The 69 Class designed by
William Dean
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for the
Great Western Railway
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consisted of eight tender locomotives, constructed at Swindon Works between 1895 and 1897. Nominally they were renewals of eight engines that carried the same numbers, these themselves having been renewals by
George Armstrong at Wolverhampton of s designed by
Daniel Gooch
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as long ago as 1855.
In truth the Dean engines were in effect new engines, the only re-used parts being some recently fitted boilers of Swindon pattern. They had driving wheels and
cylinders
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. s, being mixed-traffic engines, were not usually named on the GWR, but all of the 69s did carry names, as follows:
* 69 Avon
* 70 Dart
* 71 Dee
* 72 Exe
* 73 Isis
* 74 Stour
* 75 Teign
* 76 Wye
The "Rivers" were originally allocated to Oxford, and later moved to the Bristol division. They were not long-lived as s, the last being withdrawn in 1918.
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