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Numbers Carried
Company Number Date From
Great Western Railway 6008 m/e 03/1928

Names Carried
Date From Name
03/1928 KING JAMES II

Locomotive Specifics
Designer C. Collett
Class King
Company History GWR
Wheels 4-6-0
Builder Swindon Works
Order Number 243
To Service During 03/1928
Building Cost £6,383.00 (including £1,699 for the boiler but excluding a further £1,036 for the tender)
Withdrawal Tue 19/06/1962
Service Life 34 yrs, 3 mths , 21 dys
Total Mileage 1,695,925

Disposal
Scrapping Sat 26/01/1963 at Locomotive Works (Swindon)

Allocations
Code Subsequent Codes Name From Date
    (New) m/e 03/1928
SRD   Stafford Road on 15/06/1947 (Snapshot)
83D   Laira 2w/e 12/07/1952
84A   Stafford Road 4w/e 24/01/1959
     Withdrawn on 19/06/1962

SLS Allocations*
Type Code Name From Date
ALLOC 83D Laira 4w/e 12/07/1952
ALLOC 84A Stafford Road m/e 28/02/1959
WDN   m/e 30/06/1962

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

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
31/08/1948 Swindon Works New work August: No. 7016 CDF, 7017 G. J. Churchward PDN; 7430/32 STB, 7431/33 CNYD, 7434. No. 4160 is nearing completion (26/8). Locomotives entering Works during August included: Nos. *100A1, 1018, 1461, 1934/57, 2144, 2340, 2746/64, 2882, 2938/39, 3613/76, 3823/25/57, *3902, *3953, 4045/85, 4119, 4269, 4552, 4671, *4802, *4850, *4852, 4902/14/20/25/28/69/76, 5006/39/63/64/84, 5107/83, 5261, 5325, 5416/20, 5540, 5756, 5932/71/80/93, 6000/08/10/22, 6311/33/85, 6433. 6746, 6849/79, 6945/60, 7206/30, 7726/82, 7800/15, 8104, **8393, 8709, 9301. *Oil-burning. **Converted to 53XX. Works' pilots of late have been: Nos. 212 (since sent for scrap, w/e 21/8), 906, 1713, 1900, 2751 SLS/194810

Summary
Date Event Details Source See Also
03/1928 To Service To service as Great Western Railway Number 6008, name: KING JAMES II
Built at Swindon Works
   
15/06/1947 Allocation Allocation Snapshot - Stafford Road (SRD)    
12/07/1952 Allocation Reallocated to Laira (83D)    
24/01/1959 Allocation Reallocated to Stafford Road (84A)    
19/06/1962 Withdrawn Condemned as 6008    
26/01/1963 Scrapped Broken up by Locomotive Works: Swindon    

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