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Numbers Carried
Company Number Date From
Taff Vale Railway 402 m/e 08/1920
Great Western Railway 388 y/e 1924

Locomotive Specifics
Designer J. Cameron
Class A
Company History TVR/GWR
Wheels 0-6-2T
Builder Hawthorn Leslie
To Service During 08/1920
Withdrawal Mon 01/10/1956
Total Mileage 782,915
Scrapping 4w/e Sat 20/04/1957 at Locomotive Works (Swindon)
Service Life 36 yrs, 2 mths , 0 dys

Allocations
Code Name From Date
  (New) m/e 08/1920
88A Cardiff Cathays m/e 16/06/1956
   Withdrawn on 01/10/1956

SLS Allocations*
Type Code Name From Date
ALLOC RHY Rhymney 4w/e 29/01/1949
ALLOC 88C Barry 4w/e 15/07/1950
ALLOC 88A Cardiff Cathays 4w/e 19/05/1956
WDN   m/e 31/10/1956

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

Summary
Date Event Details Source See Also
08/1920 To Service To service as Taff Vale Railway Number 402
Built at Hawthorn Leslie 		   
1924 Renumbered Renumbered to 388    
16/06/1956 Allocation Reallocated to Cardiff Cathays (88A)    
01/10/1956 Withdrawn Condemned as 388    

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