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Numbers Carried
Company Number Date From
Great Western Railway 3508 m/e 04/1885

Locomotive Specifics
Designer W. Dean
Class Stella
Company History GWR
Rebuild History
ClassFrom
3201 BG 2-4-0T04/1885
3201 BG Tender (2-4-0)05/1890
3201 (2-4-0)08/1892
Wheels 2-4-0
Builder Swindon Works
Order Number 64
Works Number 1013
Fittings (as built)
Boiler Diagram S2 (Round top firebox)
Train Brakes Vacuum
To Service During 04/1885
Withdrawal During 09/1929
Service Life 44 yrs , 5 mths

Disposal

Allocations
Code Subsequent Codes Name From Date
    (New) m/e 04/1885
     Withdrawn m/e 09/1929

Modifications
Date Modified Modification
10/1902 Diagram S4 boiler fitted (Round top firebox)
09/1908 Diagram B2 boiler fitted (Belpaire firebox)
06/1911 Diagram S4 boiler fitted (Round top firebox)
05/1913 Diagram B4 boiler fitted (Belpaire firebox)


Mentions ...
Report Date Title Report Source
31/08/1921 Chester G.W.R. sheds in 1921 The recent demise of Chester (West) shed as a loco. depot adds a touch of nostalgic interest to an August, 1921, allocation list of the depot in its Great Western heyday. This list was carefully compiled for two interested schoolboy visitors, by one of the clerks, with the help of the fitter's labourer who had been furnished as the boys' guide. It was probably quite reasonably accurate at its date. Supplementary notes added at the time were : 4309 was the 'pick' of the passenger engines, 3510 a poor steamer so restricted to station pilot duty (Chester General), 2883 just received from the Factory-we were shown the uncompleted receipt for it; no.1 had also just been through the Factory, and was 'all green', with blacked-over chimney-cap. Engines at Chester : (Passenger and Mixed Traffic) 4-4-0 'City': 3709 Quebec, 3711 City of Birmingham, 3719 City of Exeter; 'Flower': 4146 Sydney; 2-6-0 43xx : 4309, 4337, 4341, 4365, 4374, 4381, 4395, 4398, 5315, 5318, 5322, 5336, 5368, 5369, 5370, 5371, 5385, 5386; 2-4-0 'Stella': 3202; ditto (r/b. from 2-4-0T): 3507, 3508, 3510, 3511, 3518, 3519; 0-6-0 'Dean goods': 2419, 2423, 2431, 2438, 2452, 2477; 2-4-2T: 3609; 2-6-2T: 4517, 4528; 2-4-0T: 1; 0-6-0T '2721 class': 2733(s/t), 2778(p/t); 0-4-2T '517' : 1475. (Freight): 2-8-0: 2810, 2818, 2842, 2862, 2864, 2867, 2883; 2-6-0 'Aberdare': 2628, 2653, 2654, 2678; 0-6-0 D/F. 'Beyer': 357; 'Standard Goods': 512, 601, 701. 4' 7½' 'Coal' : 934, 942; 0-6-0T '655 class': 655, 1741, 1745; '850 Class': 857, 987(s/t); '1501 class': 654, 1501(s/t), 1548(s/t). '1854 class': 1863. Total engines: 68 (16 tank.) Two additional engines were also noted during the visit both bearing CHR shed mark : 2-4-0 3505 and 0-6-0 D/F. 'Standard Goods' 403. At that time, 'Dean Goods' 2452 was a war veteran; in the 1939 war Nos. 2419/23/38/77 were requisitioned; the first three were lost, and 2477 was one of the engines sent to China as an U.N.R.R.A. contribution, after return from war service. F.H. SLS/196009

Summary
Date Event Details Source See Also
04/1885 To Service To service as Great Western Railway Number 3508
Built at Swindon Works, Works Number 1013
   
10/1902 Modification Diagram S4 boiler fitted    
09/1908 Modification Diagram B2 boiler fitted    
06/1911 Modification Diagram S4 boiler fitted    
05/1913 Modification Diagram B4 boiler fitted    
09/1929 Withdrawn Condemned as 3508    

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