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GWR 0-4-0ST

Model of steam locomotive

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Overview

preserved at Didcot Railway Centre 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.

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File:1338_Didcot.jpg GWR 1338 preserved at Didcot File:Cholsey_and_Wallingford_Railway_2.jpg GWR 701 was scrapped but this is Andrew Barclay 1964/1929 posing as GWR 701 File:Bronwydd Arms Gwili Railway geograph-3282182-by-Ben-Brooksbank.jpg No. 1144 on the Gwili Railway at Bronwydd Arms, 27 June 1992.

See also

* Locomotives of the Great Western Railway

Sources

* Ian Allan ABC of British Railways Locomotives, winter 1957/8 edition, part 1, page 25 * *

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