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{{Short description|Preserved British 4-6-0 locomotive}}
{{Use British English|date=July 2015}}
{{DISPLAYTITLE:GWR 4900 Class 4936 ''Kinlet Hall''}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2023}}
{{Infobox locomotive
| designer=[[Charles Collett]]
| name=4936 ''Kinlet Hall''
| powertype=Steam
| whytetype = [[4-6-0]]
| uicclass = 2′C h2
| gauge = {{track gauge|56.5in|allk=on}}
| leadingdiameter = {{convert|3|ft|0|in|3|abbr=on}}
| driverdiameter = {{convert|6|ft|0|in|3|abbr=on}}
| minimumcurve = {{convert|8|chain|0}} normal, {{convert|7|chain|0}} slow
| length = {{convert|63|ft|0+1/4|in|m|2|abbr=on}} over [[buffer (rail transport)|buffers]]
| width = {{convert|8|ft|11+1/4|in|m|3|abbr=on}}
| height = {{convert|13|ft|3+1/4|in|m|3|abbr=on}}
| axleload = {{long ton|18|19}} ({{convert|18|LT|19|Lcwt|ST|1|abbr=on|disp=output only}})
| weightondrivers = {{long ton|57|0}} ({{convert|57|LT|0|Lcwt|ST|1|abbr=on|disp=output only}})
| locoweight = {{long ton|75|0}} ({{convert|75|LT|0|Lcwt|ST|1|abbr=on|disp=output only}})
| tenderweight = {{long ton|46|14}} ({{convert|46|LT|14|Lcwt|ST|1|abbr=on|disp=output only}})
| fueltype = [[Coal]]
| image=Toddington Station, 4936 "Kinlet Hall" - geograph.org.uk - 211684.jpg
| alt=A locomotive is seen from in front and from the right. The locomotive is mainly green but the smoke box (at the front) is black and the buffer beam is red with the number 4936 written in yellow letters. The chimney is trimmed with a copper ring and the valve cover is made of brass. Behind the locomotive is a green tender with the words "GREAT WESTERN" written in yellow. In the background to the left is a signal and an engine shed with a tank engine, and to the right is a car park behind a wooden rail.
| caption=4936 ''Kinlet Hall'' at Toddington Station in 2005
| operator=[[Vintage Trains]]
| officialname=
| operatorclass=[[GWR 4900 Class|4900 Hall Class]]
| builddate=June 1929
| fleetnumbers=
| currentowner=
| restoredate=2000
| disposition=Preserved
| retiredate=January 1964
}}

The [[Great Western Railway]] (GWR) [[steam locomotive]] No. '''4936 ''Kinlet Hall''''' is a preserved [[4-6-0]] [[GWR 4900 Class|Hall class]] locomotive

==Operation==
''Kinlet Hall'' was built in June 1929 at [[Swindon Works]], at a cost of £5,209, and was first allocated to Chester.<ref name=4936History>{{cite web
|title=4936 History
|url=http://www.kinlethall.co.uk/page3.html
|website=Kinlet Hall
|accessdate=5 April 2015
|url-status=dead
|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140624185737/http://kinlethall.co.uk/page3.html
|archivedate=24 June 2014
}}</ref><ref name=WarwickshireRailways>{{cite web
|title=Leamington Spa – GWR Locomotives: gwrls188
|url=http://www.warwickshirerailways.com/gwr/gwrls188.htm
|website=Warwickshire Railways
|accessdate=4 April 2015
|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080706094151/http://www.warwickshirerailways.com/gwr/gwrls188.htm
|archivedate=6 July 2008
|url-status=live}}</ref> The locomotive first worked with a 3500-gallon tender, but this was changed for a 4000-gallon tender in 1938.<ref name=WarwickshireRailways/>

In 1941, she ran into a bomb crater after a bombing raid at Plymouth, and was severely damaged.<ref name=LionelManual>{{cite web
|title=Lionel Shakespeare Express "Kinlet Hall" Passenger Set Owner's Manual
|url=http://www.lionel.com/media/servicedocuments/73-0084-250.pdf
|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150405105743/http://www.lionel.com/media/servicedocuments/73-0084-250.pdf
|archivedate=5 April 2015
|url-status=dead
|website=Lionel
|publisher=Lionel LLC
|accessdate=5 April 2015
|location=Chesterfield, Michigan
|page=2
|date=2008
}}</ref>

In 1955, the locomotive was fitted with manganese steel liners (rather than the usual bronze liners) to the main axle boxes.<ref name=GWAHallDetails/> This was unique among GWR locomotives.<ref name=Tyseley/>

[[File:Swindon station geograph-2468413-by-Ben-Brooksbank.jpg|thumb|left|alt=In a black and white photograph, a locomotive (seen from the front and right) is pulling a freight train, of which can be seen a number of open [[mineral wagon]]s, a closed wagon, and some tankers. The driver is standing at the edge of the cab and seems to be looking at the photographer. The number 4936 is shown on the smoke box at the front, and also the number 681 is written in chalk. Behind the train there is a two-storey brick building which includes a covered bridge over the railway. To the right of the locomotive is a second, smaller, tank engine. |''Kinlet Hall'' working a freight train at Swindon in 1958]]

At various times, the locomotive was allocated to [[Cardiff Canton TMD|Cardiff Canton]], [[Laira Traction Maintenance Depot|Laira]], [[Old Oak Common TMD|Old Oak Common]], Oswestry, Oxley, Oxford, Shrewsbury, Stafford Road, Swindon, Truro, and finally Cardiff East Dock.<ref name=WarwickshireRailways/><ref name=GWAHallDetails>{{cite web
|last1=Daniel
|first1=John
|title='Hall' class details, 4900 – 4949
|website=Great Western Archive
|accessdate=4 April 2015
|url=http://www.greatwestern.org.uk/m_in_hal_hall49a.htm
|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141217160105/http://www.greatwestern.org.uk/m_in_hal_hall49a.htm
|archivedate=17 December 2014
|url-status=live
|location=4936 Kinlet Hall
|date=April 2013}}</ref>

After completing more than {{convert|1000000|mi|spell=in}} in service, ''Kinlet Hall'' was withdrawn from service with [[British Railways]] in January 1964 and sold for [[scrap]] to [[Woodham Brothers]] [[scrapyard]] in [[Barry, South Wales]] in June later that year.<ref name=LionelManual/><ref name=GWAHallDetails/>
{{clear}}

==Preservation==
[[File:Matlock, Peak Rail ex-GWR 'Hall' 4-6-0 geograph-2907700-by-Ben-Brooksbank.jpg|thumb|right|alt=A locomotive is seen from the right and behind. The locomotive is mainly green but there are patches of pale red. On the side of the cab the number 4936 is written in yellow letters. The chimney and boiler dome are missing and the roof of the cabin is detached and is partially resting on the end of the tender. The tender is pale red. Most of the wheels of the locomotive are hidden by a flat wagon. To the right is the end of a tank wagon.|''Kinlet Hall'' under restoration in 1983]]

In 1981 it was bought by the Kinlet Hall Locomotive Company and moved to [[Peak Rail]] at [[Matlock, Derbyshire|Matlock]] where restoration work began. It was moved to the [[Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway]] in 1985, followed by the [[Llangollen Railway]] in 1992. In 1996 it was moved to [[Tyseley Locomotive Works]] for final restoration.<ref name=BurtonMail>{{cite news
|title=Loco about a steam engine
|url=http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/Loco-steam-engine/story-21469171-detail/story.html
|accessdate=4 April 2015
|work=Burton Mail
|url-status=live
|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150404135137/http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/Loco-steam-engine/story-21469171-detail/story.html
|archivedate=4 April 2015
|date=6 February 2002}}</ref>

The locomotive returned to operational condition in February 2000 and, following certification for mainline operation, it made several mainline trips to various parts of the country, sometimes in company with fellow Tyseley resident [[GWR 4900 Class 4965 Rood Ashton Hall|4965 ''Rood Ashton Hall'']].<ref name=Tyseley>{{cite web
|title=4936 Kinlet Hall
|url=http://www.tyseleylocoworks.co.uk/tlw/4936.htm
|website=Vintage Trains Ltd
|accessdate=4 April 2015
|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120424143325/http://www.tyseleylocoworks.co.uk/tlw/4936.htm
|archivedate=24 April 2012
|url-status=live
|date=24 July 2011}}</ref><ref name=BurtonMail/> The inaugural trip in question was [[Vintage Trains]]' ''SLS Special'' from Birmingham Snow Hill to Didcot on 17 June 2000. It visited the West Somerset Railway Jubilee gala 2001.<ref>{{cite web
|work=UK Steam Info
|title=News Archive 2001: The Silver Jubilee Steam Gala
|url=http://www.uksteam.info/wsr/news01.htm#219
|publisher=wrs.org.uk (unofficial West Somerset Railway website)
|accessdate=5 April 2015
|date=2 April 2001}}</ref> It has since visited several of its former homes in preservation, returning to Llangollen in June 2001, and the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway for much of the 2004/2005 operating season.

In 2006 it was fitted with the [[Train event recorder|On-Train Monitoring Recorder]] (OTMR) equipment at Tyseley, and a full retube was undertaken during the first part of 2007. Between October 2007 and March 2008 the engine visited the [[East Lancashire Railway]].<ref>{{cite web
|title=East Lancashire Railway visit 25th November 2007
|url=http://www.rcts.org.uk/branches/merseyside/ELRPhotoPage2.htm
|website=RCTS
|publisher=[[Railway Correspondence and Travel Society|The Railway Correspondence and Travel Society]]
|location=Cheltenham
|accessdate=5 April 2015
|date=2008
|archive-date=24 September 2015
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924085058/http://www.rcts.org.uk/branches/merseyside/ELRPhotoPage2.htm
|url-status=dead
}}</ref> The fitting of OTMR has allowed it to provide motive power for various mainline excursions, including [[Vintage Trains]]' ''Shakespeare Express'' and the ''[[Three Choirs Festival|Three Choirs]] Express'' excursion, [[double-heading]] with 5029 [[GWR 4073 Class 5029 Nunney Castle|''Nunney Castle'']].

After attending [[West Somerset Railway]] Spring Steam Gala 2009,<ref>{{cite news
|last1=Vaughan
|first1=Lloyd
|title=Steam gala success!
|url=http://www.somersetcountygazette.co.uk/news/4241752.Steam_gala_success_/
|accessdate=5 April 2015
|work=Somerset County Gazette
|publisher=Newsquest Media (Southern) Ltd
|date=27 March 2009}}</ref> visiting the [[Severn Valley Railway]] for summer 2009, and being displayed at the Tyseley Open Day on 25 October 2009, it was dismantled over the winter for a thorough overhaul, which was completed in around 20 months. The engine was on display at the Tyseley Open Days on 25–26 June 2011, and test running on the mainline commenced shortly afterwards. The locomotive visited the [[North Norfolk Railway]] in March 2012,<ref>{{cite web
|title=News Archive March – June 2012: North Norfolk Railway Spring Gala
|url=http://www.norfolkrailwaysociety.org.uk/archive-mar---june-2012.html
|website=Norfolk Railway Society
|accessdate=5 April 2015
|location=Norwich}}</ref> before visiting the [[Dartmouth Steam Railway]] between June and October 2012, hauling regular service trains on the line alongside the railway's own fleet of locomotives,<ref>{{cite web
|title=Dartmouth Steam Railway Heritage Festival 8-9/06/12
|url=http://www.totally-transport.co.uk/dsr-heritage-festival-8-90612.html
|website=Totally-transport.co.uk
|accessdate=5 April 2015
|date=June 2012}}</ref>
and also attended the [[Nene Valley Railway]] in September.<ref>{{cite news
|title=Full steam ahead for Nene Valley Railway's gala
|url=http://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/what-s-on/latest-leisure-lifestyle/full-steam-ahead-for-nene-valley-railway-s-gala-1-3027291
|accessdate=5 April 2015
|work=Peterborough Telegraph
|date=5 September 2011
|archive-date=24 September 2015
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150924123602/http://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/what-s-on/latest-leisure-lifestyle/full-steam-ahead-for-nene-valley-railway-s-gala-1-3027291
|url-status=dead
}}</ref> It then moved to the West Somerset Railway in October 2012 via the mainline. The locomotive spent 2013 hauling railtours on the mainline, before going on loan to the Severn Valley again,<ref>{{cite journal
|last1=Holloway
|first1=James
|title=Severn Valley Railway Steam Gala, 20th - 22nd Sep.
|url=http://www.intercityrailwaysociety.org/TRACKSissues/TRACKS1310.pdf
|journal=Tracks|date=October 2013
|volume=41
|issue=10
|page=23
|accessdate=5 April 2015
|publisher=Inter City Railway Society}}</ref>
from September 2013 to late March 2014.

After reaching an operational agreement it spent the 2014 season on the West Somerset Railway, including the Autumn Gala.<ref name=HeritageRailway>{{cite journal
|last1=Jones
|first1=Robin
|title=Taunton Shed Reborn
|journal=Heritage Railway
|date=23 October 2014
|issue=195
|location = Horncastle, Lincs, UK
|publisher = Mortons Media
|pages=73–4}}</ref>
It was then agreed that it would remain at the West Somerset Railway during 2015,<ref name=HeritageRailway/> although a planned visit to the [[North Yorkshire Moors Railway]] for that line's Spring Steam Gala in April didn't occur.<ref name=RailwayMagazine>{{cite journal
| editor-last = Brodrick
| editor-first = Nick
| date = April 2015
| title = Kinlet Hall to be star guest at North Yorkshire Moors gala
| journal = [[The Railway Magazine]]
| location = Horncastle, Lincs, UK
| publisher = Mortons Media
| volume = 161
| number = 1,369
| issn = 0033-8923
| page = 68
}}</ref> In April 2015 it was announced that Kinlet Hall Ltd and WSR plc had agreed a five-year residency period for the locomotive, to be based at [[Minehead]]. The agreement allowed for periods of both mainline running and visits to other preserved railways events.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.wsr.org.uk/latestnews.htm|title=GWR 4-6-0 no 4936 Kinlet Hall to be based on WSR for five years|publisher=wrs.org.uk (unofficial West Somerset Railway website)|date=10 April 2015}}</ref>

In summer 2016 it was announced that the firebox brick arch had been found to be broken beyond repair. This caused firebox and boiler damage, and as a result the mainline certificate was withdrawn. Faced with a period of limited running and no mainline income, director Jon Jones-Pratt agreed to buy out the other shareholders and pay for a full mainline certified overhaul. The engine ran on the WSR until autumn 2016, then moved back to [[Tyseley Locomotive Works]] for a complete overhaul.<ref>Railway Magazine, P12, July 2015</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.national-preservation.com/threads/4936-kinlet-hall-update.762979/|title = 4936 – Kinlet Hall Update}}</ref>

==Models==

In 2005 Bachmann produced an [[OO gauge]] model of ''Kinlet Hall'' in GWR green with crest.<ref>{{cite web
|title=Bachmann 32-003 DCC ready GWR Hall Class Kinlet Hall
|url=http://samicarken.com/shop/bachmann-32-003-dcc-ready-gwr-hall-class-kinlet-hall/
|website=Samicarken
|accessdate=5 April 2015
|url-status=dead
|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150410185148/http://samicarken.com/shop/bachmann-32-003-dcc-ready-gwr-hall-class-kinlet-hall/
|archivedate=10 April 2015
}}</ref><ref>{{cite web
|last1=Whalley
|first1=Tom
|title=Bachmann Branchline Past and Present Models Rev. 5
|page=14
|url=http://www.bachmann.co.uk/pdfs/branchline_products_by_item_no_rev11.pdf
|website=World of Model Railways
|publisher=Bachmann Europe plc
|accessdate = 23 June 2014
|date=2013}}</ref>

In 2008 [[Lionel, LLC]] produced an [[O gauge]] train set (''Lionel Shakespeare Express "Kinlet Hall"'' Passenger Set) comprising ''Kinlet Hall'' and three GWR coaches.<ref name=LionelCatalogue>{{cite web
|title=Shakespeare Express "Kinlet Hall" Passenger Set
|url=http://www.lionel.com/Products/Finder/ProductDetail.cfm?ProductNumber=6-30084&expandBranch=37&Keywords=&CategoryID=37&RailLineID=&CatalogId=
|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150405112731/http://www.lionel.com/Products/Finder/ProductDetail.cfm?ProductNumber=6-30084&expandBranch=37&Keywords=&CategoryID=37&RailLineID=&CatalogId=
|archivedate=5 April 2015
|url-status=live
|website=Lionel
|publisher=Lionel LLC
|accessdate=5 April 2015
|location=Chesterfield, Michigan}}</ref>

==References==
{{reflist}}

==External links==
{{Commons category|GWR 4900 Class 4936 Kinlet Hall}}
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20130510123305/http://www.kinlethall.co.uk/index.html Kinlet Hall website]
*[http://www.greatwestern.org.uk/m_in_hal.htm Hall class introduction] (Great Western Archive)
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20141109193240/http://eorailway.co.uk/departments/rolling-stock/steam-locomotives/ GWR Hall 4900 Class, Pitchford Hall No. 4953] (includes description of Hall class and duties)
{{GWR Hall Class}}

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[[Category:4-6-0 locomotives]]
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