page_title: GWR 1000 Class
section_title: Operation
hierarchical_section_title: GWR 1000 Class / Operation
caption_attribution_description: GWR 1000&#160;; GWR 1000s of British Railways
context_page_description: The Great Western Railway 1000 Class or County Class was a class of 4-6-0 steam locomotive. Thirty examples were built between 1945 and 1947, but all were withdrawn and scrapped in the early 1960s. No examples were preserved but a replica locomotive is under construction.
context_section_description: The Counties had a mixed reception: some traditionalists regarded them as ‘non-standard, expensive and unnecessary,’ others considered them a successful, free steaming design, well suited to express or freight work and a fitting finale to GW two-cylinder 4-6-0 development. According to O.S. Nock ‘their best and really brilliant work was done north of Wolverhampton where they ran very heavy trains with conspicuous success.’
caption: 1019 County of Merioneth at Bristol Temple Meads, 1960
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