# Great Western Railway absorbed locomotives

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## The grouping

Under the terms of the Railways Act 1921, the Great Western Railway (GWR) amalgamated with six companies – the "constituent companies" - and absorbed a large number of others – the "subsidiary companies". All of the constituent companies and ten of the subsidiary companies owned locomotives, ranging from the Taff Vale Railway which had 275 locomotives (one of which was not taken into GWR stock), to the Cleobury Mortimer and Ditton Priors Light Railway and the Gwendraeth Valleys Railway, with just two each. The constituent companies were amalgamated on 1 January 1922, some of the subsidiary companies being absorbed on the same date, the rest following at intervals until July 1923. Two more undertakings, not mentioned in the Act, which were responsible for shunting at Swansea Docks, sold their locomotives to the GWR soon afterwards.
| Company | Status | Date | Locomotives |
| Alexandra (Newport and South Wales) Docks and Railway | Constituent | 1 January 1922 | 39 |
| Barry Railway | Constituent | 1 January 1922 | 148 |
| Cambrian Railways | Constituent | 1 January 1922 | 99 |
| Cardiff Railway | Constituent | 1 January 1922 | 36 |
| Rhymney Railway | Constituent | 1 January 1922 | 123 |
| Taff Vale Railway | Constituent | 1 January 1922 | 274 |
| Brecon and Merthyr Tydfil Junction Railway | Subsidiary | 1 July 1922 | 47 |
| Burry Port and Gwendraeth Valley Railway | Subsidiary | 1 July 1922 | 15 |
| Cleobury Mortimer and Ditton Priors Light Railway | Subsidiary | 1 January 1922 | 2 |
| Gwendraeth Valleys Railway | Subsidiary | 1 January 1923 | 2 |
| Llanelly and Mynydd Mawr Railway | Subsidiary | 1 January 1923 | 8 |
| Midland and South Western Junction Railway | Subsidiary | 1 July 1923 | 29 |
| Neath and Brecon Railway | Subsidiary | 1 July 1922 | 15 |
| Port Talbot Railway and Docks Company | Subsidiary | 1 January 1922 | 22 |
| Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway | Subsidiary | 1 January 1922 | 37 |
| South Wales Mineral Railway | Subsidiary | 1 January 1923 | 5 |
| Powlesland and Mason | | 1 January 1924 | 9 |
| Swansea Harbour Trust | | 1 July 1923 | 14 |

## Alexandra (Newport and South Wales) Docks and Railway

Thirty-nine locomotives acquired by the GWR on 1 January 1922.
| Type | Quantity | Nos. | Builder | Year | GWR Nos. | Notes |
| 0-4-0ST | 1 | Trojan | Avonside Engine Company | 1897 | 1340 | Acquired 1903 |
| 0-4-0ST | 1 | Alexandra | Avonside Engine Company | 1898 | 1341 | Acquired 1903 |
| 0-4-2T | 1 | 14 | GWR Wolverhampton | 1877 | 1426 | GWR 517 Class |
| 0-6-0ST | 5 | 1 to 5 | Robert Stephenson & Company | 1898–1900 | 674–678 | |

## Brecon and Merthyr Tydfil Junction Railway

Forty-seven locomotives were acquired by the GWR on 1 July 1922
Brecon and Merthyr Tydfil Junction Railway locomotives inherited by the GWR :
| Type | Quantity | Nos. | Builder | Year | GWR Nos. | Notes |
| 0-6-0ST | 2 | 17–18 | Sharp, Stewart & Co. | 1881 | 2190–1 | |
| 0-6-0ST | 12 | 1–8, 13–16 | Robert Stephenson & Co.John Fowler & Co. | 1884–86 | 2177–88 | |
| 2-4-0T | 5 | 9–12, 25 | Robert Stephenson & Co. | 1888–89, 1898 | 1402/12/52/8/60 | |
| 0-6-2ST | 4 | 19, 20/3/6 | Vulcan Foundry | 1894, 1905 | 1674/7/92, 1833 | |
| 0-6-0ST | 5 | 22, 24, 27–29 | Kitson & CoNasmyth, Wilson & Co. | 1896, 1900 | 2169–73 | |
| 0-6-0ST | 3 | 32–34 | Swindon Works | 1886–87 | 1685/93/4 | Ex-GWR 1661 Class, acquired 1906–07 |
| 0-6-2T | 8 | 36–43 | Robert Stephenson & Co. | 1909–10, 1914 | 11, 21, 332, 504, 698, 888, 1084, 1113 | |
| 4-4-2T | 1 | 44 | Beyer Peacock & Co | 1879 | 1391 | Ex-LSWR 46 class, acquired 1914 |
| 0-6-2T | 6 | 45–50 | Robert Stephenson & Co. | 1915, 1921 | 1372–5, 1668/70 | |
| 0-6-0T | 1 | 35 | Kerr, Stuart & Co. | 1917 | 2161 | Ex-Railway Operating Division, acquired 1920 |

## Burry Port and Gwendraeth Valley Railway

Fifteen locomotives were acquired by the GWR on 1 July 1922
Burry Port and Gwendraeth Valley Railway locomotives inherited by the GWR :
| Type | Quantity | Nos. | Builder | Year | GWR Nos. |
| 0-6-0ST | 2 | 1, 3 | Chapman and Furneaux | 1900–01 | 2192–3 |
| 0-6-0ST | 4 | 4–7 | Avonside Engine Company | 1903–07 | 2194–6, 2176 |
| 0-6-0T | 9 | 8–12, 2, 15, 13, 14 | Hudswell Clarke | 1909–19 | 2197, 2163, 2198, 2164/5/2/8/6/7 |
No. 2164 was withdrawn in 1929, and no. 2163 in 1944; the remaining thirteen were passed on to British Railways, being withdrawn between 1951 and 1959.

## Cambrian Railways

Ninety-nine locomotives were acquired by the GWR on 1 January 1922, including five narrow gauge: three on the Vale of Rheidol Railway, and two on the Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway:
| Number | Name | Builder | Wheel arr. | Year built | Notes |
| 1 | Edward VII | Davies & Metcalfe | 2-6-2T | 1902 | Re-numbered 1212 in 1922. Overhauled by the GWR in 1925 and gained traditional Swindon fittings. Saw very little use following the arrival of the 3 new locomotives. In 1932 1212 moved to Swindon works The official withdrawal date is given as 9 March 1935. It was scrapped shortly afterwards. |
| 2 | Prince of Wales | Davies & Metcalfe | 2-6-2T | 1902 | Renumbered 1213 in 1922. Sent to Swindon works in 1924 and scrapped. The number was immediately re-used for the new locomotive 1213 (now No 9) as part of the pretence of a heavy overhaul of the original locomotive. |
| 3 | Rheidol | Bagnall | 2-4-0T | 1896 | Renumbered 1198 by the GWR in 1923 but withdrawn and scrapped the following year, having never carried its GWR number. |
| Type | Quantity | Nos. | Builder | Year | GWR Nos. | Notes |
| 0-6-0T | 2 | WLLR 1 The Earl and 2 Countess | Beyer, Peacock & Company | | 822 and 823 | |

## Cleobury Mortimer and Ditton Priors Light Railway

Two locomotives were acquired by the GWR on 1 January 1922
| Type | Quantity | Nos. | Builder | Year | GWR Nos. | Notes |
| 0-6-0ST | 2 | Cleobury and Burwarton | Manning Wardle | 1908 | 28 and 29 | Both rebuilt as 0-6-0PT |

## Gwendraeth Valleys Railway

Two 0-6-0ST locomotives were acquired by the GWR on 1 January 1923. One was given the GWR number 26, but the second (Margret) was sold in 1923 without being allocated a GWR number.

## Llanelly and Mynydd Mawr Railway

Eight locomotives acquired by the GWR on 1 January 1923
* 312 Andrew Barclay 0-6-0T, George Waddell
* 339 Hudswell Clarke 0-6-0T, Tarndune
* 803 Hudswell Clarke 0-6-0T, Ravelston
* 937 Hudswell Clarke 0-6-0T, Merkland
* 359 Hudswell Clarke 0-6-0ST, Hilda
* 704 Manning Wardle 0-6-0T, Victory
* 944 Avonside Engine Company 0-6-0T, Great Mountain
* 969 Fox, Walker and Company 0-6-0ST, Seymour Clarke

## Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway

Thirty-seven locomotives acquired by the GWR on 1 January 1922
* 164 - 179, 181 Kitson 0-6-2T
* 180, 182 Robert Stephenson & Company 0-6-2T ex Port Talbot Railway
* 728, 1167, 1652, 1660 ex-GWR 1076 Class 0-6-0ST
* 789, 801, 802, 805, 806 Beyer, Peacock & Company 0-6-0T
* 1307, 1309, 1310 Kitson 2-4-2T
* 1710, 1756 ex-GWR 1701 Class 0-6-0ST
* 1825, 1834 ex-GWR 1813 Class 0-6-0ST
* 2756 ex-GWR 2721 Class 0-6-0ST

## South Wales Mineral Railway

Five locomotives acquired by the GWR on 1 January 1923
* 817 - 818 ex-South Devon Railway Buffalo class 0-6-0ST
* 1546, 1806, 1811 ex-GWR 645 Class 0-6-0ST

## Taff Vale Railway

275 locomotives were acquired by the GWR on 1 January 1922
Taff Vale Railway locomotives inherited by the GWR :
| Class | Wheels | Introduced | Final TVR nos. | Quantity | First GWR nos. | To BR | Extinct | Notes |
| A | 0-6-2T | 1914 | 3, 7, 10–12, 20, 42/5, 52, 75, 80, 90/1, 120/2–5/7–130/2–6/8–140/4/9, 154/6–160/2/4/5, 400–416 | 58 | 335/7, 343–9, 351/2/6/7, 360–2/4–8, 370–391/3/4/7–9, 401–4/6/8, 438–441 | 58 | 1957 | GWR nos. 401 up allotted 303–9, 312/6, 322 in 1946, renumbered 1947–50 |
| C | 4-4-2T | 1888 | 170–5 | 6 | 1301–6 | — | 1927 | |
| D | 0-6-0ST | 1865 | 250, 270 | 2 | 797/8 | — | 1926 | |
| E | 0-6-0ST | 1873 | 264–5 | 2 | 795/6 | — | 1927 | |
| H | 0-6-0T | 1884 | 141–3 | 3 | 792–4 | 3 | 1953 | Renumbered 193–5 during 1948/49 |
| I | 4-4-0T | 1884 | 285–7 | 3 | 999, 1133, 1184 | — | 1925 | |
| K & L | 0-6-0 | 1874 | 210/7/9, 220, 235/6/9, 242/5, 252/3/9, 261, 281/3/4/8, 297/8, 301/2/4, 313–6, 320/2/5/7/8, 335–7/9, 340, 354/6–360 | 42 | 912–933/5/6/8/9, 941–4/6/8, 968–970/4/8, 984, 1000–2 | — | 1930 | 43 withdrawn 1907–20 |
| M & M1 | 0-6-2T | 1885 | 4, 5, 14–16, 22/4, 50/1/3/4, 71/4, 86–89, 145–8, 150–3, 163/6–9, 176–181, 344/9, 362/4/5 | 41 | 442–5, 462/6, 478, 481–4/7–493, 503/5–8, 511/3/5/6, 520, 552, 560/7, 573/7–580/2–6 | — | 1934 | |
| N | 0-6-2T | 1891 | 106/7, 182–9 | 10 | 485/6, 494–6, 498–502 | — | 1934 | |
| O | 0-6-2T | 1894 | 21/5/6, 33/4, 190 | 6 | 446–8, 452/3, 581 | — | 1930 | |
| O1 | 0-6-2T | 1894 | 27–29, 37, 41, 60–65, 70/3/8 | 14 | 449–451/4/5, 471–7/9, 480 | — | 1931 | |
| O2 | 0-6-2T | 1899 | 31/2, 44, 66, 81–5 | 9 | 412/3/5/9, 421/3–6 | — | 1928 | |
| O3 | 0-6-2T | 1902 | 18/9, 47, 55/7, 92/3/6, 103, 117, 126, 131/7, 155, 161 | 15 | 410/1/6–8, 427–35/7 | 2 | 1948 | Nos. 410/1 to BR |
| O4 | 0-6-2T | 1907 | 1, 2, 6, 8, 9, 13/7, 35/6/8/9, 43/6/8/9, 56/8/9, 67–9, 94/5/7/8, 101/2/4/5/8–116/8/9, 121 | 41 | 236, 278–302, 310/1/3–5/7–321/4, 333, 409, 414, 420 | 41 | 1955 | Nos. 300 up allotted 200–211, 215–220 in 1946; except for 301/2, 314 these were renumbered in 1946–50. |
| S & T | 0-4-0ST | 1876 | 266/7 | 2 | 1342/3 | — | 1926 | |
| U & U1 | 0-6-2T | 1895 | 23, 30, 40, 72/6/7/9, 191–198 | 15 | 587–593/5–600/2/3 | — | 1931 | |
| V | 0-6-0ST | 1899 | 99, 100, 275, 280, 290/1 | 6 | 786–791 | — | 1930 | |