GWR 2301 Class
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The Great Western Railway (GWR) 2301 Class or Dean Goods Class is a class of steam locomotive.
[edit] Overview
Wolverhampton railway works built 280 of these locomotives between 1883 and 1899 to a design of William Dean. The class had the 0-6-0 wheel arrangement. The 2301 class broke with previous GWR tradition in having inside frames only and changes were made in the boiler design during the period that they were being built. The first twenty engines were originally domeless though all were provided with domed boilers in due course. They were numbered 2301-2580.
[edit] World War II
Some of these locomotives were requisitioned by the War Department during World War II for war service at home and abroad. A few worked on the Shropshire and Montgomeryshire Railway in the 1940s.
[edit] Preservation
One locomotive, no. 2516 (built 1897), survived into preservation. It is currently a static exhibit at Swindon Steam Railway Museum.
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