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Numbers Carried
Company Number Date From
Great Western Railway 3518 m/e 08/1885

Locomotive Specifics
Designer W. Dean
Class Stella
Company History GWR
Rebuild History
ClassFrom
3201 SG 2-4-0T08/1885
3201 (2-4-0)11/1894
Wheels 2-4-0
Builder Swindon Works
Order Number 64
Works Number 1023
Fittings (as built)
Condenser Fitted
Boiler Diagram S2 (Round top firebox)
Train Brakes Vacuum
To Service During 08/1885
Withdrawal During 09/1932
Service Life 47 yrs , 1 mth

Disposal

Allocations
Code Subsequent Codes Name From Date
    (New) m/e 08/1885
     Withdrawn m/e 09/1932

Modifications
Date Modified Modification
12/1902 Diagram S4 boiler fitted (Round top firebox)
05/1907 Diagram B2 boiler fitted (Belpaire firebox)
12/1917 Superheated boiler fitted
12/1917 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
08/1885 To Service To service as Great Western Railway Number 3518
Built at Swindon Works, Works Number 1023
   
12/1902 Modification Diagram S4 boiler fitted    
05/1907 Modification Diagram B2 boiler fitted    
12/1917 Modification Diagram B4 boiler fitted    
12/1917 Modification Modification: Superheated boiler fitted    
09/1932 Withdrawn Condemned as 3518    

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