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GWR 1813 Class
Type and origin
Power typeSteam
DesignerWilliam Dean
BuilderGWR Swindon Works
Order numberLots 59, 60
Serial number906–945
Build date1882-1884
Total produced40
Specifications
Configuration:
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 • Whyte0-6-0T
Gauge4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Driver dia.4 ft 6 in (1.372 m)
Wheelbase15 ft 6 in (4.72 m)
Fuel typeCoal
Cylinderstwo
Cylinder size17 in × 24 in (432 mm × 610 mm)
Career
OperatorsGreat Western Railway
British Railways
Retired1937–1949
DispositionAll scrapped

The Great Western Railway's 1813 Class was a series of 40 0-6-0T 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

Table of orders and numbers[1]
Year Quantity Lot No. Works Nos. Locomotive numbers Notes
1882–83 20 59 906–925 1813–1832
1883–84 20 60 926–945 1834–1853

Design

This was the first 0-6-0T design of William Dean and in its concept and dimensions may be regarded as the precursor of all the larger GWR pannier tanks of the 20th century, such as the 5700 and 9400 classes:

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 boilers.

British Railways

No. 1835 alone passed into British Railways stock, to be withdrawn in January 1949.[2]

References

  1. ^ Allcock et al. (1968), p. 26.
  2. ^ le Fleming (1958), pp. E56–E59.
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