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Specifications
Specifications
Configuration:;
• Whyte	2-4-0
Gauge	4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Driver dia.	6 ft 6 in (1.981 m)
Fuel type	Coal
Cylinders	two

Type and origin
Type and origin
Power type	Steam
Designer	Joseph Armstrong
Builder	GWR Swindon Works
Order number	Lot 32
Serial number	462–481
Build date	1873
Total produced	20

GWR 806 Class
GWR 806 Class
Power type
Type and origin
Power type	Steam
Designer	Joseph Armstrong
Builder	GWR Swindon Works
Order number	Lot 32
Serial number	462–481
Build date	1873
Total produced	20
Configuration:;
Specifications
Configuration:;
• Whyte	2-4-0
Gauge	4 ft 8+1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Driver dia.	6 ft 6 in (1.981 m)
Fuel type	Coal
Cylinders	two
Operators
Career
Operators	GWR
Retired	1904-1906

The 806 Class (20 locomotives, nos. 806–825) was Joseph Armstrong's last design of 2-4-0 mixed-traffic locomotives for the Great Western Railway, built at Swindon Works in 1873. A further 20 similar locomotives were added by Armstrong's successor William Dean in 1881-2; numbered 2201–2220, these had modern domeless boilers (see GWR 2201 Class). The class had a similar appearance to the 717 Class but had driving wheels 6 in (152 mm) larger.

Use

Most of the Armstrong locomotives worked in the Southern Division, and carried Sir Daniel Class boilers; only Nos. 806, 807, 810 and 821 were Northern Division engines, and these were in due course fitted with Wolverhampton boilers.

The four Northern engines were stationed at Wolverhampton and worked to Chester, then into Oxford over the Oxford, Worcester & Wolverhampton line. The other Armstrong engines worked on south Wales passenger services. The later, Dean engines were more widely distributed. In their last years they were relegated to milk and branch trains.

Withdrawal

The whole class was withdrawn between 1904 and 1926.^[1]

References

^ Tabor (1956), pp. D28–D35.

Allcock, N. J.; Davies, F. K.; le Fleming, H. M.; Maskelyne, J. N.; Reed, P. J. T.; Tabor, F. J. (1968) [1951]. White, D. E. (ed.). The Locomotives of the Great Western Railway, part one: Preliminary Survey. Kenilworth: RCTS.
Tabor, F.J. (February 1956). White, D.E. (ed.). The Locomotives of the Great Western Railway, part four: Six-wheeled Tender Engines. Kenilworth: RCTS.