GWR No. 1490

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GWR No. 1490 was an Experimental Pannier Tank Engine designed by William Dean and it was built by the GWR's Swindon Works for the Great Western Railway.
== History ==
In 1898, after Churchward had become Dean's assistant, a solitary 4-4-0PT was built at Swindon (Lot no. 114, works no. 1702), and was the first GWR locomotive with pannier tanks. It had 4 ft 7+1⁄2 in (1,410 mm) driving wheels, and was intended as the prototype of a new class for working over the Metropolitan Railway, but was both unstable and too heavy. After a few years spent shunting, it was sold in 1907 by the GWR to the Ebbw Vale Steel, Iron & Coal Co. In 1908 it came into the possession of the Brecon and Merthyr Tydfil Junction Railway, which numbered it 35, but sold it again in 1916 to the Cramlington Colliery Co. It was eventually scrapped in 1929.
Category:Experimental locomotives
Category:Scrapped locomotives
Category:4-4-0PT locomotives
Category:Tank locomotives
Category:Scrapped steam locomotives
Category:Pannier tank locomotives
Category:Built in 1898
Category:4-4-0PT steam locomotives
Category:Steam locomotives
Category:Great Western Railway locomotives
Category:Dean locomotives
Category:Swindon Works locomotives
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