The 69 Class designed by William Dean for 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 ...

consisted of eight tender locomotives, constructed at Swindon Works between 1895 and 1897. Nominally they were renewals of eight engines that carried the same numbers, these themselves having been renewals by George Armstrong at Wolverhampton of s designed by Daniel Gooch as long ago as 1855. In truth the Dean engines were in effect new engines, the only re-used parts being some recently fitted boilers of Swindon pattern. They had driving wheels and

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. s, being mixed-traffic engines, were not usually named on the GWR, but all of the 69s did carry names, as follows: * 69 Avon * 70 Dart * 71 Dee * 72 Exe * 73 Isis * 74 Stour * 75 Teign * 76 Wye The "Rivers" were originally allocated to Oxford, and later moved to the Bristol division. They were not long-lived as s, the last being withdrawn in 1918.

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