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The Great Western Railway (GWR) 4300 Class is a class of 2-6-0 (mogul) steam locomotives, designed by G.J. Churchward for mixed traffic duties. 342 were built from 1911–1932.
Railway Operating Division. GWR 4300 Class 5322, preserved in ROD khaki livery. The Railway Operating Division (ROD) was a division of the Royal Engineers formed in 1915 to operate railways in the many theatres of the First World War. It was largely composed of railway employees and operated both standard gauge and narrow gauge railways.
Didcot Railway Centre. Locomotives 5051, 29 (visiting), 2999, 3738, and others sitting in front of the engine shed. Didcot Railway Centre is a railway museum and preservation engineering site in Didcot, Oxfordshire, England. The site was formerly a Great Western Railway engine shed and locomotive stabling point.
The first Locomotives of the Great Western Railway (GWR) were specified by Isambard Kingdom Brunel, but Daniel Gooch was soon appointed as the railway's Locomotive Superintendent. He designed several different 7 ft 1⁄4 in (2,140 mm) broad gauge types for the growing railway, such as the Firefly and later Iron Duke Class 2-2-2s.
The first locomotive to be the subject of a rescue appeal was GWR 4300 Class 5322, which eventually did leave Barry in March 1969, becoming the third locomotive to leave, [9] but the first to be bought and actually moved from the yard was Midland Railway 3835 Class No. 43924 in September 1968.
GWR classes (98 in total) 6 GWR 2800 Class 2-8-0 - No. 2807 was the oldest locomotive to leave Woodham's for preservation in January 1981. 9 GWR 2884 Class 2-8-0; 5 GWR 4073 Class Castle class 4-6-0; 5 GWR 4200 Class 2-8-0T; 2 GWR 4300 Class 2-6-0 - No. 5322 was the first GWR locomotive to leave Woodham's for preservation in March 1969. 2 GWR ...
Description: GWR Churchward "43XX" 2-8-0 No.5322 in WWI ROD (Railway Operating Division) khaki livery as carried when in service in France WWI (although the copper cap chmney and brass safety valve cover would surely have been painted over?).
Disposition. 15 rebuilt as Castle class, 1 preserved, remainder scrapped. The Great Western Railway 4000 or Star were a class of 4-cylinder 4-6-0 passenger steam locomotives designed by George Jackson Churchward for the Great Western Railway (GWR) in 1906 and introduced from early 1907. The prototype was built as a 4-4-2 Atlantic (but converted ...