GWR 1366 Class

The Great Western Railway 1366 Class was a class of six 0-6-0 pannier tank steam locomotives built in 1934. Developed from the saddle tank 1361 Class, they had pannier tanks and Belpaire fireboxes and were designed to replace the 1392 Class. Their light weight and short wheelbase suited dockside branches and sharply curved lines, and with the 1500 Class they were one of only two pannier tank designs the GWR built with outside cylinders. By 1948 three of the six had been reallocated to Weymouth for dock work, and in the early 1960s three others went to Wadebridge to replace the Beattie Well Tanks on the Wenford Bridge line, operating in Cornwall for just two years before their withdrawal in 1964. No. 1369 survives on the South Devon Railway.