state-owned company that operated most of the overground rail transport in Great Britain from 1948 to 1997. It was formed from the nationalisation of the Big Four British rai ...

stock, to be withdrawn in January 1949.

References

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1813 Events January–March * January 18–January 23 – War of 1812: The Battle of Frenchtown is fought in modern-day Monroe, Michigan between the United States and a British and Native American alliance. * January 24 – T ...

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