GWR 0-4-0ST

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.

GWR No. 1340 Trojan preserved at Didcot Railway Centre

Details

Railway	Name/Number	Builder	Works no.	Build date	GWR no.	BR no.	Withdrawal date	Notes	image
Ystalyfera Tin Works	Hercules	Peckett	810	1900	—	1		Taken into stock in 1948
Swansea Harbour Trust	3	Hudswell Clarke	725	1905	150	—	1929
	5	Andrew Barclay	1045	1905	701	1140	1958[1]
	7	Peckett	739	1899	886	—	1928
	8		761	1899	926	—	1929
	9		908	1902	930	—	1927
	10		974	1904	933	—		Sold to National Coal Board in 1928
	11		1053	1906	929	1141	1952
	12		1105	1908	968	1143	1960[2]
	13	Hawthorn Leslie	2781	1909	974	1144	1960[3]
	14	Hudswell Clarke	939	1911	943	1142	1959[4]
	15	Peckett	1282	1912	1085	1146	1951[5]
	16		1302	1913	1086	1147	1951[6]
	18		1522	1918	1098	1145	1959[7]
Powlesland and Mason	3	Peckett	1328	1913	696	1150	1952[8]
	4	Peckett	1449	1916	779	1151		Sold 1964
	5	Brush Electrical	301	1903	795	—	1929[9]	Rebuilt with pannier tanks in 1926
	6		314	1906	921	—	1928[9]	Sold to Berry Wiggins & Co. Ltd. in 1928. On display at the Snibston Discovery Museum until March 2016. Now at Mountsorrel Railway.[10]
	7	Avonside	1053	1874	925	—		Ex GWR 1330; formerly South Devon Railway Rook. Purchased in 1906
	11	Peckett	1054	1907	927	—	1928
	12		1179	1912	935	1152	1961[11]	Used as static boiler at Didcot Steam shed in early 1960s
	14	Andrew Barclay	1273	1912	928		1927
	Dorothy	Hawthorn Leslie	2558	1903	942	1153	1955[12]
Cardiff Railway	5	Kitson & Co.	3799	1898	1338	1338		Preserved at Didcot
	6		?		1339	1339	1934
Alexandra Docks	Trojan	Avonside	1386	1897	1340	—		Preserved at Didcot
	Alexandra		1387	1898	1341	—	1946
Taff Vale Railway	267	Hudswell Clarke	166	1876	1342	—	1926
	266	Hudswell Clarke	159	1876	1343	—	1925
West Cornwall Railway	Fox	Avonside	913	1872	1385	—		Sold 1912

Gallery

• 
  GWR 1338 preserved at Didcot
• 
  GWR 701 was scrapped but this is Andrew Barclay 1964/1929 posing as GWR 701
• 
  No. 1144 on the Gwili Railway at Bronwydd Arms, 27 June 1992.

See also

• Locomotives of the Great Western Railway