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{{hatnote|This article is about the ex-ROD 2-8-0s, for the Dean Single colloquially known as the 3000 class see [[GWR 3031 Class]]}}
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{{Use British English|date=January 2018}}
{{Infobox locomotive
| powertype = Steam
| name = GWR 3000 Class
| image = Seer Green geograph-2521468-by-Ben-Brooksbank.jpg
| caption = 3043 at Seer Green in 1950
| builddate = 1917-1918 (built for the ROD) 1919-1925 (purchased)
| totalproduction = 100
| whytetype = [[2-8-0]]
| gauge = {{track gauge|uksg|allk=on}}
| leadingdiameter = {{convert|3|ft|6|in|m|3|abbr=on}}
| driverdiameter = {{convert|4|ft|8|in|m|3|abbr=on}}
| length = {{convert|61|ft|9|in|m|2|abbr=on}}
| width = {{convert|8|ft|9+1/2|in|m|3|abbr=on}}
| height = {{convert|13|ft|5+1/4|in|m|3|abbr=on}}
| axleload = {{long ton|17|2}}<br>({{convert|17|LT|2|Lcwt|t ST|1|abbr=on|disp=output only}}) full
| weightondrivers = {{long ton|66|8}}<br>({{convert|66|LT|8|Lcwt|t ST|1|abbr=on|disp=output only}}) full
| locoweight = {{long ton|73|11}}<br>({{convert|73|LT|11|Lcwt|t ST|1|abbr=on|disp=output only}}) full
| fueltype = [[Coal]]
| fuelcap =
| watercap = {{convert|4000|impgal|abbr=on}}
| boilerpressure = {{convert|185|lbf/in2|MPa|abbr=on}}
| firearea = {{convert|26.07|sqft|m2|abbr=on}}
| tubearea = {{convert|1591.38|sqft|m2|abbr=on}}
| fireboxarea = {{convert|153.19|sqft|m2|abbr=on}}
| superheatertype = 6-element
| superheaterarea = 6-element: {{convert|225.12|sqft|m2|abbr=on}}
| cylindercount = Two, outside
| cylindersize = {{convert|21|x|26|in|mm|0|abbr=on}}
| tractiveeffort = {{convert|32197|lbf|kN|abbr=on}}
| operator = [[Great Western Railway|GWR]] » [[British Railways|BR]]
| fleetnumbers = 3000-3099, 6000-6003
| withdrawndate = 1929-1958
| disposition = All [[Scrap]]ped
}}

The [[Great Western Railway]] (GWR) '''3000 Class''' was a class of [[2-8-0]] [[steam locomotive]] consisting of the ex-[[Railway Operating Division]] [[ROD 2-8-0]]. These were built by [[North British Locomotive Co.]] between 1917 and 1918. No examples have been preserved.

==Initial loans and purchase==
The GWR borrowed several ROD 2-8-0s during the [[First World War]] but these were returned to the [[government]] after the end of the war. In 1919, GWR bought 20 virtually new RODs, and numbered them 3000–19. A further 84 were hired in July 1919, and were numbered 3020-99 and 6000–3, but these were returned in October 1922. In 1925, the GWR bought 80 engines (including some previously hired) and numbered them 3020–99.

==Overhaul and sorting==
In 1926/7 the GWR sorted the eighty RODs bought in 1925 which had been given nos. 3020–99 into two batches, which involved considerable renumbering. The worst fifty were <q>touched up and returned to traffic with steel fireboxes and painted the original R.O.D. black</q> and renumbered 3050–99;{{sfn|Davies|Firth|Lucking|Thomas|1966|p=K269}} they were run until they failed, when they were withdrawn – after July 1930, only one remained, being withdrawn the following year.{{sfn|Davies|Firth|Lucking|Thomas|1966|p=K270}} The best thirty were <q>thoroughly overhauled, fitted with copper fireboxes and painted G.W. standard green</q>,{{sfn|Davies|Firth|Lucking|Thomas|1966|p=K269}} they also acquired [[Swindon Works|Swindon]] fittings, including [[top feed]] and brass [[safety valve]] casing, and were renumbered 3020–49. Nos. 3000–19 (bought 1919) were also overhauled similarly to the new nos. 3020–49 between 1927 and 1929, but were not further renumbered.{{sfn|Davies|Firth|Lucking|Thomas|1966|p=K270}} The leading dimensions of the GWR 3000 Class were the same as the [[GCR Class 8K]] except that the GWR increased the boiler pressure to {{convert|185|psi|kPa|abbr=on}} which increased the tractive effort from {{convert|31,327|lbf|abbr=on}} to {{convert|32,197|lbf|abbr=on}}.

==World War II==
The GWR borrowed 30 [[LNER Class O4|Class O4]] from the [[London and North Eastern Railway|LNER]] in November 1940, of which two were returned the following April; ten were returned in July–August 1942 and the rest in January–February 1943. On the GWR, they retained their LNER numbers, which were scattered between 5391 and 6639.{{sfn|Boddy|Brown|Neve|Yeadon|1983|p=62}} Three of these had been hired by the GWR between 1919 and 1922:

{| class=wikitable
|+ Locomotives hired by and subsequently loaned to the GWR{{sfn|Davies|Firth|Lucking|Thomas|1966|p=K273 }}{{sfn|Boddy|Brown|Neve|Yeadon|1983|pp=62, 81–3, 194–5}}
|-
! ROD number || First hire || GWR number || Returned to ROD || LNER number || Loaned to GWR || Returned to LNER
|-
| 1685 || December 1919 || 3075 || October 1922 || 6321 || November 1940 || January 1943
|-
| 1608 || December 1919 || 3082 || October 1922 || 6365 || November 1940 || January 1943
|-
| 1827 || March 1920 || 3095 || October 1922 || 6258 || November 1940 || July 1942
|}

==British Railways==
[[File:Oxford Locomotive Depot ex-GWR 'ROD' geograph-2927600-by-Ben-Brooksbank.jpg|thumb|No. 3040 at Oxford Locomotive Depot 22 February 1953]]
Forty-six of the RODs entered [[British Rail]]ways service in 1948. Five locomotives (numbers 3011, 3015, 3024, 3036 and 3041) were still in service in 1957<ref>{{cite book| publisher=Ian Allan| title=ABC of British Railways Locomotives| edition=winter 1957/8 |pages=20, 28 }}</ref> and of these, nos. 3036/41 were withdrawn in March 1958, the others in October the same year.{{sfn|Davies|Firth|Lucking|Thomas|1966|pp=K271, K274 }} None of the GWR RODs has survived to preservation.

==Modelling==
In November 2011, [[Bachmann Branchline|Bachmann]] released a [[OO gauge]] ready to run model of the 3000 class. This complements kits in various gauges.

==References==
{{Reflist}}
*{{cite book |last1=Boddy |first1=M.G. |last2=Brown |first2=W.A. |last3=Neve |first3=E. |last4=Yeadon |first4=W.B. |authorlink4=Willie Yeadon |editor-last=Fry |editor-first=E.V. |title=Locomotives of the L.N.E.R., part 6B: Tender Engines - Classes O1 to P2 |date=November 1983 |publisher=[[Railway Correspondence and Travel Society|RCTS]] |location=Kenilworth |isbn=0-901115-54-1 }}
*{{cite book |last1=Davies |first1=F.K. |last2=Firth |first2=J.M. |last3=Lucking |first3=J.H. |last4=Thomas |first4=R.E. |last5=Allcock |first5=N.J. |last6=Sterndale |first6=A.C. |last7=Barrie |first7=D.S.M. |last8=Reed |first8=P.J.T. |last9=Mountford |first9=E.R. |editor-last=White |editor-first=D.E. |title=The Locomotives of the Great Western Railway, part ten: Absorbed Engines, 1922-1947 |date=April 1966 |publisher=[[Railway Correspondence and Travel Society|RCTS]] |isbn=0-901115-20-7 }}
* {{cite book |last1=Whitehurst |first1=Brian |title=Great Western engines, names, numbers, types, classes: 1940 to preservation. |date=1973 |publisher=Oxford Pub. Co |location=Oxford |isbn=0902888218}}

== External links ==
{{Commons category|GWR 3000 Class}}
*[http://www.railuk.info/steam/getsteamclass.php?item=ROD Class ROD Details] at ''Rail UK''

{{GWR Locomotives}}

[[Category:2-8-0 locomotives]]
[[Category:1′D h2 locomotives]]
[[Category:Great Western Railway locomotives|3000]]
[[Category:Scrapped locomotives]]
[[Category:Standard-gauge steam locomotives of Great Britain]]
[[Category:Railway locomotives introduced in 1919]]
[[Category:Freight locomotives]]
[[Category:NBL locomotives]]

GWR 3000 Class - Revision history

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