Great Western Railway (GWR) 5700 Class 0-6-0PT preserved pannier tank steam locomotive on a breakdown train at night
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Niall Ferguson / Alamy Stock PhotoImage ID:
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5123 x 3659 px | 43.4 x 31 cm | 17.1 x 12.2 inches | 300dpiDate taken:
23 November 2013Location:
Didcot, Oxfordshire UKMore information:
The Great Western Railway (GWR) 5700 Class is a class of 0-6-0 pannier tank steam locomotive, built between 1929 and 1950. 863 were built, making them the one of the most numerous classes of British steam locomotive. The GWR had favoured pannier tank locomotives since 1911 when they had started rebuilding saddle tank locomotives built between 1870 and 1905 into this style. By 1929 these older locomotives were in need of replacement. The first 5700s were almost identical in appearance to several of the older converted locos (e.g. classes 645, 1701, 1854, 2721) and had round spectacles (windows) in the cab front, but those built after 1933 from no. 8750 onwards had rectangular windows and a slightly different cab profile virtually identical to the style introduced with the 5400 Class in 1931. Whilst they can be viewed as a simple update of the 2721 Class Sixteen 5700 class locomotives have been preserved, of which 8 are currently operational. No.3738 was built in 1937