ENR GW Class

The Etorean National Railway GW Class were a class of Seventeen 0-6-0 tender locomotives built by the Great Western Railway in England between 1866 and 1899. The class was formed of two different classes of Great Western locomotive, those being the Armstrong Goods and the Dean Goods with the former making up the majority of the GW Class.
  Most of the class were kept at Colby MPD, having taken over from the GN&SR 176 Class locomotives that had been lost during the war. The locomotives were purchased from the War Department (UK) with the Great Western offering two of each class as a source of spares due to their age and the fact they were superceded by 2-6-0s and 4-6-0s. They were numbered as ENR №s 50000 - 50016 as they were engines that were previously used by the military. The engines were mostly found in eastern Etorea due to its relatively flat terrain (still not as flat as East Anglia). The engines were used until the 40s in mainline service before being relegated to shunting and local trains.
  The class was almost extinct by the 1960s with one, ENR № 50008, an ex - GWR Armstrong Goods was preserved. Two Dean Goods locomotives are also preserved, one in the UK and a second in Etorea. The Etorean locomotive was never part of the ENR GW Class.
(Ex - GWR Armstrong Goods, ENR №50009 on a through goods at Raemouth, 1949)
Creation Date
1866 - 1899
Decommission Date
1934 - 1967
Destruction Date
1937 - 1967
Owning Organization
Rarity
Seventeen Purchased, One Preserved

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