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GWR 3232 Class, the Glossary

Index GWR 3232 Class

The 3232 Class, 20 locomotives designed by William Dean and built at Swindon Works for the Great Western Railway in 1892–93, were the GWR's last completely new 2-4-0 design.[1]

Table of Contents

  1. 9 relations: Coal, Great Western Railway, GWR 2201 Class, GWR 806 Class, Joseph Armstrong (engineer), Railway Correspondence and Travel Society, Swindon Works, Wheelbase, William Dean (engineer).

  2. Railway locomotives introduced in 1892

Coal

Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock, formed as rock strata called coal seams.

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Great Western Railway

The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company that linked London with the southwest, west and West Midlands of England and most of Wales.

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GWR 2201 Class

The GWR 2201 Class was a class of steam locomotives built at Swindon Works under the aegis of William Dean for express passenger service on the Great Western Railway. GWR 3232 Class and GWR 2201 Class are 2-4-0 locomotives, Great Western Railway locomotives, passenger locomotives, Scrapped locomotives and Standard gauge steam locomotives of Great Britain.

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GWR 806 Class

The 806 Class (20 locomotives, nos. 806–825) was Joseph Armstrong's last design of mixed-traffic locomotives for the Great Western Railway, built at Swindon Works in 1873. GWR 3232 Class and GWR 806 Class are 2-4-0 locomotives, Great Western Railway locomotives, Scrapped locomotives and Standard gauge steam locomotives of Great Britain.

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Joseph Armstrong (engineer)

Joseph Armstrong (born Bewcastle, Cumberland, 21 September 1816, died Matlock Bath 5 June 1877) was an English locomotive engineer and the second locomotive superintendent of the Great Western Railway.

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Railway Correspondence and Travel Society

The Railway Correspondence and Travel Society (RCTS) is a national society founded in Cheltenham, England in 1928 to bring together those interested in rail transport and locomotives.

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Swindon Works

Swindon Works was opened by the Great Western Railway in 1843 in Swindon, Wiltshire, England.

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Wheelbase

In both road and rail vehicles, the wheelbase is the horizontal distance between the centers of the front and rear wheels.

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William Dean (engineer)

William Dean (8 January 1840 – 24 September 1905) was an English railway engineer.

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See also

Railway locomotives introduced in 1892

References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GWR_3232_Class