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Numbers Carried
Company Number Date From
Great Western Railway 5759 m/e 05/1929

Locomotive Specifics
Designer C. Collett
Class 57xx
Company History GWR
Wheels 0-6-0PT
Builder Swindon Works
Order Number 258
To Service During 05/1929
Withdrawal Fri 23/09/1960
Service Life 31 yrs, 4 mths , 24 dys

Disposal
Scrapping During 01/1961 at Cashmore's (Newport)

Allocations
Code Subsequent Codes Name From Date
    (New) m/e 05/1929
LDR   Landore on 15/06/1947 (Snapshot)
86G   Pontypool Road 4w/e 21/04/1956
86H   Aberbeeg 4w/e 30/11/1957
86G   Pontypool Road 4w/e 22/03/1958
     Withdrawn on 23/09/1960

SLS Allocations*
Type Code Name From Date
ALLOC 86G Pontypool Road 4w/e 21/04/1956
ALLOC 86H Aberbeeg 4w/e 30/11/1957
ALLOC 86G Pontypool Road 4w/e 22/03/1958
WDN   m/e 30/09/1960

* 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

Summary
Date Event Details Source See Also
05/1929 To Service To service as Great Western Railway Number 5759
Built at Swindon Works
   
15/06/1947 Allocation Allocation Snapshot - Landore (LDR)    
21/04/1956 Allocation Reallocated to Pontypool Road (86G)    
30/11/1957 Allocation Reallocated to Aberbeeg (86H)    
22/03/1958 Allocation Reallocated to Pontypool Road (86G)    
23/09/1960 Withdrawn Condemned as 5759    
01/1961 Scrapped Broken up by Cashmore's: Newport    

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