page_title: GWR 9400 Class
section_title: Operations
hierarchical_section_title: GWR 9400 Class / Operations
caption_attribution_description: English: Dunstall Park station, with Up goods including a dead engine. View NW, towards Shrewsbury etc.: ex-GWR Birmingham - Chester main line. Behind '9400' class 0-6-0T No. 8464 (built 10/50, withdrawn 12/63) is an '8750' 0-6-0PT without numberplates, probably going for scrap.
context_page_description: The Great Western Railway 9400 Class is a class of 0-6-0 pannier tank steam locomotive, used for shunting and banking duties.
  The first ten 9400s were the last steam engines built by the GWR. After nationalisation in 1948, another 200 were built by private contractors for British Railways. Most had very short working lives as the duties for which they were designed disappeared through changes in working practices or were taken over by diesel locomotives. Two locomotives survived into preservation, with the oldest of the class, 9400 as part of the National Collection.
context_section_description: The 9400 class were used on Paddington empty stock work right up to the end of steam on the Western Region of British Railways.  A familiar sight at the buffer stops at departure side in 1964–1965 was a filthy 9400 class locomotive devoid of number plates simmering at the head of a rake of British Railways Mark 1 coaches.
  Numbers 8400 to 8406 served as bank engines on the Lickey Incline after its transferral to the Western Region.
caption: 8464 with a freight train
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