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Numbers Carried
Company Number Date From
Great Western Railway 3775 on 01/07/1938

Locomotive Specifics
Designer C. Collett
Class 57xx
Company History GWR
Wheels 0-6-0PT
Builder Swindon Works
Order Number 306
To Service Fri 01/07/1938
Withdrawal Fri 31/12/1965
Service Life 27 yrs, 5 mths , 30 dys

Disposal
Scrapping During 04/1966 at Cashmore's (Newport)

Allocations
Code Subsequent Codes Name From Date
    (New) on 01/07/1938
WLN   Wellington on 15/06/1947 (Snapshot)
85A   Worcester m/e 31/01/1951
85A   Worcester 4w/e 28/02/1951
85B   Gloucester Horton Road 4w/e 25/03/1961
     Withdrawn on 31/12/1965

SLS Allocations*
Type Code Name From Date
ALLOC 85A Worcester m/e 31/01/1951
ALLOC 85B Gloucester Horton Road 4w/e 25/03/1961
WDN   7w/e 16/01/1966

* 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
02/04/1948 Barry Works On 2/4 the following were observed in the Erecting Shop:-Nos. 344, 3707/14/75, 5608/19/60, 6669, 6754 an 9789, while out-side were:-Nos. 414, 1993, 5630, 6680, 6700 an 8748. SLS/194805

Summary
Date Event Details Source See Also
01/07/1938 To Service To service as Great Western Railway Number 3775
Built at Swindon Works
   
15/06/1947 Allocation Allocation Snapshot - Wellington (WLN)    
31/01/1951 Allocation Reallocated to Worcester (85A)    
28/02/1951 Allocation Reallocated to Worcester (85A)    
25/03/1961 Allocation Reallocated to Gloucester Horton Road (85B)    
31/12/1965 Withdrawn Condemned as 3775    
04/1966 Scrapped Broken up by Cashmore's: Newport    

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