| Dean Goods | |
|---|---|
| by Synchorus | |
| Price | 300 Robux |
| Gamepass | War Department Content Pack |
| Statistics | |
| Type | Freight |
| Top Speed | 72 km/h |
| Weight | 72 tons |
| Capacity | 340 tons |
| Length | 15,1 meters |
The GWR 2301 Class (more commonly known as the Dean Goods) was a class of British C (0-6-0) goods locomotives designed by William Dean for the Great Western Railway. 260 were built between 1883 and 1899 for goods work.
Not much is known about the class' time in the Netherlands, apart from 1 locomotive that was left there during World War II.
Liveries
The Dean Goods is available in ROD khaki and WD black.
Historical details
The GWR 2301 class
The class of 260 locomotives was constructed between 1883 - 1899 at Swindon Works. These locomotives broke the GWR's tradition of having only outside frame locomotives and were numbered 2301-2360 and 2381-2580. The intermediate numbers 2361-2380 were taken by the 2361 class, which looked alike but had outside frames.
In 1907, 20 Dean Goods (2491-2510) were rebuilt as 1'C'1 (2-6-2) tank engines, and reclassified as the GWR 3901 Class.
The Railway Operating Divisions (ROD) took 62 of these locomotives in 1917 and sent them to France to aid in the First World War. 46 of them returned to England in 1919, but the other 18 had been sent to Greece a year earlier. Nine of the engines sent to Greece would return to England in 1921, with five being written off and two being sold to the Ottoman railways and got renumbered to 110 and 111. Nr. 111 was scrapped in 1929, but 110 lasted into the 1950s.
WWII
At the outbreak of WWII, the War Department requisitioned 100 of these engines from the GWR, which had to hastily start using recently withdrawn locomotives again. The requisitioned engines were fitted with Westinghouse brakes and 10 were fitted with pannier tanks and condensing gear. All were painted black with their WD numbers painted on. In December 1940, the War Department requisitioned a further 8 Dean Goods. These WD Dean Goods were renumbered 93 - 200.
By the time Germany invaded France, 79 Dean Goods had already been shipped to the French mainland to assist the British Expeditionary Forces. Some of those were destroyed in the BEF's hasty retreat to Dunkirk; the remaining locomotives were used on the French railways by the German occupation forces. After the war, between 22 and 26 were sent to China under the authority of the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration. 30 were returned to the UK, but deemed unfit for service and scrapped. 2489 (WD 142) was in east Germany at the end of the war and kept around as BR 53 7607 and withdrawn in 1955.
Of the engines that remained in England, most of them worked at War Department and Ordnance depots around the country, though in 1943, 6 were shipped to Tunisia and then Italy.
Some of the Dean Goods held the unusual status of being shipped overseas in both World Wars. 32 of the 108 locomotives requisitioned for WWII had also been requisitioned in WWI and of those 32, 24 were also sent overseas.
Post-war
54 Dean Goods were passed to British Railways in 1948, mostly being used on Welsh branch lines due to their light axle loads. They were progressively replaced by new BR standard class 2 engines. 2538 was the last to be withdrawn in May of 1957. A different locomotive, 2516, survived into preservation and is currently a static display at the Swindon Steam Railway Museum.
The one in the Netherlands
In 1946, a Dean Goods was found in Roosendaal. This locomotive, carrying the WD livery and number 149, likely came to the Netherlands along with other locomotives from Germany. The British authorities showed no interest for the repatriation of this 19th century, non-operational locomotive, resulting in it still standing in a siding at Tilburg in 1949. 149 was returned to the War Department at a later date, but was not put into service again.
Trivia
- The R.O.D. livery features numbers on the tender, however the WD livery does not feature any numbers on the locomotive or tender, only a W.D. emblem.
- The cab view of the locomotive, when in reverse used to be out the cab window, but has now been changed to over the top of the tender at an unknown version.
- The R.O.D. livery does not feature the war time lamps, yet the W.D. version does feature the war time lamp lens, which was used to reduce glare of the lamps drawing unnecessary attention at night
- The Dean Goods has been available since version 0.2.5.
- The Dean Goods is the only locomotive to have been added to a gamepass after its initial release.
Gallery
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A Dean Goods engine ready to pull a train.
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A Dean Goods pulling a train
Doubleheading
Doubleheading compatibility
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