GWR No 1490
Built in 1898 this odd experimental locomotive is arguably significant only as having the first set of pannier tanks. It had outside frames and an unconventional firebox, wider than it was long and initially featuring water tubes inside the firebox. Apparently it was unsuccessful in its designed role as a passenger engine and was relegated to shunting duties before being sold off. Initially it went to the Ebbw Vale Steel and Iron Co, then to the Brecon & Merthyr at a time when they were particularly in need of locomotives and finally to a Northumberland colliery, who scrapped it in 1929.
The sketch is better founded than some, in spite of it being based only on a weight diagram, because there are some excellent photographs available. Its difficult to imagine it as an industrial shunter, but maybe the colliery got it very cheap!
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