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Numbers Carried
Company Number Date From
Great Western Railway (Orig) 3729 m/e 09/1906
Great Western Railway (1912) 3439 m/e 12/1912

Names Carried
Date From Name
06/1913 Weston-super-Mare

Locomotive Specifics
Designer W. Dean
Class Bulldog
Company History GWR
Wheels 4-4-0
Builder Swindon Works
Order Number 163
Works Number 2197
To Service During 09/1906
Withdrawal During 07/1936
Service Life 29 yrs, 9 mths , 30 dys

Disposal

Allocations
Code Subsequent Codes Name From Date
    (New) m/e 09/1906
     Withdrawn m/e 07/1936

Modifications
Date Modified Modification
11/1911 Superheated boiler fitted
04/1919 Rebuilt with Piston Valves


Mentions ...
Report Date Title Report Source
30/11/1945 Swindon Works Locos entering works during November: 13, 28, 1003, 1785, 2189, 2202/39/91, 2669, 2741, 2854, 2921/34/81, 3004/44, 3183, 3366, 3435/43, 3638, 3775/98, 3802/4/13/4/7/38/57/65, 4000/16/53/74/82/95/8, 4272 4543, 4643/58, 4826, 4965/82; 5005/17/20/6, 5125/37, 5327/50/84, 5413, 5502/23, 5735/8/59/69, 5905/16/23/32/3/9/58/69, 6002/8, 6125/57, 6353/97; 6846, 6951/4, 7243, 7712/8/73/4/7/84, 8755, 9797. The advent of a K3 to Swindon works has been commented upon in the January Journal: it has a hole in its blast pipe, a bad regulator blow-through.and a hot box on one of the driving wheels. It may be recalled that B12/3 8539 was seen on the works turntable in 1944 when she was on loan to W.D. for working Ambulance Trains, but it is not known whether, on that occasion, she had entered the works or was merely using the turntable due to some defect of the one at the shed.
The scale of withdrawals has been so great that the concentration yard has been overwhelmed, and some of the locos are stored in a road adjacent to the main line-2381/5, 2406, 1161, 3439, 2732/59 being noted- there on 21/12. Both latter engines had been dead at the home sheds for some time before their withdrawal.
SLS/194602

Summary
Date Event Details Source See Also
09/1906 To Service To service as Great Western Railway Number 3729
Built at Swindon Works, Works Number 2197
Diagram D3 boiler fitted
   
11/1911 Modification Modification: Superheated boiler fitted    
12/1912 Renumbered Renumbered to 3439    
06/1913 Naming Named 'Weston-super-Mare'    
04/1919 Modification Modification: Rebuilt with Piston Valves    
07/1936 Withdrawn Condemned as 3439    

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