Great Western Railway absorbed locomotives
Rolling stock of various British railways merged into GWR
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The grouping
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] All of the constituent companies and ten of the subsidiary companies owned locomotives,[1] ranging from the Taff Vale Railway which had 275 locomotives (one of which was not taken into GWR stock), to the Cleobury Mortimer and Ditton Priors Light Railway and the Gwendreath Valleys Railway, with just two each.[2] The constituent companies were amalgamated on 1 January 1922, some of the subsidiary companies being absorbed on the same date, the rest following at intervals until July 1923.[3] Two more undertakings, not mentioned in the Act, which were responsible for shunting at Swansea Docks, sold their locomotives to the GWR soon afterwards.[1]
Alexandra (Newport and South Wales) Docks and Railway
Thirty-nine locomotives acquired by the GWR on 1 January 1922.
| Type | Quantity | Nos. | Builder | Year | GWR Nos. | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0-4-0ST | 1 | Trojan | Avonside Engine Company | 1897 | 1340 | Acquired 1903 |
| 0-4-0ST | 1 | Alexandra | Avonside Engine Company | 1898 | 1341 | Acquired 1903 |
| 0-4-2T | 1 | 14 | GWR Wolverhampton | 1877 | 1426 | GWR 517 Class |
| 0-6-0ST | 5 | 1 to 5 | Robert Stephenson & Company | 1898–1900 | 674–678 |
Barry Railway
Brecon and Merthyr Tydfil Junction Railway
Forty-seven locomotives were acquired by the GWR on 1 July 1922
| Type | Quantity | Nos. | Builder | Year | GWR Nos. | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0-6-0ST | 2 | 17–18 | Sharp, Stewart & Co. | 1881 | 2190–1 | [22] |
| 0-6-0ST | 12 | 1–8, 13–16 | 1884–86 | 2177–88 | [23] | |
| 2-4-0T | 5 | 9–12, 25 | Robert Stephenson & Co. | 1888–89, 1898 | 1402/12/52/8/60 | [24] |
| 0-6-2ST | 4 | 19, 20/3/6 | Vulcan Foundry | 1894, 1905 | 1674/7/92, 1833 | [25] |
| 0-6-0ST | 5 | 22, 24, 27–29 | 1896, 1900 | 2169–73 | [26] | |
| 0-6-0ST | 3 | 32–34 | Swindon Works | 1886–87 | 1685/93/4 | Ex-GWR 1661 Class, acquired 1906–07[27] |
| 0-6-2T | 8 | 36–43 | Robert Stephenson & Co. | 1909–10, 1914 | 11, 21, 332, 504, 698, 888, 1084, 1113 | [28] |
| 4-4-2T | 1 | 44 | Beyer Peacock & Co | 1879 | 1391 | Ex-LSWR 46 class, acquired 1914[29] |
| 0-6-2T | 6 | 45–50 | Robert Stephenson & Co. | 1915, 1921 | 1372–5, 1668/70 | [29] |
| 0-6-0T | 1 | 35 | Kerr, Stuart & Co. | 1917 | 2161 | Ex-Railway Operating Division, acquired 1920[30] |
Burry Port and Gwendraeth Valley Railway
Fifteen locomotives were acquired by the GWR on 1 July 1922
| Type | Quantity | Nos. | Builder | Year | GWR Nos. | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0-6-0ST | 2 | 1, 3 | Chapman and Furneaux | 1900–01 | 2192–3 | [31] |
| 0-6-0ST | 4 | 4–7 | Avonside Engine Company | 1903–07 | 2194–6, 2176 | [32] |
| 0-6-0T | 9 | 8–12, 2, 15, 13, 14 | Hudswell Clarke | 1909–19 | 2197, 2163, 2198, 2164/5/2/8/6/7 | [33] |
No. 2164 was withdrawn in 1929, and no. 2163 in 1944; the remaining thirteen were passed on to British Railways, being withdrawn between 1951 and 1959.[12]
Cambrian Railways
Ninety-nine locomotives were acquired by the GWR on 1 January 1922, including five narrow gauge: three on the Vale of Rheidol Railway, and two on the Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway:
| Number | Name | Builder | Wheel arr. |
Year built | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Edward VII | Davies & Metcalfe | 2-6-2T | 1902 | Re-numbered 1212 in 1922. Overhauled by the GWR in 1925 and gained traditional Swindon fittings. Saw very little use following the arrival of the 3 new locomotives. In 1932 1212 moved to Swindon works The official withdrawal date is given as 9 March 1935. It was scrapped shortly afterwards.[34] |
| 2 | Prince of Wales | Davies & Metcalfe | 2-6-2T | 1902 | Renumbered 1213 in 1922. Sent to Swindon works in 1924 and scrapped. The number was immediately re-used for the new locomotive 1213 (now No 9) as part of the pretence of a heavy overhaul of the original locomotive. |
| 3 | Rheidol | Bagnall | 2-4-0T | 1896 | Renumbered 1198 by the GWR in 1923 but withdrawn and scrapped the following year, having never carried its GWR number.[35] |
| Type | Quantity | Nos. | Builder | Year | GWR Nos. | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0-6-0T | 2 | WLLR 1 The Earl and 2 Countess | Beyer, Peacock & Company | 822 and 823 | ||
Cardiff Railway
Cleobury Mortimer and Ditton Priors Light Railway
Two locomotives were acquired by the GWR on 1 January 1922
| Type | Quantity | Nos. | Builder | Year | GWR Nos. | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0-6-0ST | 2 | Cleobury and Burwarton | Manning Wardle | 1908 | 28 and 29 | Both rebuilt as 0-6-0PT |
Gwendreath Valleys Railway
Two 0-6-0ST locomotives were acquired by the GWR on 1 January 1923. One was given the GWR number 26, but the second (Margret) was sold in 1923 without being allocated a GWR number.
Llanelly and Mynydd Mawr Railway
Eight locomotives acquired by the GWR on 1 January 1923
- 312 Andrew Barclay 0-6-0T, George Waddell
- 339 Hudswell Clarke 0-6-0T, Tarndune
- 803 Hudswell Clarke 0-6-0T, Ravelston
- 937 Hudswell Clarke 0-6-0T, Merkland
- 359 Hudswell Clarke 0-6-0ST, Hilda
- 704 Manning Wardle 0-6-0T, Victory
- 944 Avonside Engine Company 0-6-0T, Great Mountain
- 969 Fox, Walker and Company 0-6-0ST, Seymour Clarke
Midland and South Western Junction Railway
Neath and Brecon Railway
Port Talbot Railway and Docks Company
Powlesland and Mason
Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway
Thirty-seven locomotives acquired by the GWR on 1 January 1922
- 164 - 179, 181 Kitson 0-6-2T
- 180, 182 Robert Stephenson & Company 0-6-2T ex Port Talbot Railway
- 728, 1167, 1652, 1660 ex-GWR 1076 Class 0-6-0ST
- 789, 801, 802, 805, 806 Beyer, Peacock & Company 0-6-0T
- 1307, 1309, 1310 Kitson 2-4-2T
- 1710, 1756 ex-GWR 1701 Class 0-6-0ST
- 1825, 1834 ex-GWR 1813 Class 0-6-0ST
- 2756 ex-GWR 2721 Class 0-6-0ST
Rhymney Railway
South Wales Mineral Railway
Five locomotives acquired by the GWR on 1 January 1923
- 817 - 818 ex-South Devon Railway Buffalo class 0-6-0ST
- 1546, 1806, 1811 ex-GWR 645 Class 0-6-0ST
Swansea Harbour Trust
Taff Vale Railway
275 locomotives were acquired by the GWR on 1 January 1922
| Class | Wheels | Introduced | Final TVR nos. | Quantity | First GWR nos. | To BR | Extinct | Notes | Ref |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A | 0-6-2T | 1914 | 3, 7, 10–12, 20, 42/5, 52, 75, 80, 90/1, 120/2–5/7–130/2–6/8–140/4/9, 154/6–160/2/4/5, 400–416 | 58 | 335/7, 343–9, 351/2/6/7, 360–2/4–8, 370–391/3/4/7–9, 401–4/6/8, 438–441 | 58 | 1957 | GWR nos. 401 up allotted 303–9, 312/6, 322 in 1946, renumbered 1947–50 | [36] |
| C | 4-4-2T | 1888 | 170–5 | 6 | 1301–6 | — | 1927 | [37] | |
| D | 0-6-0ST | 1865 | 250, 270 | 2 | 797/8 | — | 1926 | [38] | |
| E | 0-6-0ST | 1873 | 264–5 | 2 | 795/6 | — | 1927 | [39] | |
| H | 0-6-0T | 1884 | 141–3 | 3 | 792–4 | 3 | 1953 | Renumbered 193–5 during 1948/49 | [40] |
| I | 4-4-0T | 1884 | 285–7 | 3 | 999, 1133, 1184 | — | 1925 | [41] | |
| K & L | 0-6-0 | 1874 | 210/7/9, 220, 235/6/9, 242/5, 252/3/9, 261, 281/3/4/8, 297/8, 301/2/4, 313–6, 320/2/5/7/8, 335–7/9, 340, 354/6–360 | 42 | 912–933/5/6/8/9, 941–4/6/8, 968–970/4/8, 984, 1000–2 | — | 1930 | 43 withdrawn 1907–20 | [42] |
| M & M1 | 0-6-2T | 1885 | 4, 5, 14–16, 22/4, 50/1/3/4, 71/4, 86–89, 145–8, 150–3, 163/6–9, 176–181, 344/9, 362/4/5 | 41 | 442–5, 462/6, 478, 481–4/7–493, 503/5–8, 511/3/5/6, 520, 552, 560/7, 573/7–580/2–6 | — | 1934 | [43] | |
| N | 0-6-2T | 1891 | 106/7, 182–9 | 10 | 485/6, 494–6, 498–502 | — | 1934 | [44] | |
| O | 0-6-2T | 1894 | 21/5/6, 33/4, 190 | 6 | 446–8, 452/3, 581 | — | 1930 | [45] | |
| O1 | 0-6-2T | 1894 | 27–29, 37, 41, 60–65, 70/3/8 | 14 | 449–451/4/5, 471–7/9, 480 | — | 1931 | [46] | |
| O2 | 0-6-2T | 1899 | 31/2, 44, 66, 81–5 | 9 | 412/3/5/9, 421/3–6 | — | 1928 | [47] | |
| O3 | 0-6-2T | 1902 | 18/9, 47, 55/7, 92/3/6, 103, 117, 126, 131/7, 155, 161 | 15 | 410/1/6–8, 427–35/7 | 2 | 1948 | Nos. 410/1 to BR | [48] |
| O4 | 0-6-2T | 1907 | 1, 2, 6, 8, 9, 13/7, 35/6/8/9, 43/6/8/9, 56/8/9, 67–9, 94/5/7/8, 101/2/4/5/8–116/8/9, 121 | 41 | 236, 278–302, 310/1/3–5/7–321/4, 333, 409, 414, 420 | 41 | 1955 | Nos. 300 up allotted 200–211, 215–220 in 1946; except for 301/2, 314 these were renumbered in 1946–50. | [49] |
| S & T | 0-4-0ST | 1876 | 266/7 | 2 | 1342/3 | — | 1926 | [50] | |
| U & U1 | 0-6-2T | 1895 | 23, 30, 40, 72/6/7/9, 191–198 | 15 | 587–593/5–600/2/3 | — | 1931 | [51] | |
| V | 0-6-0ST | 1899 | 99, 100, 275, 280, 290/1 | 6 | 786–791 | — | 1930 | [52] |