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Numbers Carried
Company Number Date From
Great Western Railway 3022   05/1891

Names Carried
Date From Name
05/1891 ROUGEMONT
1898 BESSEMER

Locomotive Specifics
Designer W. Dean
Class 3021
Company History GWR
Rebuild History
ClassFrom
302105/1891
3021 (2-2-2)07/1892
Achilles (4-2-2)07/1894
Wheels 2-2-2
Builder Swindon Works
Order Number 86
Works Number 1262
To Service During 05/1891
Withdrawal During 02/1909
Service Life 17 yrs, 9 mths , 1 dy

Disposal

Allocations
Code Subsequent Codes Name From Date
    (New) m/e 05/1891
     Withdrawn m/e 02/1909
WEY   Weymouth Radipole (GWR) m/e 30/06/1948
WOS   Worcester 4w/e 08/10/1949

SLS Allocations*
Type Code Name From Date
ALLOC WEY Weymouth Radipole (GWR) m/e 30/06/1948
ALLOC WOS Worcester 4w/e 08/10/1949
ALLOC 85B Gloucester Horton Road 4w/e 21/02/1953
ALLOC 82B St Philips Marsh 4w/e 21/04/1956
WDN   m/e 30/06/1956

* Stephenson Locomotive Society data - raw and not yet cross-referenced

Mentions ...
Report Date Title Report Source
30/09/1947 Swindon Works Locos. entering Works during September included: Nos. 1005, 1925, 1935, 2112, 2148, 2195, 2444, 2551, 2612, 3005, 3017, 3022, 3023, 5318, 5319, 5335, 5398, W.D. 77368, 78543 an 79274. Works' pilots recently have been: Nos. 200, 2723, 2731, 2733 an 2768. No. 5049 CDF (ex Works 23/9) has been fitted with an experimental Swindon design mechanical lubricator (similar to that fitted to No. 4905) and also a 4-row superheater. The present batch of new 'Hall' Class locos. which are of the modified or '6959' Class are being fitted with straight sided tenders; No. 6974 and onwards are being lined out. SLS/194711
21/10/1948 Swindon Stock Shed (Newburn Wagon Repair) On 21/10 the Stock Shed contained the following:-Nos. 5, 3012/14/15/17/18/23/41, 3900/54/55, 4081, 4502, 4914, 4801/06/08/10/51/55/57, 6320 while those observed at the Newburn Wagon Repair Shed were Nos. 3022/24/36, 3377/83/93, 3406/07/44/47/49, 3450/51/54, 3901/03/52, 4803/05/07/09/11/53/54/56, 9024/83/84/89. Nos. 3904/50 an 4804 have been re-converted to coal-burning and re-numbered *4972, 5955 and 2839 respectively. *Still retains electric lighting equipment. SLS/194812

Summary
Date Event Details Source See Also
05/1891 To Service To service as Great Western Railway Number 3022, name: ROUGEMONT
Built at Swindon Works, Works Number 1262
   
1898 Naming Renamed 'BESSEMER'    
02/1909 Withdrawn Condemned as 3022    
30/06/1948 Allocation Reallocated to Weymouth Radipole (GWR) (WEY)    
08/10/1949 Allocation Reallocated to Worcester (WOS)    

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