0-6-0PT Class 94xx GWR Profile and Models

0-6-0PT Class 94xx GWR

9466 at Tyseley in June 2008. ©Tony Hisgett

The Great Western Railway 9400 Class is a class of 0-6-0 pannier tank steam locomotive, used for shunting and banking duties. The 9400 class was the final development in a long lineage of tank locomotives that can be directly traced to the 645 Class of 1872. Over the decades details altered, the most significant being the adoption of Belpaire fireboxes necessitating pannier tanks. The first ten 9400s were the last steam engines built by the GWR. After nationalisation in 1948, another 200 were built by private contractors for British Railways. Most had very short working lives as the duties for which they were designed disappeared through changes in working practices or were taken over by diesel locomotives. Two locomotives survived into preservation, with the oldest of the class, 9400 as part of the National Collection.

(Information provided via Wikipedia)

Type of Locomotive

Steam

Builder

GWR Swindon Works
R Stephenson & Hawthorns
W.G. Bagnall
Yorkshire Engine Company

Build Date

1947 to 1956

Total Built

210

Tractive Effort

22,515 lbf

Wheel Configuration

0-6-0PT

Operated By

Great Western Railway
British Railways

Main Duties

Shunting & Banking

In Service Until

1965

Surviving Examples

2