GWR 3232 Class
# GWR 3232 Class

The 3232 Class, 20 2-4-0 locomotives designed by William Dean and built at Swindon Works for the Great Western Railway in 1892–93, were the GWR's last completely new 2-4-0 design. Their number series was 3232–3251.

## Design

They resembled Dean's own 2201 Class and thus also Armstrong's 806 Class, though they had larger cylinders and a shorter wheelbase. All received Belpaire boilers in the course of the normal varied reboilerings.

Table of orders and numbers :

| Year | Quantity | Lot No. | Works No. | Locomotive Numbers | Notes |
| - | - | - | - | - | - |
| 1892 | 10 | 90 | 1341–1350 | 3232–3241 | |
| 1893 | 10 | 93 | 1381–1390 | 3242–3251 | |

## Use

At the start of their careers these engines replaced their sister 2201s on Swindon-Weymouth trains, on South Wales expresses, and on fast North-to-West trains. Others were in the London and Reading areas, where others also moved when 4-4-0s displaced them from express working. A few went later to Machynlleth and Oswestry, where the last survivor was withdrawn in 1930.

