GWR 9400 Class

The GWR 9400 Class is a class of 0-6-0 pannier tank steam locomotives used for shunting and banking duties. The first ten were the last steam engines built by the Great Western Railway, and after nationalisation in 1948 a further 200 were built by private contractors for British Railways, numbered 9400 to 9499, 8400 to 8499 and 3400 to 3409. The class was a taper-boilered development of the 8750 subgroup of the 5700 Class and shared its boiler and cylinders with the 2251 Class. Number 3409, delivered by the Yorkshire Engine Company in October 1956, was the last steam locomotive built for British mainline use by private contractors. Two have been preserved, including number 9400 in the National Collection.