GWR 1000 Class

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1009 County of Carmarthen at Bristol Temple Meads, 1960.
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1009 County of Carmarthen at Bristol Temple Meads, 1960.
1019 County of Merioneth at Bristol Temple Meads, 1960.
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1019 County of Merioneth at Bristol Temple Meads, 1960.

The Great Western Railway 1000 Class or County Class was a class of steam locomotive. 32 were built between 1945 and 1947, but none has survived. But plans to build a replica of 1032 county of bicester a missing which is never built.

These Engines were the result of a development project by the Chief Mechanical Engineer Frederick W. Hawksworth. He was working on a design for a new 4-6-2 Pacific Express engine for the Great Western, the County Class was originally a Modified Hall 6959 Class fitted with a new, 280 psi boiler, a smaller version of that which Hawksworth had intended for his Pacific. The aftermath of War Effort in Britain, however meant that the Railway Executive had the last word as to what companies could or could not build, and, since the Southern Railway had just released its Merchant Navy Class which was a similar device in concept, the project was Shelved. The formation of British Railways in 1948 put paid to the Pacific for ever, however, the now 32 strong Class of engines based on the design of the adapted Modified Hall lived on to do useful work throughout Western Region Territory, Working turn and turn about with Castles on crack expresses to and from Paddington. The engines were given names and numbers of a redundant class of 4-4-0 tender engine that was part of George Jackson Churchward's locomotive standardisation programme in the early days of the 20th century, all of Churchward's Counties had already been scrapped. although there was one member called 1032 county of biester which was never built and is now undergoing construction at didcot, oxfordshire,

BR gave them the power classification 6MT.

[edit] Names

Named as follows:


  • MISSING MEMBERS


  • 1032 County of Bicester
  • 1033 County of Derbyshire
  • 1034 County of Nidderdale
  • 1035 County Durham
  • 1036 County of Nottinghamshire
  • 1037 County of Airedale
  • 1038 County of Lancashire

[edit] Preservation

None of the original engines survived the cutter's torch. However a GWR County replica is to be built at Didcot. This involves the pairing of the frames from Hall Class No.7927 Willington Hall with the boiler from LMS Stanier 8F No. 48518. The new replica of the GWR County will take the both never carried name and number of 1032 County of Bicester. instead of 1014 county of glamorgan

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Locomotives of the Great Western Railway
Broad gauge locomotives
Gooch: Ariadne - Banking - Bogie - Caesar - Caliph - Firefly - Iron Duke - Leo - Metropolitan - Premier - Prince - Pyracmon - Star - Sun - Victoria - Waverley
J. Armstrong: Hawthorn - Iron Duke - Sir Watkin - Swindon
Standard gauge locomotives
Dean: Dean Goods - Aberdare - Dean Single - Duke - Bulldog - 3600 - Badminton
Churchward: The Great Bear - 1361 - County Tank - 2800 - Saint - 3100 - City - County - Star - 4200 - 4300 - 4400 - 4500 - 4700
Collett: 1366 - 1400 - 2251 - 2884 - ex-ROD 2-8-0 - Earl - Castle - 4575 - Hall - 5101 - 5205 - 5400 - 5600 - 5700 - 5800 - King - 6100 - 6400 - Grange - 7200 - 7400 - Manor
Hawksworth: County - 1500 - 1600 - Modified Hall - 9400
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