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2857 is a GWR Churchward 2800 Class locomotive, designed for heavy freight work and classified 8F by BR.   
 
2857 is a GWR Churchward 2800 Class locomotive, designed for heavy freight work and classified 8F by BR.   
  
It was built in 1918 at the GWR’s Swindon Works and delivered new to Salisbury GWR depot. During a working life of 45 years it was based in many depots around the GWR (and later British Railways Western Region), including a brief spell at nearby Stourbridge shed. The locomotive was withdrawn from Neath depot in April 1963 having recorded a total of 1,276,713 miles in service.
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It was built in 1918 at the GWR’s Swindon Works and delivered new to Salisbury GWR depot. During a working life of 45 years it was based in many depots around the GWR (and later British Railways Western Region), including a brief spell at nearby Stourbridge shed. The locomotive was withdrawn from Neath depot in April 1963 having recorded a total of 1,276,713 miles in service. It is fitted to a 3500 gallon tender.
  
 
==2857 in preservation==
 
==2857 in preservation==

Revision as of 17:16, 27 January 2015

2857 approaching Highley

2857 in service

2857 is a GWRGreat Western Railway ChurchwardGeorge Jackson Churchward, Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) of the Great Western Railway 1902-1922 2800 Class locomotive, designed for heavy freight work and classified 8FThe British Railways system of classifying steam locomotives by power using a number from 0, least powerful, to 9, most powerful, followed by either F for freight, P for Passenger or MT for Mixed Traffic. by BRBritish Rail or British Railways.

It was built in 1918 at the GWRGreat Western Railway’s Swindon Works and delivered new to Salisbury GWRGreat Western Railway depot. During a working life of 45 years it was based in many depots around the GWRGreat Western Railway (and later British Railways Western Region), including a brief spell at nearby Stourbridge shed. The locomotive was withdrawn from Neath depot in April 1963 having recorded a total of 1,276,713 miles in service. It is fitted to a 3500 gallon tender.

2857 in preservation

2857 was purchased from Woodham Bros scrap yard in 1974 by The 2857 Society, and moved by rail from BarryWoodham Brothers Scrapyard, Barry, South Wales. The source of many locomotives now in preservation. to the Severn Valley Railway in convoy with CollettCharles Benjamin Collett, Chief Mechanical Engineer (CME) of the Great Western Railway 1922-1941 MogulLocomotive with a 2-6-0 wheel configuration 7325, arriving on 20th August 1975.

The locomotive was first steamed in preservation on 9th September 1979, minus cladding, and was steamed intermittently through 1980, without entering regularly in service. It finally entered service in August 1985, and worked until withdrawn for overhaul in December 1994 (1992 was spent on loan to the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Steam Railway).

After overhaul, it re-entered service in July 2011.


Sources

The 2857 Society Retrieved 23 January 2015

See Also

List of Steam Locomotives