GWR Bogie Class

The Great Western Railway (GWR) Bogie Class 4-4-0ST were broad gauge steam locomotives for passenger train work. The first two locomotives of this class were introduced into service in August/September 1849, with the remainder following between June 1854 and March 1855. All were withdrawn between October 1871 and December 1880.

Corsair and Brigand

GWR Bogie Class

Type and origin Power type Steam Designer Daniel Gooch Builder Great Western Railway (2) R and W Hawthorn (13) Build date 1849 (GWR-built) 1854-1855 (R and W Hawthorn built) Total produced 15

Specifications Configuration 4-4-0ST Gauge 7 ft 1⁄4 in (2,140 mm) Leading dia 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) Driver diameter 6 ft 0 in (1,829 mm) (GWR built) 5 ft 9 in (1,753 mm) (R and W Hawthorn built) Wheelbase 18 ft 2 in (5.54 m) (GWR built) 18 ft 0 in (5.49 m) (R and W Hawthorn built) Cylinder size 17 in × 24 in (432 mm × 610 mm)

Career Operators Great Western Railway Class Bogie Number in class 15 Withdrawn 1871-1880 Disposition All scrapped

The first two locomotives were built at Swindon railway works in 1849 for working trains on the steep and tightly-curve South Devon Railway which at that time was operated by locomotives from the Great Western Railway. The frames only ran from the front of the flangeless forward driving wheels to the rear buffer beam. The bogie swivelled in a ball-and-socket joint, riveted to a gussett under the boiler barrel. The operation of South Devon Railway had been contracted by that company to Messrs Evans and Geach from 1851 – using new 4-4-0STs designed by Daniel Gooch – and so the Bogie Class found use on other parts of the Great Western network. In 1855 addiitonal locomotives were built for the GWR by R and W Hawthorn.

Naming

Build date	Retire date	Name	Builder	Named for	Other notes
1849	1873	Brigand	GWR	Brigand	After it was withdrawn, this locomotive was sold to Edwards & Suter but found its way back to Swindon Works in 1878 where it was broken up.
1849	1873	Corsair	GWR	Corsair	On withdrawal it was sold to the Cilely Colliery at Tonyrefail.
1855	1871	Euripides	Hawthorn	Euripides
1855	1872	Hesiod	Hawthorn	Hesiod
1854	1873	Homer	Hawthorn	Homer
1854	1880	Horace	Hawthorn	Horace
1854	1873	Juvenal	Hawthorn	Juvenal	The locomotive was sold to Dobson, Brown & Adams in 1874.
1855	1872	Lucan	Hawthorn	Lucan
1854	1872	Lucretius	Hawthorn	Lucretius
1854	1873	Ovid	Hawthorn	Ovid
1854	1873	Sappho	Hawthorn	Sappho	After withdrawal, Sappho was sold to the Staveley Coal and Iron Company.
1854	1872	Seneca	Hawthorn	Seneca
1855	1871	Statius	Hawthorn	Statius
1854	1873	Theocritus	Hawthorn	Theocritus	Theocritus was sold to the Staveley Coal and Iron Company in 1874.
1854	1873	Virgil	Hawthorn	Virgil