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GWR Collett "5101" Class 2-6-2T

**Class Types**
GWR Class	5101

General

Designer

Charles Collett

Introduced

1929

Grouping Company

Great Western Railway

Description (1957)

Churchward 2-6-2T's with 5' 8" wheels, built 1903-6, and per by Collett between 1929 and 1949. There were originally forty engines of the earlier series, at first numbered 3100 and 3111-3149, but later altered to 5100 and 5111-5149. The prototype was constructed in 1903. Of these, ten were reconstructedin 1938-9 with 5' 6" wheels and renumbered 8100-8109. All except 5148 of the remainder have since been scrapped. Some of the later locomotives (4100-4179, 5101-5110 and 5150-5199) have recently been withdrawn.

Wheel Arrangement

2-6-2T

Number Built as 5101

140

First in Service

11/1929

Last in Service

18/11/1965

Manufacturers

Manufacturer	Total
Swindon Works	140

Orders

Builder	Sponsor	Order #	Date	Size
Swindon Works		257	1929	20
Swindon Works		259	1930	30
Swindon Works		284	1933	10
Swindon Works		292	1935	20
Swindon Works		313	1937	10
Swindon Works		323	1939	10
Swindon Works		335	1946	10
Swindon Works		361	1946	10
Swindon Works		369	1948	20

**Illustration**

Copyright: O. & P. Williams (on behalf of T. E. Williams)

**Power**
Variant Introduced	1929

Complete BR Locomotive Database 1948-1997

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