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GWR cabsides

The following list is a rough guide to which plates were cast in brass and which were iron, and should eventually become a useful resource for railwayana collectors, modellers, and historians.

BRASS

All named classes (1)
92 (15)
93 (15)
312 (15)
316 (15)
1140-1145
1150-1153
1361-1365
1400-1474
1500-1509
1600-1669
2021-2160 (3)
23xx-25xx (5)
2600-2680
2700-2799 (6)
2800-2883 (7)
3000-3024 (8)
31XX
3200-3219 (4)
3400-3409
4160-4179
4200-4285 (9)
4300-4399 (10)
4400-4410
4500-4554
4700
4800-4874 (2)
5300-5318 (16)
5331-5378 (16)
5700-5749
6300-6341
6650-6699
6700-6779
7420-7449 (14)
7700-7799
8400-8499
8700-8749
9000-9028 (17)
9400-9499
9662-9682

CAST IRON

59 (18)
76 (15)
360-399 (15)
711 (15)
1101-1106
1338
1366-1371
2200-2299
2884-3866
3025-3099 (8)
3600-3799
4100-4159 (10)
4286-4299 (9)
4555-4699
4701-4708
5100-5264 (11)
5319-5330
5379-5399 (16)
5400-5424
5500-5574
5600-5699
5750-5799
5800-5819
6100-6169
6342-6439
6600-6649
7200-7253
7300-7341
7400-7419 (14)
8100-8109
8750-8799
9300-9319
9600-9661
9700-9799

NOTES

(1) 7928 c/i exists, poss. duplicate or replacement.
Both sided 7926 are brass. Poss. last 2 or 3 of class c/i.
(2) Believed all destroyed.
(3) All old tanks e.g. 19xx believed brass.
(4) 0-6-0 2251 class.
(5) Dean goods.
(6) 0-6-0T.
(7) Those converted to oil burning received a c/i
plate when reconverted to coal and numbered back to 28xx.
(8) 3000-3099: Singles brass, R.O.D. c/i.
(10) Brass 4153 sold SRA 3/2002.
(11)Some of 5100-5149 may be brass. Does anyone know of a brass one?
(13)Material not known.
(14)Change at about 7420. 7417 is c/i. 7425 is brass.
(15)Numbers below 1000 very mixed.
316 brass dates from 6/50, was 440 from 1922-1950. NO "GWR" cast on front. SRA 8/92.
(16)Mixed due to some becoming RODs. Possibly:
5300-5318 brass
5331-5378 brass
5379-5399 c/i
(17)Dukedog.
(18)Callanish 11/95 cat.

List compiled by R.Cross.
Updated 14th March 2002.


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