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Numbers Carried
Company Number Date From
Great Western Railway 5910 m/e 06/1931

Names Carried
Date From Name
06/1931 PARK HALL

Locomotive Specifics
Designer C. Collett
Class Hall
Company History GWR
Wheels 4-6-0
Builder Swindon Works
Order Number 275
To Service During 06/1931
Withdrawal Fri 21/09/1962
Service Life 31 yrs, 3 mths , 21 dys

Disposal
Scrapping During 12/1963 at Cashmore's (Great Bridge)

Allocations
Code Subsequent Codes Name From Date
    (New) m/e 06/1931
CDF   Cardiff Canton on 15/06/1947 (Snapshot)
82D   Westbury 4w/e 21/05/1955
82A   Bristol Bath Road 4w/e 08/10/1955
86C   Cardiff Canton 4w/e 21/02/1959
84B   Oxley 4w/e 03/12/1960
     Withdrawn on 21/09/1962

SLS Allocations*
Type Code Name From Date
ALLOC 82D Westbury 4w/e 21/05/1955
ALLOC 82A Bristol Bath Road 4w/e 08/10/1955
ALLOC 86C Cardiff Canton 4w/e 21/02/1959
ALLOC 84B Oxley 4w/e 03/12/1960
WDN   m/e 30/09/1962

* 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
31/07/1962 Withdrawn GWR engines It is understood that the following have been withdrawn and are lying at their home sheds mainly: 1004/26, 1462, 2200/29/56/71/94, 3211, 3623/30/88/94, 3741/50/83, 4037/99, 4102/6/16/8/29/52, 4236/91, 4557/67, 4906/9/13/7/21/34/7/41/4/7/8/52/60/7/9/84/99, 5007/8/11/6/7/9/21/30/2/3/4/6/45/6/7/52/61/4/6/8/75/88/94, 5190, 5357/99, 5520/5/44/50/4/62, 5617/31/46/98, 5746, 5910/1/7/8/26/30/1/40/59/64/6/73/80/1/2/99, 6001/2/7/9/12/4/5/6/9/21/2/6/7, 6146, 6330/42/62/6/88/91, 6617/30/40/1/7, 7300/1/5/11/6/21/31/6/41, 8449, 9785, 42385, 90355/6/565/693. LTE has 7749 on loan pending permanent transfer. SLS/196210

Summary
Date Event Details Source See Also
06/1931 To Service To service as Great Western Railway Number 5910, name: PARK HALL
Built at Swindon Works
   
15/06/1947 Allocation Allocation Snapshot - Cardiff Canton (CDF)    
21/05/1955 Allocation Reallocated to Westbury (82D)    
08/10/1955 Allocation Reallocated to Bristol Bath Road (82A)    
21/02/1959 Allocation Reallocated to Cardiff Canton (86C)    
03/12/1960 Allocation Reallocated to Oxley (84B)    
21/09/1962 Withdrawn Condemned as 5910    
12/1963 Scrapped Broken up by Cashmore's: Great Bridge    

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