GWR No. 1334
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GWR No. 1334, and sister locomotives 1335 and 1336, were
steam locomotive A steam locomotive is a locomotive that provides the force to move itself and other vehicles by means of the expansion of steam. It is fuelled by burning combustible material (usually coal, oil or, rarely, wood) to heat water in the loco ...
s which 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 ...
inherited from the
Midland and South Western Junction Railway The Midland and South Western Junction Railway (M&SWJR) was an independent railway built to form a north–south link between the Midland Railway and the London and South Western Railway in England, allowing the Midland and other companies' tr ...
.


History

The locomotives had been numbered 10, 11 and 12 by the M&SWJR. They were re-boilered by the GWR and they were the only M&SWJR locomotives to survive 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 ...
ownership in 1948.


Withdrawal

The locomotives were withdrawn as follows. None is preserved.


Modelling

A 4 mm scale kit is available fro
Nu-Cast


References


External links


GWR 1336 at Andover in 1953
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