2-4-0 Class 3232 GWR Profile and Models

2-4-0 Class 3232 GWR

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The 3232 Class, 20 2-4-0 locomotives designed by William Dean and built at Swindon Works for the Great Western Railway in 1892-3, were the GWR's last completely new 2-4-0 design. They resembled Dean's own 2201 Class and thus also Armstrong's 806 Class, though they had larger cylinders and a shorter wheelbase. All received Belpaire boilers in the course of the normal varied reboilerings. At the start of their careers these engines replaced their sister 2201s on Swindon-Weymouth trains, on South Wales expresses, and on fast North-to-West trains. Others were in the London and Reading areas, where others also moved when 4-4-0s displaced them from express working. A few went later to Machynlleth and Oswestry, where the last survivor was withdrawn in 1930.

(Information provided via Wikipedia)

Type of Locomotive

Steam

Builder

Great Western Railway

Build Date

1892 to 1893

Total Built

20

Tractive Effort

Unknown

Wheel Configuration

2-4-0

Operated By

Great Western Railway

Main Duties

Passenger Services

In Service Until

1930

Surviving Examples

0

 

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