Talk:GWR 5100 Class

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Strange that the three small prarie classes are only mentioned in the last sentence of the article.8474tim (talk) 04:40, 14 August 2011 (UTC)[reply]

From near the end: "The name is completely inappropriate in Britain because there are no prairies" - well, no, but the Pacific is nowhere near Britain either and nobody complains about 4-6-2s! 86.143.52.65 (talk) 22:45, 25 September 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Anything known about these? They should be as the 31xx, but with 4'7½"; drivers and 17" cylinders.(See Holcroft, p44) They're significant as 2180 was the last loco built at Wolverhampton. Andy Dingley (talk) 23:12, 10 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

2161-80 were built in 1906-08 to Wolverhampton Lot N3, works nos. 775-794; as you state, they were the last locos built at Wpn. 2181-90 were built at Swindon 1909-10 to Lot 174, works nos. 2310-9. The thirty were renumbered 4500-4529 in December 1912, and subsequently became known as the 45xx class. They were indeed 4'7+1⁄2" 2-6-2T, but were significantly smaller than the 31xx (they had the Standard No. 5 boiler, 17x24" cyls and 4'7+1⁄2" wheels, instead of Standard No. 2, 18x30" and 5'8"). Essentially they were as the 44xx class but with driving wheels six inches larger. --Redrose64 (talk) 23:35, 10 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

The Large Prairie pages had much overlap and duplication so I've had a go at tidying them. Much like the Large prairie classes themselves really. Collett and his bean counter confusing exercises eh... I've restricted this page to the Churchward 3100/5100 class and I've taken almost everything about the other large Prairie classes off this page and put it on the various individual class pages that already existed. This page really ought to be renamed to something like GWR 3100/5100 class or GWR 3100 Class (Churchward), and the 8100 ought to be spun off to a separate page like all the others. 212.159.44.170 (talk) 17:39, 6 January 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I have just:

• Removed the GWR 2-6-2T link from the Template:GWR Locomotives navbar
• Changed the remaining article links from GWR 2-6-2T to GWR 5100 Class

No articles point to GWR 2-6-2T (Though Talk: pages and such have links). --Verbarson (talk) 21:09, 25 March 2021 (UTC)[reply]