- GWR 9400 Class
The
Great Western Railway (GWR) 9400 Class is a class of0-6-0 pannier tank steam locomotive.Overview
The first ten were built by the GWR with the remaining 200 being built by private contractors for
British Railways . These were the last steam engines to be built by the GWR.There was one detail difference between the two batches. The GWR-built batch had
superheater s but the others did not.They were essentially a pannier tank version of the 2251 Class. They were numbered 9400 - 9499, 8400 - 8499, and 3400 - 3409. BR gave them the power classification 4F.
Numbers 8400 to 8406 were used on the
Lickey Incline after its transferral to theWestern Region of British Railways .Build details
*9400-9409 - Great Western, Swindon -
1947
*9410-9459 -Robert Stephenson and Hawthorns -1950
*9460-9489 - Robert Stephenson and Hawthorns -1950 -1953
*8400-8449 -W. G. Bagnall -1949 -1954
*8450-8479 -Yorkshire Engine Company -1949 -1952
*8480-8499 - Robert Stephenson and Hawthorns -1952
*9490-9499 - Yorkshire Engine Company -1954 -1955
*3400-3409 - Yorkshire Engine Company -1955 -1956 Preservation
Two have been preserved:
* 9400 at
Swindon Steam Railway Museum
* 9466 at based at theBuckinghamshire Railway Centre but does visit other railways from time to time. The locomotive is operational and mainline certificated.References
* A Pictorial Record of Great Western Engines, J.H.Russell, 1975
ee also
*
GWR 0-6-0PT – "list of classes of GWR 0-6-0 pannier tank, including table of preserved locomotives"External links
* http://www.greatwestern.org.uk/m_in_060.htm
* [http://www.9466.co.uk/ Website for preserved 9466]
* [http://www.gwr.org.uk/nopanniers.html Guide to GWR Pannier Tank Classes]
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