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Numbers Carried
Company Number Date From
Great Western Railway 3851 on 18/06/1942

Locomotive Specifics
Designer G. Churchward
Class 28xx
Company History GWR
Wheels 2-8-0
Builder Swindon Works
Order Number 346
To Service Fri 18/06/1942
Withdrawal Fri 02/07/1965
Service Life 23 yrs , 14 dys

Disposal
Scrapping During 10/1965 at Cashmore's (Newport)

Allocations
Code Subsequent Codes Name From Date
    (New) on 18/06/1942
PDN   Old Oak Common on 15/06/1947 (Snapshot)
NEA   Neath (Court Sart) 4w/e 27/11/1948
LLY   Llanelli 4w/e 29/01/1949
81E   Didcot 7w/e 22/06/1964
81C   Southall 2w/e 10/01/1965
     Withdrawn on 02/07/1965

SLS Allocations*
Type Code Name From Date
ALLOC NEATH Neath (Court Sart) 4w/e 27/11/1948
ALLOC LLY Llanelli 4w/e 29/01/1949
ALLOC 81E Didcot 3w/e 29/06/1964
ALLOC 81C Southall 5w/e 04/01/1965
WDN   on 02/07/1965
WDN   4w/e 11/07/1965

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

Mentions ...
Report Date Title Report Source
30/06/1949 Swindon Works (entering Works) New Work June: Nos. 7021 Haverfordwest Castle LDR (7/6), 7022 Hereford Castle CDF (14/6), 7023 Penrice Castle CDF (23/6), *7024 Powis Castle (30/6); *1500 (22/6), 41501 (1/7). *Not allocated. Nos. 7021-24 are painted dark green and lined, while Nos. 1500/1 are unlined black. No. 1500 has so far been tried on a variety of jobs, and it is possible that they all may go to Cardiff Docks. Locomotives entering Works during June included: Nos. 1001/29, 1335/63, 1458, 2216, 2534/72, 2823/81/82/84/92, 2945, 3031/34, 3161/67, 3649, 3851, 4016/37/40/83/84, 4259, 4381, 4504/13/93, 4651, 4807/54/56 (for reconversion to coal-burning), 4961, 5008/28/52/53/82, 5151, 5303/32/61, 5510/57/58, 5760/80/92, 5800, 5910/35/40/66, 6007/20, 6105/08, 6314/35/44/70/79, 6409, 6739, 6814/21/26/63/70, 6904/20/68, 7016, 7239, 7700/10/24/28/35, 7803, 7900, 8762/98 and E1066. Condemned: 53, 1731, 2651/55, 3364, 9072. No. 7900 came in for rebalancing, while No. E1066 had a hot box. No. 2848 has been reconverted to coal-burning. No. 6000 was ex Works on 17/6 painted in the new blue and lined, with crest on the tender, while No. 6011 has also appeared in the same livery, but, as yet, has no crest on the tender. Nos. 4052/58 are ex Works painted green and lined, while further locomotives painted black and fully lined include Nos. 1017/29, 6931/43 an 6936 (with the crest on the tender). Stock Shed: Nos. 4914, 5919, 6997-99 and 7902-04 have now been taken out of store and put into traffic, Nos. 4914, 6997/99 and 7902 have gone to BRD, No. 6998 to CDF and Nos. 7903/04 to PDN. SLS/194908

Summary
Date Event Details Source See Also
18/06/1942 To Service To service as Great Western Railway Number 3851
Built at Swindon Works
   
15/06/1947 Allocation Allocation Snapshot - Old Oak Common (PDN)    
27/11/1948 Allocation Reallocated to Neath (Court Sart) (NEA )    
29/01/1949 Allocation Reallocated to Llanelli (LLY)    
22/06/1964 Allocation Reallocated to Didcot (81E)    
10/01/1965 Allocation Reallocated to Southall (81C)    
02/07/1965 Withdrawn Condemned as 3851    
10/1965 Scrapped Broken up by Cashmore's: Newport    

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