The GWR 0-4-0ST

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s were acquired by the

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at the 1923

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. They came from small railways (mostly in

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) and from contractors. Some of them survived into

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ownership in 1948 and a few are preserved.

Details

Gallery

File:1338_Didcot.jpg, GWR 1338 preserved at Didcot File:Cholsey_and_Wallingford_Railway_2.jpg, GWR 701 was scrapped but this is Andrew Barclay 1964/1929 posing as GWR 701 File:GWR_(Powlesland_%26_Mason)_0-4-0ST_No._1152_at_Danygraig.jpg, BR 1152 at Danygraig in 1960 File:Swansea Danygraig Locomotive Depot, with ex-Powlesland & Mason dock tank geograph-2591722-by-Ben-Brooksbank.jpg, Former Powlesland & Mason dock tank 942 taken over by the GWR in 1924, renumbered 1153 by BR/WR and withdrawn in 1955.It was built by Hawthorn, Leslie in 1903 File:Bronwydd Arms Gwili Railway geograph-3282182-by-Ben-Brooksbank.jpg, No. 1144 on the Gwili Railway at Bronwydd Arms, 27 June 1992.

References

Sources

* Ian Allan ABC of British Railways Locomotives, winter 1957/8 edition, part 1, page 25 * *

External links

Rail UK database
{{GWR absorbed locos 1922 on 0-4-0ST locomotives 0-4-0ST Andrew Barclay locomotives Hudswell Clarke locomotives Hawthorn Leslie and Company locomotives Kitson locomotives Peckett locomotives Avonside locomotives Shunting locomotives