page_title: GWR 517 Class
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: GWR 517 Class / History
caption_attribution_description: English: GWR 517 class 1473 Fair Rosamund
context_page_description: The 517 Class were small 0-4-2T tank engines designed by George Armstrong for local passenger work on the Great Western Railway. They were built at Wolverhampton Works and were outshopped between 1868 and 1885. They were built in thirteen lots commencing with 517–528 and ending with 1477–1488 in 1884–1885.
context_section_description: The earlier ones were rebuilt from saddle tanks while the later ones were built as side tanks from the beginning.  The 3571 Class were very closely related, its prototype being a minor rebuild of 517 class No. 1477 in 1895.  Then ten new locos followed in the next two years. Returning to the 517 class, various bunker and cab combinations also evolved, and after their last rebuilding, the locos with enclosed cabs and large bunkers were effectively the progenitors of Collett's 4800 class. In 1898 No. 1473 was named Fair Rosamund, to work a royal train on the Oxford-Woodstock branch. The engine was the usual one for the Woodstock branch in subsequent years.
caption: 1473 Fair Rosamund
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