The GWR 1901 Class was a class of 120 small
steam locomotive
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s. Numbered 1901–2020, they were designed by
George Armstrong (responsible to
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at Swindon) and built at the
Wolverhampton railway works
Wolverhampton railway works was in the city of Wolverhampton in the county of Staffordshire, England. It was almost due north of the city centre, and is commemorated with a small display of level crossing gates and a plaque. Known as the Staffo ...
, England, of the
Great Western Railway
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between 1881 and 1895. They had wheels of diameter and a coupled wheelbase of .
Construction
* Nos. 1901-1912 (Lot J2, 1881–82)
* Nos. 1913-1924 (Lot L2, 1882)
* Nos. 1925-1936 (Lot O2, 1883–4)
* Nos. 1937-1948 (Lot Q2, 1886–7)
* Nos. 1949-1960 (Lot R2, 1888)
* Nos. 1961-1972 (Lot T2, 1889–90)
* Nos. 1973-1984 (Lot V2, 1890–91)
* Nos. 1985-1996 (Lot X2, 1891)
* Nos. 1997-2008 (Lot Y2, 1891–92)
* Nos. 2009-2020 (Lot Z2, 1894–5)
Rebuilding
The class was considered to be part of the very similar
850
''For codepage, see CP850.''
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Events
By place
Europe
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Class after the latter was reboilered in the 1890s. The whole series was later rebuilt again as
pannier tanks.
British Railways
Forty-four locomotives survived into
British Railways (BR) ownership in 1948. Their BR numbers were 992 and 1903-2019 (with gaps). BR called them 1901 class, including no. 992 which was from the 850 class.
Only three GWR saddle tank locomotives survived into nationalisation.
Of these two were from the 1901 class, Nos. 1925 and 2007, which were withdrawn in 1951 and 1949. The other was
GWR 2021 Class
The GWR 2021 Class was a class of 140 steam locomotives. They were built at the Wolverhampton railway works of the Great Western Railway between 1897 and 1905. 1897 was the very year of George Armstrong's retirement, so it is uncertain if the ...
No. 2048 which was rebuilt as a pannier tank locomotive shortly after nationalisation and scrapped in 1952.
See also
*
GWR 0-6-0PT
The GWR 0-6-0PT (Pannier Tank), is a type of steam locomotive built by the British Great Western Railway with the water tanks carried on both sides of the boiler, in the manner of panniers. They were used for local, suburban and branch line passen ...
– ''list of classes of GWR , including table of preserved locomotives''
References
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1901
Events
January
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0-6-0ST locomotives
Railway locomotives introduced in 1881
Standard gauge steam locomotives of Great Britain
Scrapped locomotives
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