GWR Route: Banbury to Wolverhampton

GWR Route: North Warwickshire Line

Tyseley Shed: gwrt2391

Great Western Railway 0-6-0ST 1901 Class No 2005 is seen after being modified to receive a pannier tank. The GWR 1901 Class was a class of 120 small 0-6-0 saddle tank steam locomotives. Allocated No 1901 to No 2020, they were designed by George Armstrong (responsible to William Dean at Swindon) and built at the Wolverhampton railway works, England, of the Great Western Railway between 1881 and 1895. They had wheels of 4 foot 0 inches diameter and a coupled wheelbase of 13 foot 8 inches. The class was considered to be part of the very similar 850 Class after the latter was reboilered in the 1890s. The whole series was later rebuilt again as pannier tanks and, in this form, forty-four of them survived into British Railways ownership. They were allocated by BR No 992 and with gaps, No 1903 to No 2019.

An original photograph by LB Lapper

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