GWR 322 Class (tank engine)
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The GWR 322 Class tank engines comprised six Great Western Railway outside-framed 0-6-0 steam locomotives, originally built by Beyer, Peacock, and Company as 322 class tender engines and subsequently rebuilt in 1878–85 as saddle tank locomotives by George Armstrong at Wolverhampton Works.
Numbering
[edit ]They were numbered in sequence as 322–327, with No. 323 having exchanged numbers with No. 359, No. 325 with No.337 and No. 327 with No. 366.
Rebuilding
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From 1918, all apart from No. 324 became pannier tanks when they were reboilered with Belpaire fireboxes. No. 322 was the only one ever to have a fully enclosed cab.
Use
[edit ]They were principally stationed in the Birmingham/Wolverhampton area and at Stourbridge, and including their previous existence as tender engines, all ran over a million miles up to their withdrawal between 1921 and 1932.[1]
References
[edit ]- ^ le Fleming 1958, pp. E32–E33.
- le Fleming, H. M. (April 1958). White, D. E. (ed.). The Locomotives of the Great Western Railway, part five: Six-coupled Tank Engines. RCTS. ISBN 0-901115-35-5. OCLC 500544510.