GWR 1400 Class No. 1401

The Great Western Railways No. 1401 was a 0-4-2T 1400 class tank engine built by the Great Western Railway.
==History==
The Great Western Railways No. 1401 was built in August 1932 at Swindon as No. 4801. It was the second member of the 4800 class 0-4-2, which totalled 75 by 1936. In 1946, the locomotive along with the rest of its class were rebranded as the 1400 class, as the GWR converted twelve of its 2800 Class of consolidations to burn oil, reassigning the 4800 class to that series of experimental locomotives. 
In June 1952, it starred in the Ealing Studios comedy The Titfield Thunderbolt, occasionally swapping numberplates with sibling locomotive No. 1456, so more filming could be done quicker. A replica was also built for the crash sequence. 
After this, it carried on it’s existence as normal, before being broken up in November 1959. Stock footage of the engine in motion also appears in the 1966 Hammer horror film The Reptile.
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