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Under the terms of the Railways Act 1921, the Great Western Railway (GWR) amalgamated with six companies – the "constituent companies" - and absorbed a large number of others – the "subsidiary companies". [1] All of the constituent companies and ten of the subsidiary companies owned locomotives, [1] ranging from the Taff Vale Railway which had 275 locomotives (one of which was not taken into GWR stock), to the Cleobury Mortimer and Ditton Priors Light Railway and the Gwendraeth Valleys Railway, with just two each. [2] The constituent companies were amalgamated on 1 January 1922, some of the subsidiary companies being absorbed on the same date, the rest following at intervals until July 1923. [3] Two more undertakings, not mentioned in the Act, which were responsible for shunting at Swansea Docks, sold their locomotives to the GWR soon afterwards. [1]

CompanyStatusDateLocomotivesNotes
Alexandra (Newport and South Wales) Docks and Railway Constituent1 January 192239 [3] [4]
Barry Railway Constituent1 January 1922148 [3] [5]
Cambrian Railways Constituent1 January 192299 [3] [6]
Cardiff Railway Constituent1 January 192236 [3] [7]
Rhymney Railway Constituent1 January 1922123 [3] [8]
Taff Vale Railway Constituent1 January 1922274 [3] [9]
Brecon and Merthyr Tydfil Junction Railway Subsidiary1 July 192247 [10]
Burry Port and Gwendraeth Valley Railway Subsidiary1 July 192215 [11]
Cleobury Mortimer and Ditton Priors Light Railway Subsidiary1 January 19222 [12]
Gwendraeth Valleys Railway Subsidiary1 January 19232 [13]
Llanelly and Mynydd Mawr Railway Subsidiary1 January 19238 [14]
Midland and South Western Junction Railway Subsidiary1 July 192329 [15]
Neath and Brecon Railway Subsidiary1 July 192215 [16]
Port Talbot Railway and Docks Company Subsidiary1 January 192222 [17]
Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway Subsidiary1 January 192237 [18]
South Wales Mineral Railway Subsidiary1 January 19235 [19]
Powlesland and Mason 1 January 19249 [20]
Swansea Harbour Trust 1 July 192314 [21]

Alexandra (Newport and South Wales) Docks and Railway

Thirty-nine locomotives acquired by the GWR on 1 January 1922.

TypeQuantityNos.BuilderYearGWR Nos.Notes
0-4-0ST1 Trojan Avonside Engine Company 18971340Acquired 1903
0-4-0ST1 Alexandra Avonside Engine Company18981341Acquired 1903
0-4-2T114GWR Wolverhampton18771426 GWR 517 Class
0-6-0ST51 to 5 Robert Stephenson & Company 1898–1900674–678

Barry Railway

Brecon and Merthyr Tydfil Junction Railway

Forty-seven locomotives were acquired by the GWR on 1 July 1922

Brecon and Merthyr Tydfil Junction Railway locomotives inherited by the GWR
TypeQuantityNos.BuilderYearGWR Nos.Notes
0-6-0ST 217–18 Sharp, Stewart & Co. 18812190–1 [22]
0-6-0ST 121–8, 13–161884–862177–88 [23]
2-4-0T 59–12, 25Robert Stephenson & Co.1888–89, 18981402/12/52/8/60 [24]
0-6-2ST 419, 20/3/6 Vulcan Foundry 1894, 19051674/7/92, 1833 [25]
0-6-0ST 522, 24, 27–291896, 19002169–73 [26]
0-6-0ST 332–34 Swindon Works 1886–871685/93/4Ex-GWR 1661 Class, acquired 1906–07 [27]
0-6-2T 8 36–43 Robert Stephenson & Co.1909–10, 191411, 21, 332, 504, 698, 888, 1084, 1113 [28]
4-4-2T 144 Beyer Peacock & Co 18791391Ex-LSWR 46 class, acquired 1914 [29]
0-6-2T 6 45–50 Robert Stephenson & Co.1915, 19211372–5, 1668/70 [29]
0-6-0T 135 Kerr, Stuart & Co. 19172161Ex-Railway Operating Division, acquired 1920 [30]

Burry Port and Gwendraeth Valley Railway

Fifteen locomotives were acquired by the GWR on 1 July 1922

Burry Port and Gwendraeth Valley Railway locomotives inherited by the GWR
TypeQuantityNos.BuilderYearGWR Nos.Notes
0-6-0ST 21, 3 Chapman and Furneaux 1900–012192–3 [31]
0-6-0ST44–7 Avonside Engine Company 1903–072194–6, 2176 [32]
0-6-0T 98–12, 2, 15, 13, 14 Hudswell Clarke 1909–192197, 2163, 2198, 2164/5/2/8/6/7 [33]

No. 2164 was withdrawn in 1929, and no. 2163 in 1944; the remaining thirteen were passed on to British Railways, being withdrawn between 1951 and 1959. [12]

Cambrian Railways

Ninety-nine locomotives were acquired by the GWR on 1 January 1922, including five narrow gauge: three on the Vale of Rheidol Railway, and two on the Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway:

NumberNameBuilder Wheel
arr. 		Year builtNotes
1Edward VII Davies & Metcalfe 2-6-2 T 1902Re-numbered 1212 in 1922. Overhauled by the GWR in 1925 and gained traditional Swindon fittings. Saw very little use following the arrival of the 3 new locomotives. In 1932 1212 moved to Swindon works The official withdrawal date is given as 9 March 1935. It was scrapped shortly afterwards. [34]
2Prince of WalesDavies & Metcalfe 2-6-2 T 1902Renumbered 1213 in 1922. Sent to Swindon works in 1924 and scrapped. The number was immediately re-used for the new locomotive 1213 (now No 9) as part of the pretence of a heavy overhaul of the original locomotive.
3 Rheidol Bagnall 2-4-0 T 1896Renumbered 1198 by the GWR in 1923 but withdrawn and scrapped the following year, having never carried its GWR number. [35]
TypeQuantityNos.BuilderYearGWR Nos.Notes
0-6-0T2 WLLR 1 The Earl and 2 Countess Beyer, Peacock & Company 822 and 823

Cardiff Railway

Cleobury Mortimer and Ditton Priors Light Railway

Two locomotives were acquired by the GWR on 1 January 1922

TypeQuantityNos.BuilderYearGWR Nos.Notes
0-6-0ST2Cleobury and Burwarton Manning Wardle 190828 and 29Both rebuilt as 0-6-0PT

Gwendraeth Valleys Railway

Two 0-6-0ST locomotives were acquired by the GWR on 1 January 1923. One was given the GWR number 26, but the second (Margret) was sold in 1923 without being allocated a GWR number.

Llanelly and Mynydd Mawr Railway

Eight locomotives acquired by the GWR on 1 January 1923

Midland and South Western Junction Railway

Neath and Brecon Railway

Port Talbot Railway and Docks Company

Powlesland and Mason

Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway

Thirty-seven locomotives acquired by the GWR on 1 January 1922

Rhymney Railway

South Wales Mineral Railway

Five locomotives acquired by the GWR on 1 January 1923

Swansea Harbour Trust

Taff Vale Railway

275 locomotives were acquired by the GWR on 1 January 1922

Taff Vale Railway locomotives inherited by the GWR
ClassWheelsIntroducedFinal TVR nos.QuantityFirst GWR nos.To BRExtinctNotesRef
A 0-6-2T19143, 7, 10–12, 20, 42/5, 52, 75, 80, 90/1, 120/2–5/7–130/2–6/8–140/4/9, 154/6–160/2/4/5, 400–41658335/7, 343–9, 351/2/6/7, 360–2/4–8, 370–391/3/4/7–9, 401–4/6/8, 438–441581957GWR nos. 401 up allotted 303–9, 312/6, 322 in 1946, renumbered 1947–50 [36]
C4-4-2T1888170–561301–6—1927 [37]
D0-6-0ST1865250, 2702797/8—1926 [38]
E0-6-0ST1873264–52795/6—1927 [39]
H 0-6-0T1884141–33792–431953Renumbered 193–5 during 1948/49 [40]
I4-4-0T1884285–73999, 1133, 1184—1925 [41]
K & L0-6-01874210/7/9, 220, 235/6/9, 242/5, 252/3/9, 261, 281/3/4/8, 297/8, 301/2/4, 313–6, 320/2/5/7/8, 335–7/9, 340, 354/6–36042912–933/5/6/8/9, 941–4/6/8, 968–970/4/8, 984, 1000–2—193043 withdrawn 1907–20 [42]
M & M1 0-6-2T18854, 5, 14–16, 22/4, 50/1/3/4, 71/4, 86–89, 145–8, 150–3, 163/6–9, 176–181, 344/9, 362/4/541442–5, 462/6, 478, 481–4/7–493, 503/5–8, 511/3/5/6, 520, 552, 560/7, 573/7–580/2–6—1934 [43]
N 0-6-2T1891106/7, 182–910485/6, 494–6, 498–502—1934 [44]
O 0-6-2T189421/5/6, 33/4, 1906446–8, 452/3, 581—1930 [45]
O1 0-6-2T189427–29, 37, 41, 60–65, 70/3/814449–451/4/5, 471–7/9, 480—1931 [46]
O2 0-6-2T189931/2, 44, 66, 81–59412/3/5/9, 421/3–6—1928 [47]
O3 0-6-2T190218/9, 47, 55/7, 92/3/6, 103, 117, 126, 131/7, 155, 16115410/1/6–8, 427–35/721948Nos. 410/1 to BR [48]
O4 0-6-2T19071, 2, 6, 8, 9, 13/7, 35/6/8/9, 43/6/8/9, 56/8/9, 67–9, 94/5/7/8, 101/2/4/5/8–116/8/9, 12141236, 278–302, 310/1/3–5/7–321/4, 333, 409, 414, 420411955Nos. 300 up allotted 200–211, 215–220 in 1946; except for 301/2, 314 these were renumbered in 1946–50. [49]
S & T0-4-0ST1876266/721342/3—1926 [50]
U & U1 0-6-2T189523, 30, 40, 72/6/7/9, 191–19815587–593/5–600/2/3—1931 [51]
V0-6-0ST189999, 100, 275, 280, 290/16786–791—1930 [52]

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Notes

  1. 1 2 3 Allcock et al. 1951, p. 15.
  2. ↑ Allcock et al. 1951, sheet opposite p. 17.
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Bryan 2010, p. 87.
  4. ↑ Davies et al. 1966, p. K8.
  5. ↑ Davies et al. 1966, p. K23.
  6. ↑ Davies et al. 1966, p. K53.
  7. ↑ Davies et al. 1966, p. K87.
  8. ↑ Davies et al. 1966, p. K98.
  9. ↑ Davies et al. 1966, p. K134.
  10. ↑ Davies et al. 1966, p. K196.
  11. ↑ Davies et al. 1966, p. K212.
  12. 1 2 Davies et al. 1966, p. K218.
  13. ↑ Davies et al. 1966, p. K220.
  14. ↑ Davies et al. 1966, p. K221.
  15. ↑ Davies et al. 1966, p. K226.
  16. ↑ Davies et al. 1966, p. K235.
  17. ↑ Davies et al. 1966, p. K242.
  18. ↑ Davies et al. 1966, p. K248.
  19. ↑ Davies et al. 1966, p. K254.
  20. ↑ Davies et al. 1966, p. K260.
  21. ↑ Davies et al. 1966, p. K256.
  22. ↑ Davies et al. 1966, pp. K201–2.
  23. ↑ Davies et al. 1966, p. K202.
  24. ↑ Davies et al. 1966, p. K204.
  25. ↑ Davies et al. 1966, pp. K204–5.
  26. ↑ Davies et al. 1966, p. K205.
  27. ↑ Davies et al. 1966, p. K206.
  28. ↑ Davies et al. 1966, pp. K206–7.
  29. 1 2 Davies et al. 1966, p. K208.
  30. ↑ Davies et al. 1966, p. K209.
  31. ↑ Davies et al. 1966, pp. K214–5.
  32. ↑ Davies et al. 1966, pp. K214–6.
  33. ↑ Davies et al. 1966, pp. K216–7.
  34. ↑ Green, 1986, page 187
  35. ↑ Green, 1986, pages 204-205
  36. ↑ Davies et al. 1966, pp. K187–K191.
  37. ↑ Davies et al. 1966, pp. K176–K177.
  38. ↑ Davies et al. 1966, pp. K149–K150.
  39. ↑ Davies et al. 1966, pp. K151–K152.
  40. ↑ Davies et al. 1966, pp. K169–K171.
  41. ↑ Davies et al. 1966, pp. K171–K172.
  42. ↑ Davies et al. 1966, pp. K153–K159.
  43. ↑ Davies et al. 1966, pp. K172–K176.
  44. ↑ Davies et al. 1966, pp. K177–K178.
  45. ↑ Davies et al. 1966, p. K179.
  46. ↑ Davies et al. 1966, pp. K179–K181.
  47. ↑ Davies et al. 1966, pp. K183–K184.
  48. ↑ Davies et al. 1966, pp. K184–K185.
  49. ↑ Davies et al. 1966, pp. K185–K187.
  50. ↑ Davies et al. 1966, pp. K159–K160.
  51. ↑ Davies et al. 1966, pp. K181–K182.
  52. ↑ Davies et al. 1966, pp. K182–K183.

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