Dean Locomotives of the GWR

The Bulldog and Bird classes were double-framed inside cylinder 4-4-0 steam locomotives used for passenger services on the Great Western Railway. The Bird Class were a development of the Bulldogs with strengthened outside frames, of which a total of fifteen were built. A total of 121 Bulldogs were built new, with a further twenty rebuilt from Duke Class locomotives. Thirty Bulldogs were later rebuilt as Earl Class locomotives and renumbered 3265 (prototype conversion), 3200-3228.
No. 3312 Bulldog was built in October 1898, with curved outside frames, a domed parallel boiler with a raised Belpaire firebox and a wrapper-type smokebox. The boiler was a prototype for the parallel version of Churchward's Standard No. 2 boilers.[2] Bulldog was originally classed as a variant of the Duke Class.
In October 1899 no. 3352 Camel appeared with the final form of the parallel No. 2 boiler, domeless, with a raised Belpaire firebox and a circular drumhead smokebox supported on a curved saddle. A further twenty locomotives, nos. 3332 to 3351, were built between November 1899 and March 1900. Between May and December 1900 a second batch of twenty Camels (as the class were initially known) were built with straight-topped outside frames. These were numbered 3353 to 3372. A third batch, 3413 to 3432 were built between December 1902 and May 1903; these were the last to be built with parallel boilers.
In September 1903 no. 3443 Birkenhead was built with a tapered Standard No. 2 boiler. The boiler was tapered only over the rear half of the barrel, and this type became known as the "half-cone"; a later version of the No. 2 boiler was tapered over three-quarters of the barrel. A further twenty-nine locomotives were built with the half-cone boiler between September 1903 and April 1904, bringing the class total to ninety-one.
Between April and September 1906 thirty locomotives were built with the three-quarter coned No. 2 boiler. In March 1906, Bulldog was rebuilt with the same type of boiler, and the class now became known as the Bulldog Class. From October 1906 to January 1909 eighteen of the Duke Class were converted to Bulldogs by the fitting of No. 2 boilers. A further member of the Duke Class, no. 3273 Armorel, had been fitted with a parallel domeless boiler in February 1902, thus becoming a Camel Class locomotive. It ran with tapered boilers of various types from April 1906.
The Bird Class were a development of the Bulldog Class with deeper outside frames and a new type of bogie.Previously all outside framed bogies on GWR locomotives had been of the Dean centreless type. Churchward adapted a French design of bogie, as used on the de Glehn Atlantics, to produce a bar-framed bogie for his standard locomotives. This inside-framed bogie design was adapted to produce an outside-framed replacement for the Dean bogie. The Birds were built in two batches; nos. 3731 to 3735 in May 1909 and nos. 3736 to 3745 from November 1909 to January 1910.
This class were subject to the 1912 renumbering of GWR 4-4-0 locomotives, which saw the Bulldog Class gathered together in the series 3300-3455, and other types renumbered out of that series. The 3300-3455 series had previously contained locomotives of Duke, Badminton, Atbara, City and a number of Bulldog class locomotives.
No. 3320 Avalon was the first of the Bulldog Class to be withdrawn, in August 1929, followed by no. 3365 Charles Grey Mott, withdrawn in January 1930. The frames of 3365 were used to construct the first of the Earl Class, no. 3265 Tre Pol and Pen. The last to be withdrawn was no. 3377 Penzance in January 1951.
All of the Bird Class survived into British Railways ownership, being withdrawn between April 1948 and November 1951,
the last two being no. 3453 Seagull and no. 3454 Skylark.
3454 Skylark took part in the SLS Bulldog Special 17th June 1951
3 photos of the tour
3454 Skylark unknown location SLS Bulldog Special 17th June 1951
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Full collection of over 110 photos starts here with
3302 Sir Lancelot Old Oak Common c1930
https://tinyurl.com/f7pcdjb5

Neil.
https://tinyurl.com/234s9hzy

 

Photo 56 is of Atbara class No. 3396 Brisbane, & taken prior to 1904.

Clues:
1: Wheels are too big for a Bulldog;
2: Nameplate is full width over the splasher;
3: As-built boiler;
4: Buffer plank 3s have flat tops.

Brisbane was renumbered 4142 in 1912, & its old number was transferred to 3458 Natal Colony.

 

The GWR 4100 Class was a class of steam locomotives in the Great Western Railway (GWR) of the United Kingdom.
The Badminton class express passenger 4-4-0 steam locomotives were introduced in 1897 as a development from the earlier Duke class. The name Badminton was chosen after the Duke of Beaufort's Badminton estate, through which the GWR was building a new line to South Wales at the time
Further modifications to the design resulted in the Atbara Class entering service in 1900, the names for these locomotives generally being taken from contemporary military engagements or senior army commanders. Later engines were named after cities of the British Empire.
The final batch of locomotives were named after varieties of garden plant and in consequence were known as the Flower Class.
These three types were later standardised and treated as a single class, so are listed together here. Four other prototype 4-4-0s, originally built in 1894 as the Armstrong Class, were also later rebuilt as Badmintons.
This class were subject to the 1912 renumbering of GWR 4-4-0 locomotives, which saw the Bulldog Class gathered together in the series 3300-3455, and other types renumbered out of that series. This class took numbers 4100-4172 (of which numbers 4101-4120 had previously been used by Flower Class locomotives).
This first collection featured the Atabara class
No. 3373 Atbara was built in April 1900, the first of a class of forty locomotives Instead of the curved outside frames of the Badmintons, this class had straight-topped frames, which became the standard pattern for all subsequent outside-framed 4-4-0s. These straight frames were less prone to fracturing, because of the greater depth of plate between the coupled wheels The Atbaras retained the Stroudley crank layout, cylinders, valves and valve gear of the Badmintons, but differed in the boiler, which was a parallel domeless Standard No. 2 type. No. 3405 Mauritius was reboilered in September 1902 with a tapered boiler, a prototype for the Standard No. 4 type. It was the first GWR 4-4-0 to be fitted with a tapered (or coned) boiler. Following this, another nine Atbaras, nos. 3400 to 3404 and 3406 to 3409, were rebuilt with No. 4 boilers between February 1907 and February 1909. The ten were added to the City Class. No. 3382 Mafeking was heavily damaged in an accident on 24 June 1911. Adjudged unrepairable, it was withdrawn in September 1911, so was not included in the 1912 renumbering. The remaining Atbaras were withdrawn between April 1927 and May 1931
Including this photo of
3374 Britannia in full Royal Train regalia poses at Laira in March 1902 (temparary name fitted) for Royal Train duty Paddington to Kingswear
https://tinyurl.com/49xuzkba

Full collection starts here with
3373
https://tinyurl.com/y93xvzwv

Neil.
https://tinyurl.com/49xuzkba

 

I have added a new collection of photos featuring William Dean GWR 4-4-0 loco designs
The Flower Class were fitted with deeper outside frames than the Atbaras, and a new design of bogie developed from the type fitted to the French de Glehn Atlantics.[26] Twenty of the class were built between April 1910 and January 1913. Three were withdrawn in July 1927, with the last withdrawal, no. 4150 Begonia, going in April 1931.
Including this one, just look at that headboard
4120 Stephanotis posed photo of the loco on Royal Train duty
https://tinyurl.com/y9b9a5fd
Full collection starts here with
4102 Begonia
https://tinyurl.com/e3navxnr

Neil

 

I have added a new collection of photos featuring William Dean GWR 4-4-0 loco designs
The Dean 4100 Badminton class (hopefully they are, renumberings were confusing)
Including this photo of
3297 Earl Cawdor fitted with a large cab with two side windows, reminiscent of North Eastern practice.
https://tinyurl.com/5na2c372
Full collection of original numbered locos starts here
https://tinyurl.com/4tdajps3
renumbered locos start here
https://tinyurl.com/3a7r83e9

Neil

 

Neil

 

I have added new photos featuring William Dean GWR 4-4-0 loco designs
The Dean 3300 Bulldog/Bird class (hopefully they are, renumberings were confusing)
Starting here with
3307 Exmoor unknown location
https://tinyurl.com/ymy4b4sr

Neil

 

I have added new photos featuring William Deans ‘Aberdare’ class
Dean’s 2600 Class or Aberdare Class was a class of 2-6-0 steam locomotive built between 1900 and 1907. They were a freight version of the 3300 and 4120 classes designed for hauling coal trains between Aberdare and Swindon.
All loco apart from one were withdrawn before B.R. Came into being
Including this cab view photo of
2662 withdrawn at Swindon 3rd September 1947
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full collection starts here with
2607
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to
2678
https://tinyurl.com/yckjvrnz

Neil

 

I have added a new collection featuring William Dean 3206 Barnum class 2-4-0
The 3206 or Barnum Class consisted of 20 locomotives built at Swindon Works for the Great Western Railway in 1889, and was William Dean's most successful 2-4-0 design. Numbered 3206-3225, they were the last GWR locos built with "sandwich" frames (outside frames consisting of timber between two sheets of steel).
There are some photos of the locos at Crewe and Chester
Including 3222 at both Chester and Crewe
3222 Chester
https://tinyurl.com/3wa25cfn
and at Crewe
https://tinyurl.com/yn9xawhd

Full collection starts here
https://tinyurl.com/yckmfzew

Neil

 

I have added a new collection featuring William Dean 2301 'Dean Goods' class 0-6-0
In 1917, 62 engines were taken over by the Railway Operating Division and sent to France. 46 of these engines returned to England in the early summer of 1919, but the other 16 had been sent on to Salonika at the beginning of 1918. Two of these engines, nos 2308 and 2542, were sold to the Ottoman (Aiden) Railways[disambiguation needed] and renumbered 110 and 111. No 111 was withdrawn in September 1929, but 110 lasted until the 1950s. Of the 14 engines remaining at Salonika, six were written-off and the other eight returned to England in April 1921.
At the outbreak of the Second World War, the War Department requisitioned 100 of these engines from the GWR and the GWR had to hastily reinstate some engines that had been recently withdrawn. The requisitioned engines were fitted with Westinghouse brakes and 10 were fitted with pannier tanks and condensing gear. All were painted black with their WD numbers painted on. In December 1940, the War Department requisitioned a further 8 engines.
At the time of the German invasion of France, 79 of these engines had been shipped to France. Some of the engines were destroyed in the retreat to Dunkirk whilst the remainder were used on the French railways by the German occupation forces. After the war, between 22 and 26 engines were sent to China under UNRRA auspices, and 30 were returned to the UK, but were deemed unfit for service and scrapped. No.2435 (WD no.188) was used in Silesia and then Austria until 1948 when it was claimed by the Russians before being handed back to the Austrians in 1952. Two further engines, nos. 2419 and 2526 (WD nos. 106 and 132) were used by "Gedob" The General Direktion for the German Ost Bahn (Eastern Railway) headquartered in Krakow. The Ostbahn included Direktion's (Regions) in Occupied Poland, Ukraine, Crimea and The Baltic States. All being converted to standard gauge by the Gedob. Ostbahn regions in the former Soviet Union included RVD Riga, RVD Minsk, RVD Kiev, RVD Poltawa (Rostow) and RVD Djnepropetropwsk (Crimea). Ostbahn Directions in occupied Soviet territory were closed as the Soviet Advance moved toward Berlin between 1942 and the end of 1944. WD 132 was noted in 1945 in store at Hassfurt (Bavaria). Various locations in Northern Bavaria were used for storage at this time including locomotives and roiling stock - by 1945 the Ostbahn HQ was located in Bayreuth (Bavaria). No 132 was shown amongst the stock inventory of the Deutsche Bundesbahn in 1950 allocated to Aachen West Depot (Stored as withdrawn). Was WD 132 in the process of being returned to the UK movements and locations in 1945 would indicate it was being returned and may have failed at Aachen.[citation needed] The remaining engines are assumed to have been scrapped.
Of the engines that remained in England, most of them worked at War Department and Ordnance depots around the country, though in 1943, 6 were shipped to Tunisia and thence to Italy.
Some locomotives of the class have the unusual distinction of being shipped overseas in both World Wars. 32 of the 108 locomotives requisitioned during the Second World War had been previously requisitioned during the First World War, and of those 32, 24 were again sent overseas.

Included is now preserved 2516
2516 Methyr shed 12th May 1956
https://tinyurl.com/mr8cxzm5
2516 now preserved Dean Goods and 4003 North Star Swindon works stock shed 4th May 1958
https://tinyurl.com/bde9bcy2

also included is this photo of
3908 2-6-4T these were converted by Churchward using Dean Goods frames, wheels and motion with Churchward single cone boiler
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Full collection starts here with
2503
https://tinyurl.com/2p92zpu2
to 2414
https://tinyurl.com/2p97euce
to 2467
https://tinyurl.com/2p92aczt
to 2579
https://tinyurl.com/389tay5v

Neil

 

I have added some new photos to the collection of William Deans 4100 Atbara class 4-4-0
Including this rather strange named loco, anyone know the origins of the name please?
3390 Terrible Bristol T.M. c1908
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New photos start here with
3373 Atbara Bristol Temple Meads
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to
3397 Cape Town Bristol T.M.
https://tinyurl.com/52ubby2e

Neil

 

I have added 15 new photo to the collection of Dean Single, 3031 Class, or Achilles Class
The Dean Single, 3031 Class, or Achilles Class was a type of steam locomotive built by the British Great Western Railway between 1891 and 1899. They were designed by William Dean for passenger work. The first 30 members of the class were built as 2-2-2s of the 3001 Class.
The first eight members of the class (numbers 3021-3028, built April–August 1891) were built as convertible 7 ft 1⁄4 in (2,140 mm) broad gauge 2-2-2 locomotives, being converted to standard gauge in mid-1892, at the end of broad gauge running on the Great Western Railway. A further 22 were built in late 1891 and early 1892, this time as standard gauge engines.
No. 3021 was rebuilt as a 4-2-2 in March 1894. Between June and December 1894 the 28 remaining locomotives of the 3001 class were rebuilt. The first of a further 50 new bogie singles was also built in March 1894, the last of the class being outshopped in March 1899. These new locomotives differed from the rebuilds in having their cylinder diameter reduced from 20 to 19 inches (508 to 483 mm), and the springs for the trailing wheels located above the footplate and outside the cab, necessitating a reduced width for the latter. The rebuilds subsequently had their cylinders lined down to 19 inches (483 mm).[8] The entire class, as they required it, had their driving wheels fitted with thicker tyres from 1898 onwards, increasing the wheel diameter by one-half inch (12.7 mm) to 7 ft 8+1⁄2 in (2.350 m).
In 1900, George Jackson Churchward replaced the boiler on number 3027 Worcester with a parallel Standard 2 boiler. Twelve further engines were similarly converted in 1905 and 1906.
Despite the locomotives' speed, the 4-2-2 design was soon found to be outdated and unsuitable for more modern operation. A proposal to improve their performance by fitting them with long-travel valves was found to be impracticable; the existing valves were directly driven from eccentrics mounted on the driving axle, and there was insufficient clearance to fit larger eccentrics. Churchward considered rebuilding the class as Armstrong Class 4-4-0s with 7 ft 2 in (2.184 m) coupled wheels. The cylinder centre line would then be 3.5 in (89 mm) above the driving centre, due to the 7 in (178 mm) difference in driving wheel diameter. This scheme was not carried through because the connecting rods would not clear the lower slide bar, and the valve gear would be out of alignment. An alternative proposal to drop the locomotive 3.5 in (89 mm), and raise the buffer beam and dragbox, was also rejected on the grounds of cost. The class were gradually withdrawn between 1908 and 1915, with the last survivor, no. 3074 Princess Helena, being withdrawn in December 1916.

New photos start here with
3006 Courier unknown location
https://tinyurl.com/yckk6jzm

Neil.

 

The 157 Class of 2-2-2 steam locomotives designed in 1878-9 by William Dean was originally regarded as a reconstruction or renewal of Joseph Armstrong's own 157 Class of 1862. But, as was often the case, these Dean engines were new, and had more in common with Armstrong's more recent, and larger, Queen Class, than with the original 157s. The latter had themselves been rebuilds of engines originally built by Sharp, Stewart & Co., which was probably the source of the enduring nickname Sharpies for the new engines. They were also known as Cobhams, after the name carried by No. 162 throughout its life. No. 158 later carried the name Worcester and No. 163 may have been named Beaufort, though this seems uncertain.
The class was numbered 157-166 and constructed at Swindon Works as Lot 51, and in their original state they were among the most beautiful engines ever built for the GWR. Some were shedded at Wolverhampton, others at Westbourne Park near Paddington, and they worked on express trains alongside the Queen Class. Most were withdrawn in 1903-6, though No. 165 survived until December 1914
Just 4 photos in this collection starting here with
158 unknown location
https://tinyurl.com/ycktm7su

Neil.

 

The GWR 1854 Class was a class of 0-6-0T steam locomotives designed by William Dean and constructed at the Swindon Works of the Great Western Railway. The class used similar inside frames and chassis dimensions to the 1813 Class of 1882-4. In this they differed from the intervening 1661 Class, which had reverted to the double frames of the Armstrong era. Thus the 1854 Class belongs to the "mainstream" of GWR 0-6-0T classes that leads towards the larger GWR pannier tanks of the 20th century.
The 120 1854s were built in six batches between 1890 and 1895:
1854-1873 (Lot 79, 1890)
1874-1893 (Lot 83, 1890–91)
1701-1720 (Lot 85, 1891)
1721-1740 (Lot 88, 1892)
1751-1770 (Lot 89, 1892-3)
905-907, 1791–1800, 1894-1900 (Lot 98, 1895)
Rebuilding
The engines were rebuilt during their working lives with various forms of boiler and saddle tanks, and they were also rebuilt as pannier tanks between 1909 and 1932 as Belpaire fireboxes were fitted. Most of the class worked in the GWR's Southern Division, the majority of them in South Wales. Two examples were to be found in the GWR London Division at time of nationalisation. Numbers 907 and 1861 were allocated to 81E (Didcot) in August 1950. All achieved one million miles (1,600,000 km), and 23 of the class passed into British Railways stock in 1948, the last of them being withdrawn in 1951.

Just a couple of photos of the class as built 0-6-0ST
1874 unknown location
https://tinyurl.com/mr2azt4j

as rebuilt as 0-6-0PT start here with
1709 Swindon 16th November 1912
https://tinyurl.com/mrx9m7ey

Neil

 

The Dean 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. Their number series was 3232-3251.
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.
Just 6 photos in this collection
https://tinyurl.com/dmkvbct

Neil.