The 3232 Class, 20 locomotives designed by
William Dean and built at Swindon Works 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 ...
in 1892–93, were the GWR's last completely new 2-4-0 design. Their number series was 3232–3251.
Design
They resembled Dean's own
2201 Class and thus also
Armstrong Armstrong may refer to:
Places
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Antarctica
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Australia
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's
806 Class, though they had larger cylinders and a shorter
wheelbase. All received Belpaire boilers in the course of the normal varied reboilerings.
Use
At the start of their careers these engines replaced their sister 2201s on Swindon-Weymouth trains, on South Wales expresses, and on fast North-to-West trains. Others were in the London and Reading areas, where others also moved when s displaced them from express working. A few went later to Machynlleth and Oswestry, where the last survivor was withdrawn in 1930.
References
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3232
2-4-0 locomotives
Standard gauge steam locomotives of Great Britain
Railway locomotives introduced in 1892
Scrapped locomotives
Passenger locomotives