2516 preserved as a static exhibit in the Swindon steam museum.

The backhead of preserved 2516.

The Great Western Railway (GWR) 2301 Class or Dean Goods Class is a class of steam locomotive. The Great Western Railway ( GWR) was a British railway company and a notable example of Civil engineering, linking London with the West A steam locomotive is a Locomotive powered by Steam. The term usually refers to its use on Railways but can also refer to a "road locomotive"

Overview

Wolverhampton railway works built 280 of these locomotives between 1883 and 1899 to a design of William Dean. Year 1883 ( MDCCCLXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common Year 1899 ( MDCCCXCIX) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a Common See Dixie Dean for the footballer in the United Kingdom whose real name was William Dean The class had the 0-6-0 wheel arrangement. The 2301 class broke with previous GWR tradition in having inside frames only and changes were made in the boiler design during the period that they were being built. The first twenty engines were originally domeless though all were provided with domed boilers in due course. They were numbered 2301-2580.

World War II

Some of these locomotives were requisitioned by the War Department during World War II for war service at home and abroad. The War Department was the United Kingdom government department responsible for the supply of equipment to the armed forces of the United Kingdom and the pursuance of military World War II, or the Second World War, (often abbreviated WWII) was a global military conflict which involved a majority of the world's nations, including A few worked on the Shropshire and Montgomeryshire Railway in the 1940s. Locomotives 1907-1941 1 Gazelle 0-4-2WT Dodman King's Lynn (preserved at the Colonel Stephens Railway Museum Tenterden Kent

Preservation

One locomotive, no. 2516 (built 1897), survived into preservation. Year 1897 ( MDCCCXCVII) was a Common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian Calendar (or a Common It is currently a static exhibit at Swindon Steam Railway Museum. Swindon 'Steam' Railway Museum is located at the site of the old Railway works in Swindon, England - Wiltshire 's 'railway town'