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Discussion in 'Steam Traction' started by Reading General, Feb 11, 2016.

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  1. Jamessquared

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    Was Wantage Tramway No. 5 ever a GWR loco?

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    Bought by the GWR on closure of the Tramway in '46, as I recall, but I doubt whether she ever steamed in Western ownership and by '48 she'd been plinthed. She was however an LNWR engine at one point, serving on the Cromford & High Peak and at Crewe Works.
     
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  4. Reading General

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    purchased and plinthed at Wantage Rd due to someone recognising her History. Never used by the GWR other than illicit use in retrieving slip coaches which had overshot so I once read.
     
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    That would have been when the loco was still under Wantage Tramway ownership though?
     
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    Indeed. It was used illicitly by GWR employees whilst still in use and owned by Wantage Tramway. Sorry I should have been clearer.
     
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    Come to think of it on the GWR pre-Grouping survivors list there's also the remains of the Oxford, Worcester and Wolverhampton Railway 0-6-0 at Armley Mills.
     
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