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Under the terms of the Railways Act 1921, the Great Western Railway (GWR) amalgamated with six companies – the "constituent companies" - and absorbed a large number of others – the "subsidiary companies". [1]
The Locomotives of the Great Western Railway, Part 3: Absorbed Engines 1854-1921. The Railway Correspondence and Travel Society. 1956. Ottley, George (1983). A Bibliography of British Railway History (2nd ed.). London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office. p. 475. ISBN 0112903347.
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 .
The exception to this rule was that any broad gauge locomotives the GWR absorbed from other railways (in particular, the South Devon Railway and Bristol and Exeter Railway) were given numbers in the 2000-2199 series. This applied even where locomotives had carried names under their previous owner (indeed, these names were usually removed by the ...
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The GWR 0-4-0ST steam locomotives were acquired by the Great Western Railway at the 1923 grouping. They came from small railways (mostly in South Wales ) and from contractors. Some of them survived into British Railways ownership in 1948 and a few are preserved.
By 1922 when the Great Western Railway had taken control, it had run 483,189 miles, and by 1923 was given a major overhaul, receiving a new boiler from the West Yard Works. [2] Absorbed into the GWR fleet, No. 28 was renumbered No. 450, and given a GWR-style cover over its safety valve, its external design was unchanged.
GWR No. 1340 is an 0-4-0 ST steam locomotive, built in 1897 (Works No. 1386) by the Avonside Engine Company of Bristol, England. Its first owners were Messrs Dunn & Shute of Newport Town Dock. [1] In 1903 it was purchased by the Alexandra Docks Railway. This was absorbed into the Great Western Railway in 1923.