Museum residents

In the railway's museum, there are **a few locomotives** that can't be operated anymore due to condition or other reasons.

## GT3

### Purpose

Experimental

**GT3** is a British gas turbine prototype that is a part of the South Western Heritage Railway's museum collection.

### Bio

Gas Turbine 3 or GT3 had a troubled, short life working for British Railways from 1961 to 1962. In 1987, GT3 was saved from scrap to be a static display and tribute to experimental locomotives powered by gas turbines/"jet engines".

In 2005, Ginvera Davis had plans to restore him to operational condition for services along the SWHR but because of his unique construction, high costs and lack of BR Standard 5 4-6-0 parts, it was later cancelled.

### Real locomotive

The real GT3 was built by English Electric in 1961 as an experimental locomotive. This unique locomotive used a BR Standard 5 4-6-0 chassis but was withdrawn after a working life of one year, it was scrapped in 1967.

### Livery

GT3 is painted in his unique BR Maroon livery with Late Crests and the letters 'GT3' plated on the sides of his cab.

## Collett

### State

Static display

**Collett** is a large heavy goods locomotive that was built by the Great Western Railway. He is the only memberof his class to wear BR lined black.

### History

Collett was built by the GWR at Swindon Works in 1940, built to handle the heavy Welsh coal traffic. During this work until withdrawn by British Railways, he worked alongside classmates and older Churchward 2800 2-8-0s, the class the 2884 was based on. Collett was sent for scrap in 1962 and sent to Swindon for scrapping.

Collett was discovered in 1990 during a visit to Swindon by Mr Davis after his daughter drew a picture of a GWR 2884 with the number '2885' on the cab side number plates. Collett was purchased with a Collett 4,000 gallon, three axle tender. He was stored at Newsbourgh for five years. Restoration was started in 1991 and was complete by 2001, when Ginvera was in charge of the railway. Collett was painted in BR Lined Black with Early Crests, a livery his class never really wore in service days until his boiler ticket expired in 2011.Since then, Collett has been on static display in his unique livery. Plans by Ginvera Davis exist to return him to traffic in 2019 in BR Brunswick Green with Late Crests or GWR Edwardian Green.

### Real locomotive

The real locomotive Collett is based off was built on 30/10/1940 for the GWR at Swindon. It was withdrawn by BR on 30/10/1962 and scrapped a month later.

### Livery

In most appearances, Collett is still in scrapyard condition because of his restoration that took ten years to complete. After that, Collett is seen in British Railways Lined Black.

### Trivia

Collett is named after his designer, Charles Benjamin Collett.

The real No: 3827 never wore BR Lined Black during its career. It was only seen in unlined black during BR years.

Collett is the most travelled locomotive on the SWHR (1,000,000 miles in service years, 218,053 miles during his latest boiler ticket.

A preserved 2884 has worn a 4,000 gallon Collett tender, which that is No. 3802.

Collett has worked on the mainline before his only boiler ticket ran out.