GWR 1361 Class

The Great Western Railway 1361 Class were five small 0-6-0 saddle tank steam locomotives built at Swindon Works in 1910, mainly for shunting in docks and sidings where track curvature was too tight for larger engines. George Jackson Churchward is credited with the design, an update of the 1392 Class built in 1874 for the Cornwall Minerals Railway, although the junior draughtsman Harold Holcroft did the actual work. Their usual home was Plymouth Millbay, later Laira, from where they worked in Millbay Docks and on the Sutton Harbour branch, and an 11 ft wheelbase let them negotiate curves of 2 chains radius. D2000 diesel shunters took over their remaining jobs, and No. 1363 survives at the Didcot Railway Centre.