GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton

GWR Route: North Warwickshire Line

Tyseley Shed: gwrt2390

Great Western Railway 0-6-0ST 1901 Class No 2005 is stabled on one of Tyseley shed's roads alongside the coaling stage. The 850 Class of the Great Western Railway was an extensive class of small 0-6-0 saddle tank locomotives designed by George Armstrong and built at the Wolverhampton Works of the Great Western Railway between 1874 and 1895. The locomotives from No. 1216 onwards were originally described as a separate class, the 1901 Class. The original 36 locomotives had their domes on the firebox, while the domes of the rest were on the middle of the boiler. The two classes became more uniform on rebuilding. All had full-length saddle-tanks; the wheels were 4 foot 0 inches diameter, the wheelbase was 13 foot 8 inches, and cylinders 15 inches x 24 inches. They had inside frames. Pannier tanks were fitted from 1910, as rebuilding with Belpaire boilers took place, and from 1924 larger coal bunkers were fitted to many of the class.

An original photograph by GS Lloyd

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