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BR British Railways Steam Locomotive Class GW '4900' Hall Class 4-6-0 4918 Dartington Hall

 

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4920 Dumbleton Hall is a GWR 4900 Class 4-6-0 steam locomotive, built by the Great Western Railway's Swindon Works in March 1929.
Named after Dumbleton Hall, its first shed allocation was at Old Oak Common.
In August 1950, the next shed allocation was Reading, and in March 1959 it was allocated to Newton Abbot.

 

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BR British Railways Steam Locomotive Class GW '4900' Hall Class 4-6-0 4922 Enville Hall at Shiphay Bridge in 1957

 

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GWR 4073 'Castle' Class 7037 'Swindon' and GWR 4900 'Hall Class' 4924 'Eydon Hall'
Great Western Railway 4073 'Castle' Class 7037 'Swindon' and 4900 'Hall Class' 4924 'Eydon Hall' at Swindon steam shed in May 1963. 7037 had already been officially withdrawn at this point.
Both were designed by Chief Mechanical Engineer of the Great Western Railway Charles Collett and both built at Swindon Works. 7037 was built in August 1950 and withdrawn on March 31st 1963 and declared 'cut up on 2 years or so later on 31st August 1965.
4924 was built in May 1929 and withdrawn a few months later from here on October 31st 1963 with the 'cut up' disposal notice declared on June 30th 1964.

 

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4926 Fairleigh Hall (86G). Newport Ebbw Jcn. 1961. GWR-BR Steam Loco

 

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BR British Railways Steam Locomotive Class 4900 4928 at Marazion in 1959

 

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4930 Hagley Hall was built at the Great Western Railway’s Swindon Works and entered traffic in May 1929, at a cost of £5,107. The locomotive is named after Hagley Hall in Worcestershire.

 

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4932 was the first of the class to be built at Horwich in September 1945.
In all 120 were built at Horwich at a cost of £9,500 each for the locomotive and tender, which was £3,000 more than for the first ones built at Crewe in 1935. It became 44932 following the nationalisation of the railways in 1948.

 

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GWR 4934

 

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Great Western Railway Hall class locomotive No. 4936 was built in June 1929 at Swindon works to a design by Mr. C.B. Collett.
One of a class that would eventually number 330, the Hall was designed as a general purpose engine and during a career spanning 30 years, carried out sterling work for the Great Western Railway and British Railways.
The origins of the Hall Class date back to 1924 when Saint Class Loco
2925 was taken into Swindon Works to be rebuilt with larger driving
wheels, a lowered boiler and Castle Class style cab. The result was the
prototype for the versatile and powerful mixed traffic Cl;ass. The cost of
construction of Kinlet Hall in 1929 was £5,209.00 which Included
£1,167.00 for the boiler and £834.00 for the tender. In the course of her
career Kinlet Hall ran a total of 1,339,061 miles, Covering the length and
breadth of the GWR network. She led a nomadic existence, being initially
allocated to Chester and transferring to Shrewsbury , Wolverhampton, Oxford, Banbury, Old Oak Common, Truro, Plymouth and Cardiff. It was during her time in the West Country that Kinlet Hall achieved the unfortunate distinction of falling into a bomb crater, following a heavy raid on Plymouth in 1941, causing extensive damage to the bogie and main frames.