GWR Shunters Trucks

by Russ Elliott

Pannier 2037 shunts at Worcester, 11 June 1947

Pannier 3653 shunts at the western end of the yards at Didcot. Photo by Ben Brooksbank, licensed under this Creative Commons Licence

GWR saddle tank 307 at Didcot, October 1927

Saddle tank 307, one of the small number of the 302 class, seen shunting alongside the Provender Store at Didcot in October 1927. It was fitted with a spark-arrester ('busby') for working the Didcot Ordnance Depot. The shunters truck (which seems to be 41890, of diagram M1), is marked 'Didcot Ordnance Depot'.

This page summarizes the GWR Shunters Truck diagrams, and provides a list of sample allocations. The table below is for GWR designs only, and does not include absorbed types. Sample allocations of GWR Shunters Trucks, with an emphasis on the post-grouping era, is given in this Microsoft Word file. Thanks to Steve Daly for providing the initial information for this listing.

For illustrations and details, refer to 'GWR Goods Wagons' by Atkins, Beard & Tourret. Note also that you can read about the use of Shunters Trucks on the very useful "Goods and Not So Goods" website.

Diagrams, build dates, lot numbers and running numbers

Dia

Build period

Tare weight
(T – c)

Lot numbers, running numbers, quantities and totals

1895 – 1904

5 – 17

L77 41879/8 (2); L82 41896 (1); L110 41854 – 95 (42); L121 41853 (1); L124 41852 (1); L125 41846 – 51 (6); L130 41835 – 44 (10); L180 41845 (1); L189 41834 (1); L229 43957 (1); L237 41832/3 (2); L239 41828-31 (4); L246 41821–7, 43958 – 64 (14); L256 41818 – 20 (3); L264 41817 (1); L284 41812 – 6 (5); L303 41809 – 11 (3); L315 41807/8 (2); L323 43970 – 2 (3); L325 41806 (1); L348 41804/5 (2); L357 41803 (1); L367 41802 (1); L372 41799 – 801 (3); L373 43973 (1); L393 41789 – 98 (10); L425 Severn & Wye Railway No.1 (GW & MR Jt) (1); L431 41773 – 88 (16); L435 14921 (1); L452 41771/2 (2); L473 41770 (1)
(total 143)

1905 – 1912

6 – 17

L495 43904 (1); L541 41764 – 9 (6); L547 41762/3 (2); L554 41761 (1); L562 41760 (1); L572 43905 (1); L598 41758/9 (2); L606 41753 – 7 (5); L609 41752 (1); L611 41743 – 51 (9); L626 41741/2 (2); L654 41740 (Instanter couplings) (1); L675 41739 (1)
(total 33)

1912 – 1913

6 – 12

L706 41738 (1); L710 41737 (1); L747 41736 (1); L752 41735 (1); L756 41731 – 4, 95000 (5); L766 43906 (1); L772 94999 (1)
(total 11)

1914 – 1938

6 – 12

L785 94984 – 98 (15); L798 (unnumbered for Chelsea Basin LNW Joint, into stock June 1951 and numbered 41767) (1); L807 94983 (1); L820 94977 – 82 (6); L822 94976 (1); L841 94970 – 5 (6); L854 94950 – 69 (20); L869 43975 (1); L880 94949 (1); L966 94947 (1); L1085 41046 – 53 (8); L1261 41054/5 (2); L1281 43960 (1); L1291 41091 – 5 (5); L1292 41096 – 100 (5)
(total 74)

1940 – BR

6 – 12

L1376 41087 – 90 (4); L1398 41086 (1); L1405 41085 (1); L1409 41101 (1); L1420 41136 – 54 (19); L1436 41157 – 60 (4); L1455 41161 – 8 (8); L1520 41845 (replacement) (1); L1535 41791 (replacement) (1); L1547 41883 (replacement) (1); L1559 41834 (replacement) (1); L1568 41817 (replacement) (1); post-nationalisation L1602 41851 (replacement) (1); L1608 41829 (replacement) (1); L1625 41823/99 (replacements) (2); L1635/BR2092 41767 (DB 997900) (replacement) (1)
(total 45 GWR and 3 BR)