GSRoE Class 272

The Great Southern Railway of Etorea class 272 was a class of sixty 0-6-0 tender locomotives constructed between 1886 and 1899 for goods services on the GSRoE main line.
  The class were meant to update the aging fleet of 0-6-0 goods locomotive without the expence of a whole new class of locomotive. This meant that, starting in 1886, a mass rebuilding of locomotives took place with most having few original parts carried over, with their tenders being among the few original parts incorporated. The class performed well until the introduction of the 359 class displaced them only a few years after their construction. Most retained active service in the main fleet before being numbered in the duplicate list with a 0 added to the front of their numbers. By the 1900s, 2-6-0s and 0-6-2Ts had taken over on goods services so the sale of locomotives began in 1908. This only stopped due to the First World War when seventeen of the best operational locomotives were requisitioned by the Railway Operating Division with ten more being loaned to the Eastern Counties Railway. By 1915 thirty eight were in service elsewhere, ten had been sold for scrap, two had been broken up for spares and the remaining ten were still in use by the GSRoE.
  In 1919, the Etorean National Railways inherited thirty seven locomotives with them all being withdrawn and sold or scrapped by 1932. Few locomotives received an ENR number with many of the ones that did rarely having them applied.

  Rebuilds (Listed By Class):

Designer:	Original Class:	Rebuild Date:	New Numbers:
Albert Ives	GSRoE Class 38	1887 - 1891	272 - 276
Albert Ives	GSRoE 79 Class	1888 - 1892	285 - 301
Foster, Gardener & Co.	GSRoE Dragoon Class	1889 - 1897	277 - 284
Oswald Fletcher	GSRoE Class 104	1890 - 1891	302 - 314
Oswald Fletcher		1895 - 1899	315 - 327
Robert Mainwaring		1894 - 1899	328 - 331

Locomotive Sales (Pre - 1919):

Number:	Original Class:	Withdrawal Date:	Buyer:
275	38 Class
277	Dragoon Class
284	Dragoon Class
285	79 Class	1908	Queensbury Works Supply Co. (Locomotive Repairer / Dealer)
293	79 Class	1908	Queensbury Works Supply Co. (Locomotive Repairer / Dealer)
298	79 Class
300	79 Class	1911	Midnight Oil Company
215
317
326		1913	Queensbury Works Supply Co. (Locomotive Repairer / Dealer)
328

Locomotive Sales (Post - 1919):

Number:	Original Class:	Withdrawal Date:	Buyer:
284	Dragoon Class	1919
302	104 Class	1919
310	104 Class	1920
272	38 Class	1920	West Carnclare Railway
279	Dragoon Class	1921	West Carnclare Railway
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