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Numbers Carried
Company Number Date From
Great Western Railway 5735 m/e 03/1929

Locomotive Specifics
Designer C. Collett
Class 57xx
Company History GWR
Wheels 0-6-0PT
Builder North British Locomotive Company, Glasgow
Order Number L853
Works Number 23853
To Service During 03/1929
Withdrawal Fri 01/11/1957
Service Life 28 yrs, 8 mths , 4 dys
Total Mileage 641,805

Disposal
Scrapping 4w/e Sat 25/01/1958 at Locomotive Works (Swindon)

Allocations
Code Subsequent Codes Name From Date
    (New) m/e 03/1929
DID   Didcot on 15/06/1947 (Snapshot)
     Withdrawn on 01/11/1957

SLS Allocations*
Type Code Name From Date
WDN   m/e 30/11/1957

* 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
03/1929 To Service To service as Great Western Railway Number 5735
Built at North British Locomotive Company, Glasgow, Works Number 23853
   
15/06/1947 Allocation Allocation Snapshot - Didcot (DID)    
01/11/1957 Withdrawn Condemned as 5735    
25/01/1958 Scrapped Broken up by Locomotive Works: Swindon    

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