page_title: GWR 3200 Class
section_title: Operations
hierarchical_section_title: GWR 3200 Class / Operations
caption_attribution_description: English: 'Dukedog' 4-4-0 at Swindon, 1946Seen from the platform at Swindon Station, No. 3223 is just before it was renumbered 9023; it was built 2/39, incorporating the frames of 'Bulldog no. 3423 and replaced 'Duke' no. 3253. [This is one of my earliest photographs, using a primitive camera].
context_page_description: The Great Western Railway 3200 Class was a design of 4-4-0 steam locomotive for passenger train work. The nickname for this class, almost universally used at the time these engines were in service was Dukedog since the locomotives were composed of former Duke Class boilers on Bulldog Class frames. As such they were one of the last steam locomotive classes to retain outside frames.
context_section_description: Mainly allocated to the Cambrian main line, it remained one of the few classes of locomotive that British Rail inherited (others were the GWR 2251 Class and the LMS Ivatt Class 2 2-6-0), that was light enough to be permitted on the wooden Barmouth Bridge. As a result, they remained in regular use until the 1950s.
caption: Dukedog 4-4-0 at Swindon, 1946
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