The ten chunky Hawksworth 0-6-0 panier tanks were actually built in 1949, after the GWR had become the Western Region of BR. A less conventional GW design, they were best known for their role shunting express passenger stock at Paddington station. I never got to the London terminus in the age of steam so the only one I have seen is No. 1501 - in her preserved form on the Severn Valley Railway. John Dyer caught up with No. 1505, awaiting attention at Wolverhampton Stafford Road Works in 1962.
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