GWR Route: The North Warwickshire Line

GWR Route: Stratford on Avon to Hatton

Stratford on Avon Station: gwrsa2628

An unidentified GWR 4-4-0 33xx Class locomotive, possibly 3379 or 3382, on a local passenger service to Worcester shortly after the Second World War. It was stated in the Great Western Journal that there were three 'Bulldog' Class locomotives still based at Worcester shed on such turns as the pilot at Evesham, the banker at Honeybourne, and on less demanding passenger and freight duties such as the one seen above. The Bulldog class were double-framed inside cylinder 4-4-0 steam locomotives used for passenger services on the Great Western Railway. A total of 121 Bulldogs were built new, with a further twenty rebuilt from Duke Class locomotives. Thirty Bulldogs were later rebuilt as Earl Class locomotives and renumbered 3265 (prototype conversion), 3200-3228. The class were subject to the 1912 renumbering of GWR 4-4-0 locomotives, which saw the Bulldog Class gathered together in the series 3300-3455, and other types renumbered out of that series. The 3300-3455 series had previously contained locomotives of Duke, Badminton, Atbara, City and a number of Bulldog class locomotives. The last of the Class to be withdrawn was No 3377 'Penzance' in January 1951.

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