B&FRHT (Registered no: 11668316) Garth Celyn, Penrhyndeudraeth, Wales, LL48 6RF

B&FRHT

22XX

The Collett Goods s is a class of small Great Western Railway Locomotives intended as a replacement for the earlier Dean Goods locomotives and used for medium powered freight.


2227		A Great Western engine & coaches still wearing Great Western colours in the early 1950’s. Collett 22XX class 3203 and its two coach train stand ready to depart Blaenau Festiniog for Bala, boiler pressure on the red line as it blows off.

Locomotive NumberBuild Date (Batch)Location BuiltNotes
2227
3203
GWR 22XX 2259 stands at Bala’s down platform having arrived with a short goods train from Blaenau made up of two wooden bodied wagons and a Toad brake van
1950 at Bala as Ex GWR 22XX 0-6-0 3203 arrives still sporting its clean looking GWR livery along with the two GWR corridor coaches that make up its train from Blaenau Festiniog
The crew of a down train at Trawsfynydd pose for the photographer as 2227 fitted with a GWR lettered ROD tender pauses on its way to Blaenau Festiniog on 20th July 1948. Seen under the road bridge some stock can be seen stabled in the Military Camp station headshunt. This engine could possibly have acquired its tender for seeing active service overseas or may have received it on a works visit