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Frederick Hawksworth

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started to be fitted to the larger classes under his regime, and the works started to make much more use of welded construction. Another prominent new concept was a tender with slab sides, using welded construction, giving a much smoother appearance than the traditional design with stepped sides and
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Some of these locomotives were sent to Barry Scrapyard before preservation, these being Nos.6960, 6984, 6989, 6990, 7903, 7927 and 9466. However, several of his locos sent to this scrapyard were scrapped, including '9400's Nos.8419, 8473, 8475, 8479, 9436, 9438, 9439, 9443, 9445, 9449, 9459, 9462,
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According to one obituary, Hawksworth "was instrumental in getting the stationary locomotive testing plant at Swindon modernised and the development of testing practice which took place during the later 1930s was eventually accepted by British Railways as a nation Standard."
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Between 1946 and 1950, Hawksworth was involved in an experimental effort to introduce oil-firing in place of the coal that, post-war, was being exported to earn currency. It was halted when the increasing price of oil made it uneconomical.
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Hawksworth became CME following Collett's retirement at the age of 70 in 1941. He continued in the design tradition which he had been involved in throughout his career, but also made some important improvements. In particular increased
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42 years before. The chassis was similar to the modified Hall, but the boilers were to a new design, larger in diameter than the Std 1 (Hall) boiler but smaller in diameter and appreciably shorter than the
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Hawksworth had worked on GWR No.111 ‘The Great Bear’ and planned to build a Pacific type for the Great Western, but the design never came to existence. However, a model has been made for
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had somewhat stagnated under the later years of Collett, now in his seventies and whose reluctance to give up the CME's post resulted in Hawksworth's lateness in taking up this position.
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He was chairman of the Swindon magistrates from 1951 until 1959 and was made a freeman of the borough in 1960. He died in Swindon in July 1976. His ashes are buried in
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Examples of all the Hawksworth designs except the 'Counties' survive. The Great Western Society is in the process of building a new 'County', a replica of No.1014
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under the footplate but had a much larger boiler giving them more power and adhesive weight - and thus braking capacity. Only the first ten, built by the
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valve gear and no running plate, and made considerable use of welded construction. They were designed for easy maintenance by the trackside.
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and was pressed to 280psi, higher pressure than any previous GWR boiler. They used some of the names from the vanished
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of the GWR. He joined the company as an apprentice in 1898, aged 15, becoming an apprentice draughtsman in 1905 under
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Following Churchward's retirement in December 1921, Hawksworth was appointed Chief Draughtsman to his successor
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was the last and most powerful GWR 2-cylinder 4-6-0, the culmination of a line that began with the
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After the war there were four more new designs, mostly improvements of earlier types. The
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The last Hawksworth design was a very light conventional 0-6-0 pannier tank, the
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Locomotives of the Great Western Railway § Frederick Hawksworth (1941-1949)
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with increased superheat and very different cylinder and frame construction.
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Hawksworth remained Chief Mechanical Engineer through the formation of the
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His preserved locomotives are as follows: 'Modified Halls' No.6960
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boilers which Swindon had built for the Railway Executive during
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boiler. This boiler used tooling which was available from
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Experimental locomotives (1, 7, 9, 10, 13, 14, 16, 1490)
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List of GWR standard classes with two outside cylinders
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Index


Swindon Works
Great Western Railway
County Class
Modified Hall Class
9400 Class
Chief Mechanical Engineer
Great Western Railway
Great Britain
Swindon Works
George Jackson Churchward
"The Great Bear"
Charles Collett
King Class
William Stanier
London Midland and Scottish Railway
steam locomotive
Swindon Works
superheat

Modified Hall
Collett design

'County' Class
4-6-0
'Saints'
Castle
LMS
8F 2-8-0
World War II

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