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Bristol and Exeter Railway 4-2-4T locomotives

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near Bristol on 27 July 1876 and was withdrawn from service. While the poor condition of the track was a contributing factor, it was decided to rebuild the remaining three express 4-2-4Ts to more conventional
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express passenger locomotives with 7-foot-6-inch (2.29 m) driving wheels and were given wheels of this same size, rather than the 9-foot-diameter (2.7 m) wheels of their 4-2-4T predecessors.
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The three types are distinguished by the size of driving wheel; the early 9-foot-diameter (2.7 m) wheels being replaced by smaller ones on later designs.
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Four of the 9-foot locomotives were replaced by these "renewals", built in the Bristol and Exeter Railway workshops at
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The large wheels gave these locomotives a good turn of speed, 81.8 mph being reported on one train descending
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workshops in 1859. It had slightly larger 17-inch-diameter (430 mm) cylinders and a 25-foot-
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steam locomotives built to three different designs. The first entered service in 1853. The
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No. 29 was the first locomotive built at the Bristol and Exeter Railway's new
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These two locomotives were built as replacements for more conventional
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on 1 January 1876, and the last of the 4-2-4Ts was withdrawn in 1885.
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8ft 10in Pearson 4-2-4T no. 2002 (previously no. 40) at Exeter in 1876
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16.5 in × 24 in (419 mm × 610 mm) or
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The Locomotives of the Great Western Railway, Part 2: Broad Gauge
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Arman, Brian (2005). "BER 4-2-4 Pearson Tank Drawings part 2".
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The first of Pearson's 4-2-4Ts were eight locomotives built by
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16.5 in × 24 in (419 mm × 610 mm)
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18 in × 24 in (457 mm × 610 mm)
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17 in × 24 in (432 mm × 610 mm)
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No. 39, recently renumbered as GWR 2001, derailed at
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broad gauge
4-2-4T
Bristol and Exeter Railway
amalgamated
Great Western Railway
James Pearson
flangeless
bogies

James Pearson
Rothwell and Company
Whyte
Gauge
Leading dia.
Driver
Trailing dia.
Wheelbase
Cylinder size
Rothwell and Company
Wellington
Somerset
James Pearson

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