Hawksworth GWR Pannier Tanks Class 1500,1600 & 9400

The Great Western Railway (GWR) 9400 Class is a class of 0-6-0 pannier tank steam locomotive, used for shunting and banking duties.
The first ten 9400s were the last steam engines built by the GWR. After nationalisation in 1948, another 200 were built by private contractors for British Railways (BR). Most had very short working lives as the duties for which they were designed disappeared through changes in working practices or were taken over by diesel locomotives. Two locomotives survived into preservation, with the oldest of the class, 9400 as part of the National Collection. The 9400 class was the final development in a long lineage of tank locomotives that can be directly traced to the 645 Class of 1872. Over the decades details altered, the most significant being the adoption of Belpaire fireboxes necessitating pannier tanks.
The 9400 resembled a pannier tank version of the 2251 class, and indeed shared the same boiler and cylinders as the 2251, but was in fact a taper-boilered development of the 8750 subgroup of the 5700 class. The advantage was a useful increase in boiler power, but there was a significant weight penalty that restricted route availability. The 10 GWR-built locomotives had superheaters but the remainder did not.
The first ten 9400s 9400-9409 were built by the Great Western and were the last steam engines built by the company. After the nationalisation of Britain's railways in 1948, private contractors built another 200 for British Railways.
The 9400s were numbered 9400–9499, 8400–8499 and 3400–3409.

This collection features 9400-9409 the only class 9400 built by the GWR
Including this photo of
9400,9445,8421,8492,9459,9438 Gas works sidings Swindon 21st August 1960
https://tinyurl.com/pv66bjf8

Neil

 

I have a added a new collection of photos featuring the Hawksworth 9400 0-6-0PT
This collection features 8450–8479 built by Yorkshire Engine Company 1949–1952
Including this photo of
8473 shunting 'the Royal Duchy' stock at Penzance July 1959
https://tinyurl.com/zb9ch395
Full collection starts here with
8451 Southall 8th May 1960
https://tinyurl.com/yc6df55a
to
8475
https://tinyurl.com/4hz8ppsx

Neil

 

I have a added a new collection of photos featuring the Hawksworth 9400 0-6-0PT
The Great Western Railway (GWR) 9400 Class is a class of 0-6-0 pannier tank steam locomotive, used for shunting and banking duties.
This collection features 8400–8449 built by W. G. Bagnall 1949–1954
Including this photo of Lickey Banking duty
8401+8402 banking up Lickey 27th July 1960
https://tinyurl.com/3brun7hu
Full collection starts here with
8401 7 8406 Swindon works
https://tinyurl.com/4su6d5t2
to
8413 St Philips Marsh shed 29th April 1950
https://tinyurl.com/4k4u3amb
to
8449
https://tinyurl.com/mpa2bvc4

Neil

 

I have a added a new collection of photos featuring the Hawksworth 9400 0-6-0PT
The Great Western Railway (GWR) 9400 Class is a class of 0-6-0 pannier tank steam locomotive, used for shunting and banking duties.
This collection features 9410–9459 built by Robert Stephenson and Hawthorns 1950–1951
Including this photo of
9430 and 9F 92222 on Swindon shed
https://tinyurl.com/3rnwus5s
Full collection starts here with
9412 leaves Paddington with empty stock 15th February 1959
https://tinyurl.com/yc57uzcp
to
9454 Port Talbot 14th August 1959
https://tinyurl.com/yc35t3ju

Neil

 

I have a added a new collection of photos featuring the Hawksworth 9400 0-6-0PT
The Great Western Railway (GWR) 9400 Class is a class of 0-6-0 pannier tank steam locomotive, used for shunting and banking duties.
This collection features 9460–9489 built by Robert Stephenson and Hawthorns 1950–1953
Just 9 photos in this collection
Starting here with
9469 Old Oak Common September 1960
https://tinyurl.com/4jfjz5v4

Neil.

 

I have a added a new collection of photos featuring the Hawksworth 9400 0-6-0PT
The Great Western Railway (GWR) 9400 Class is a class of 0-6-0 pannier tank steam locomotive, used for shunting and banking duties.
This collection features 8480–8499 built by Robert Stephenson and Hawthorns 1952 (under subcontract from Hudswell Clarke)
Just 10 photos in this collection
Starting here with
8480 and others Worcester shed 31st March 1964
https://tinyurl.com/mrspprpb

Neil.

 

I have the final new collection of photos featuring the Hawksworth 9400 0-6-0PT
The Great Western Railway (GWR) 9400 Class is a class of 0-6-0 pannier tank steam locomotive, used for shunting and banking duties.
This collection features 3400–3409 built by Yorkshire Engine Company 1955–1956 (under subcontract from Hunslet Engine Company)

Just 4 photos in this collection starting here with
3400 Radyr 16th August 1963
https://tinyurl.com/434sftzx

Neil.

 

I have added a new collection of photos featuring the Hawksworth GWR 1500 CLASS 0-6-0PT

The Great Western Railway (GWR) 1500 Class is a class of 0-6-0 pannier tank steam locomotive. Despite being a GWR Hawksworth design, all ten (nos 1500–1509) were completed under the administration of the Western Region of British Railways in 1949, just after Nationalisation.

Coming from a railway company with a well-developed standardisation policy, the 15xx was a strange design finale. Unlike almost all their forebears, they had outside cylinders, Walschaerts valve gear, and a very short wheelbase of 12 ft 10 in (3.91 m) to go round curves of 3.5 chains (231 ft; 70 m). Above footplate level they were very similar to the 9400 class, and shared the same Standard no.10 boiler. The major difference was below the (very small) footplate, where they resembled the USATC S100 Class that the GWR and other railways had used during the Second World War.

Although a sound design, the class had limited usefulness as they were route-restricted by their high weight and were unsuitable for fast running because of their short wheelbase. Largely confined to empty stock workings at London Paddington station, their lives were short; for example 1509 lasted barely ten years in BR service. Four of the class, 1506 to 1509, were based in Wales, Newport Pill, Ebbw Junction & Cardiff Canton, 1508 was withdrawn from that last shed. Like the 1600 and 9400 classes, their construction now appears to have been of doubtful value.

The onset of dieselisation and the decline in traffic on the railway network consigned the 1500s to scrap long before they were life-expired. However 1501 has enjoyed regular use at the Severn Valley Railway in preservation for far longer than its life in BR ownership.



Including this photo of a Hawksworth & Collett 0-6-0PT

1500 & 8767 Paddington ecs working 1st August 1955

https://tinyurl.com/5n6wuw3h


Full collection starts here with

1500 at Paddington

https://tinyurl.com/5fmr96mc

to

1509 Swindon works September 1959

https://tinyurl.com/mtw43mnr


Neil

https://tinyurl.com/5n6wuw3h

 

The Great Western Railway (GWR) 1600 Class is a class of 0-6-0 pannier tank steam locomotive designed by F. Hawksworth for light branch lines, short-distance freight transfers and shunting duties.
The class was based on the 2021 class designed by Dean and built from 1897 onwards. The 2021 class was in its turn an enlargement of the 850 class designed by Armstrong in 1874.
The 1600 Class was a pure GWR design but all 70 were built by the Western Region of British Railways. When the last member of the class was built in 1955, the basic design was over 80 years old; No. 1669 was the last one built, and in turn was the last GWR-design locomotive constructed at Swindon Works. BR gave the 1600 class the power classification 2F. The class's service life was short; withdrawals started in 1959 and all were gone by 1966, with 1659 having the shortest service (built 1955, withdrawn 1960). Two were sold for further use to the National Coal Board: 1600 in 1959 (scrapped 1963), and 1607 in 1965 (scrapped 1970). The last three in BR service were Nos. 1628, 1638 and 1660, all withdrawn from Croes Newydd shed.

Two locomotives (1646 and 1649) were transferred to the Scottish Region in 1957 and 1958 to operate the Dornoch Light Railway.
1646 & 1649 Helmsdale July 1960
https://tinyurl.com/22ardxy2
https://tinyurl.com/s798p9yj
Full collection of 55 photos starts here with
1600 Barry shed 13th September 1953
https://tinyurl.com/2jz5afnf
to
1622 unknown location
https://tinyurl.com/mj535x4j
to
1643 at Burry Port 13th June 1954
https://tinyurl.com/4ydr3xbp
to
1669 unknown location
https://tinyurl.com/36bpbpue

Neil