GWR 5205 Class

The Great Western Railway 5205 Class is a class of 2-8-0T steam locomotives, designed for short-haul coal trips from the mines to the ports of South Wales. They were based on the 4200 Class introduced in 1910 and shared its general design, but had outside steam pipes and 19 in diameter cylinders, which made them slightly more powerful. Seventy were built, numbered 5205 to 5274, and twenty of those were converted to the 7200 Class in 1934 and 1936. Twenty more of the same general design, the 5275 Class, were built from 1930 with a raised section of frame over the cylinders, and ten were added in 1940 as wartime coal traffic rose. They worked alongside the 4200s and also hauled iron ore and general freight, and a few banked trains on the Lickey Incline. Three examples have been preserved.