Rail Album - GWR 4575 Class 2-6-2T Steam Engines

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GWR 4575 Class 2-6-2T Locomotives

Designed by Charles B Collett

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GWR 4500 class 2-6-2T number 5542 at Toddington on the Gloucester & Warwickshire Railway 26th September 2007.


	The 4575 class 2-6-2Ts were designed by Charles Collett as a development of the earlier GWR 5100 class 2-6-2Ts by George Jackson Churchward. They were built by the GWR at their Swindon works from 1927 to 1929. The last examples were withdrawn in December 1964.

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GWR 4500 class 2-6-2T number 5542 at Toddington on the Gloucester & Warwickshire Railway 26th September 2007.


	Class: Builder: Driving Wheels: Cylinders: Boiler Pressure: Tractive Effort:	4575 Class GWR Swindon Works 4' 7.5" 17 x 24 ins 200 lbs / sq in 21,250 lbs

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Diagram of GWR 4500 class 2-6-2T.

GWR 4500 class 2-6-2T number 5572 at Didcot 3rd June 2001.