GWR class 1600
| GWR class 1600 | |
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 GWR 1621 in service at Stourbridge, December 1958
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| Numbering: | GWR 1600 - 1669 |
| Number: | 70 |
| Manufacturer: | Swindon Railway Works |
| Year of construction (s): | 1949 to 1955 |
| Retirement: | 1959 to 1965 |
| Axis formula : | 0-6-0PT |
| Gauge : | 1435 mm ( standard gauge ) |
| Length over buffers: | 9,210 mm |
| Height: | 3,500 mm |
| Service mass: | 42.3 t |
| Driving wheel diameter: | 1,257 mm |
| Number of cylinders: | 2 |
| Boiler overpressure: | 11.4 bar |
| Water supply: | 3,980 m³ |
The Class 1600 of the Great Western Railway is a pannier tank locomotive for light freight train service and the successor to the GWR class 2021 . The design of the locomotive came from the chief engineer of GWR William Dean , all 70 pieces were built by the Western Region of British Railways .
The service times for this class of locomotive were short - the locomotive No. 1659 had the shortest period of service from the year of manufacture 1955 to the scrapping in 1960. Only the No. 1638 has survived as a museum locomotive on the Kent and East Sussex Railway .
literature
- Brian Whitehurst: Great Western engines, names, numbers, types, classes: 1940 to preservation. Oxford Publishing Company, 1973, ISBN 0-902888-21-8 , pp. 18-19, 81, 101, 153 .
Web links
Commons : GWR 1600 Class - collection of images, videos and audio files
