The 2301 Class or Dean Goods, where engines built for goods work on the Great Western Railway.
History[]
The Birth Of The Dean Goods[]
The Great Western Railway 2301 Class, is a British inside cylinders 0-6-0 class Steam locomotives, built to ensure goods trains. This series of 260 engines, manufactured between 1883 and 1899 by Swindon Works, had been designed by William Dean, and thus the engines received the nickname of Dean Goods.
Those engines were noticable for breaking some traditions in the design of the Great Western's engines. The engines have inside frames, and the boiler was fitted with a huge dome, in contrary to the first engines which would received the same features later on.
They were numbered 2301 to 2360 and 2380 to 2580. Due to the 2361 class built during 1885 and 1886, the numbers 2361 to 2379 were taken.
A Military History[]
In 1917, The Railway Operation Division (ROD) took 62 engines to the GWR and sent them to France. 46 engines returned to England during the early summer 1919. Sixteen other engines have been sent to Salonika, in Greece, at the beginning of 1918. Nine engines came back to their original country, while five other were written-off, and the two last engines, No 2308 and 2542 were sold to the Compagnie des chemins de Fer Ottoman d'Anatolie (CFAO).
Those only two examples of the 2301 Class in Turkey, became CFOA No 110 and 111, and were used near Izmir. No 111 was withdrawn from services on September 1929, and No 110 survived from the railways nationalization in 1935, becoming No 33 041 of the TCDD. 33 041 was withdrawn during the 1950s.