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Numbers Carried
Company Number Date From
Taff Vale Railway 124 m/e 08/1915
Great Western Railway 357 y/e 1924

Locomotive Specifics
Designer J. Cameron
Class A
Company History TVR/GWR
Wheels 0-6-2T
Builder North British Locomotive Company, Glasgow
To Service During 08/1915
Withdrawal Mon 02/01/1956
Service Life 40 yrs, 5 mths , 2 dys
Total Mileage 795,296

Disposal
Scrapping 4w/e Sat 24/03/1956

Allocations
Code Subsequent Codes Name From Date
    (New) m/e 08/1915
CDF   Cardiff Canton on 15/06/1947 (Snapshot)
86J   Aberdare 8w/e 03/11/1951
88C   Barry 4w/e 24/01/1953
     Withdrawn on 02/01/1956

SLS Allocations*
Type Code Name From Date
ALLOC 86J Aberdare 8w/e 03/11/1951
ALLOC 88C Barry 4w/e 24/01/1953
WDN   m/e 31/01/1956

* Stephenson Locomotive Society data - raw and not yet cross-referenced

Mentions ...
Report Date Title Report Source
31/08/1921 Chester G.W.R. sheds in 1921 The recent demise of Chester (West) shed as a loco. depot adds a touch of nostalgic interest to an August, 1921, allocation list of the depot in its Great Western heyday. This list was carefully compiled for two interested schoolboy visitors, by one of the clerks, with the help of the fitter's labourer who had been furnished as the boys' guide. It was probably quite reasonably accurate at its date. Supplementary notes added at the time were : 4309 was the 'pick' of the passenger engines, 3510 a poor steamer so restricted to station pilot duty (Chester General), 2883 just received from the Factory-we were shown the uncompleted receipt for it; no.1 had also just been through the Factory, and was 'all green', with blacked-over chimney-cap. Engines at Chester : (Passenger and Mixed Traffic) 4-4-0 'City': 3709 Quebec, 3711 City of Birmingham, 3719 City of Exeter; 'Flower': 4146 Sydney; 2-6-0 43xx : 4309, 4337, 4341, 4365, 4374, 4381, 4395, 4398, 5315, 5318, 5322, 5336, 5368, 5369, 5370, 5371, 5385, 5386; 2-4-0 'Stella': 3202; ditto (r/b. from 2-4-0T): 3507, 3508, 3510, 3511, 3518, 3519; 0-6-0 'Dean goods': 2419, 2423, 2431, 2438, 2452, 2477; 2-4-2T: 3609; 2-6-2T: 4517, 4528; 2-4-0T: 1; 0-6-0T '2721 class': 2733(s/t), 2778(p/t); 0-4-2T '517' : 1475. (Freight): 2-8-0: 2810, 2818, 2842, 2862, 2864, 2867, 2883; 2-6-0 'Aberdare': 2628, 2653, 2654, 2678; 0-6-0 D/F. 'Beyer': 357; 'Standard Goods': 512, 601, 701. 4' 7½' 'Coal' : 934, 942; 0-6-0T '655 class': 655, 1741, 1745; '850 Class': 857, 987(s/t); '1501 class': 654, 1501(s/t), 1548(s/t). '1854 class': 1863. Total engines: 68 (16 tank.) Two additional engines were also noted during the visit both bearing CHR shed mark : 2-4-0 3505 and 0-6-0 D/F. 'Standard Goods' 403. At that time, 'Dean Goods' 2452 was a war veteran; in the 1939 war Nos. 2419/23/38/77 were requisitioned; the first three were lost, and 2477 was one of the engines sent to China as an U.N.R.R.A. contribution, after return from war service. F.H. SLS/196009

Summary
Date Event Details Source See Also
08/1915 To Service To service as Taff Vale Railway Number 124
Built at North British Locomotive Company, Glasgow
   
1924 Renumbered Renumbered to 357    
15/06/1947 Allocation Allocation Snapshot - Cardiff Canton (CDF)    
03/11/1951 Allocation Reallocated to Aberdare (86J)    
24/01/1953 Allocation Reallocated to Barry (88C)    
02/01/1956 Withdrawn Condemned as 357    
24/03/1956 Scrapped Scrapped    

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