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The Great Western Railway (GWR) 3000 Class was a class of 2-8-0 steam locomotive consisting of the ex-Railway Operating Division ROD 2-8-0. These were built by North British Locomotive Co. between 1917 and 1918. No examples have been preserved.
The GWR borrowed several ROD 2-8-0s during the First World War but these were returned to the government after the end of the war. In 1919, GWR bought 20 virtually new RODs, and numbered them 3000–19. A further 84 were hired in July 1919, and were numbered 3020-99 and 6000–3, but these were returned in October 1922. In 1925, the GWR bought 80 engines (including some previously hired) and numbered them 3020–99.
In 1926/7 the GWR sorted the eighty RODs bought in 1925 which had been given nos. 3020–99 into two batches, which involved considerable renumbering. The worst fifty were touched up and returned to traffic with steel fireboxes and painted the original R.O.D. black
and renumbered 3050–99; [1] they were run until they failed, when they were withdrawn – after July 1930, only one remained, being withdrawn the following year. [2] The best thirty were thoroughly overhauled, fitted with copper fireboxes and painted G.W. standard green
, [1] they also acquired Swindon fittings, including top feed and brass safety valve casing, and were renumbered 3020–49. Nos. 3000–19 (bought 1919) were also overhauled similarly to the new nos. 3020–49 between 1927 and 1929, but were not further renumbered. [2] The leading dimensions of the GWR 3000 Class were the same as the GCR Class 8K except that the GWR increased the boiler pressure to 185 psi (1,280 kPa) which increased the tractive effort from 31,327 lbf (139,350 N) to 32,197 lbf (143,220 N).
The GWR borrowed 30 Class O4 from the LNER in November 1940, of which two were returned the following April; ten were returned in July–August 1942 and the rest in January–February 1943. On the GWR, they retained their LNER numbers, which were scattered between 5391 and 6639. [3] Three of these had been hired by the GWR between 1919 and 1922:
| ROD number | First hire | GWR number | Returned to ROD | LNER number | Loaned to GWR | Returned to LNER |
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| 1685 | December 1919 | 3075 | October 1922 | 6321 | November 1940 | January 1943 |
| 1608 | December 1919 | 3082 | October 1922 | 6365 | November 1940 | January 1943 |
| 1827 | March 1920 | 3095 | October 1922 | 6258 | November 1940 | July 1942 |
Forty-six of the RODs entered British Railways service in 1948. Five locomotives (numbers 3011, 3015, 3024, 3036 and 3041) were still in service in 1957 [6] and of these, nos. 3036/41 were withdrawn in March 1958, the others in October the same year. [7] None of the GWR RODs has survived to preservation.
In November 2011, Bachmann released a OO gauge ready to run model of the 3000 class. This complements kits in various gauges.
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