Locomotive Class
Class 2721
Class: Class 2721
Type: Steam
Designer: William Dean
Weight: 47 tons
Purpose: Shunting & Light Mixed Traffic
Information: Eighty members of the 2721 class were built between 1897 and 1901 at the Great Western Railway Locomotive Works in Swindon.
Details: These open cab tank locomotives were originally built as a saddle tank design. Subsequent rebuilds included provision of a Belpaire firebox necessitating replacement of the tanks in Pannier side tank fashion. This rebuilt design of the 2721 class is generally considered the predecessor of the more numerous and successful 57XX class, the second most numerous of steam locomotives in Britain.
The class was generally employed for branch-line passenger and mixed goods traffic through-out the Great Western Railway.
As 57XX construction kept pace with demand, withdrawal of the 2721 class commenced in 1945. By 1950 the class was extinct.
John Faulkner
Class 2721 Releases (16)
Class 2721 Images (16)
Class 2721 0-6-0PT Locomotive 2764
Class 2721 Pannier Tank Locomotive 2744
Class 2721 Pannier Tank Locomotive 2747
Class 2721 Pannier Tank Locomotive 2783
Class 2721 Pannier Tank Locomotive 2776
Class 2721 Pannier Tank Locomotive 2783
Class 2721 Pannier Tank Locomotive 2730
Class 2721 Pannier Tank Locomotive 2788
Class 2721 Pannier Tank Locomotive 2771
Class 2721 Pannier Tank Locomotive 2759
Class 2721 Pannier Tank Locomotive 2799
Class 2721 Pannier Tank Locomotive 2738
Class 2721 Pannier Tank Locomotive 2765
Class 2721 Pannier Tank Locomotive 2761
Class 2721 Pannier Tank Locomotive 2728
