3032 x 1977 px | 25,7 x 16,7 cm | 10,1 x 6,6 inches | 300dpi
Date de la prise de vue:
28 mars 2022
Lieu:
Swindon Works Wlitshire UK
Informations supplémentaires:
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The GWR 5700 Class, or 57xx class, was a class of 0-6-0 pannier tank steam locomotive, built by the Great Western Railway (GWR) and British Railways (BR) between 1929 and 1950. With 863 built, they were the most prolific class of the GWR, and one of the most numerous classes of British steam locomotive.[2][a] Although officially designated by GWR as "light goods and shunting engines", [3] they were also used for passenger working on branch, suburban, and shorter mainline journeys. They were distributed across most of the GWR network and, after nationalisation of the railways in 1948, across the Western Region of British Railways, and also other regions. As a result of the 1955 Modernisation Plan, the 5700 Class was withdrawn from BR service between 1956 and 1966. Nineteen withdrawn locomotives were sold to London Transport and industry, of which ten were later preserved, along with six that were retrieved from scrapyards. 3692 was built in 1941 and withdrawn in 1964
