The Great Western Railway (GWR) 4300 Class is a class of 2-6-0 (mogul) steam locomotives, designed by G.J. Churchward for mixed traffic duties. 342 were built from 1911–1932.

The Great Western Railway (GWR) 2600 or Aberdare class was a class of 2-6-0 steam locomotive built between 1900 and 1907. They were a freight and light mineral development of the 3300 Bulldog and 4100 Badminton classes, both 4-4-0 locomotives.

Robert Stephenson built 35 engines of this class for the Great Western in 1921, numbers 6370 - 99 and 7300 - 04. Eleven examples of the class were transported to France during World War I in the service of the Railway Operating Division of the British Army and these were 5319 - 5326 and 5328 - 5330. Modifications.

Churchward later returned and told Holcroft to design a 2-6-0 with 5ft 8in driving wheels and outside cylinders and a standard Swindon No 4 boiler plus as many other standard parts as possible. The result was the 4300 class.

7325 (originally numbered 9303) is a GWR Great Western Railway 4300 Class 2-6-0 (mogul) steam locomotive intended for mixed traffic duties including cross country passenger services, long goods, parcels and excursion trains.

Although many steam locomotives were designed for both passenger and freight traffic, few had the success of the Great Western’s ‘43XX’ class, a design that was to be the company’s maid of all work for more than half a century. EVAN GREEN-HUGHES explains all.

Nov 27, 2020 · Not a true GWR Mogul but a rebuild of GWR 2-6-2T 5193 with a newly-built tender. The main difference is that it has a No.2 boiler, smaller and lighter than the No.4 version fitted to genuine GWR Moguls. by Martin Tester. Created: Fri, …

The Great Western Railway (GWR) 2600 or Aberdare class was a class of 2-6-0 steam locomotive built between 1900 and 1907. They were a freight and light mineral development of the 3300 Bulldog and 4100 Badminton classes, both 4-4-0 locomotives.

For the coal traffic between Aberdare and Swindon, the GWR had 81 2-6-0 locomotives built from 1900 onwards, also called the “Aberdare class”. It was built under Dean and the first to be built, number 33, still had a conventional boiler with a Belpaire firebox , which the 4-4-0 express train locomotives of the Bulldog class also had.

May 28, 2007 · Based on F W Dean's 1899 4-6-0 goods locomotive described in Lcobase 21247, this nonet of Moguls differed primarily in replacing the leading bogie with a single leading truck axle. Wikipedia's author describes this Dean/Churchward prototype as …