GWR 3700 Class

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GWR 4-4-0 '3700' (City) Class, no. 3440 City of Truro

The Great Western Railway 3700 Class, or City Class, locomotives were a series of twenty 4-4-0 steam locomotives, designed for hauling express passenger trains. Ten of these locomotives were rebuilt from Atbara Class engines, the first (number 3405) being converted in September 1902 and the rest following in 1907-09. The other ten were built new during 1903 at the GWR's Swindon locomotive works, in the United Kingdom. The whole class was gradually replaced and scrapped in the period 1927–1931.

The most famous locomotive in the class, 3440 City of Truro (later renumbered 3717), is reputedly the first steam locomotive ever to travel in excess of 100mph. It is the only member of the class to survive in preservation, based at the National Railway Museum, York.

List of Locomotives

This class were subject to the 1912 renumbering of GWR 4-4-0 locomotives, which saw the Bulldog class gathered together in the series 3300-3455, and other types renumbered out of that series. The City Class took numbers 3700-3719, previously used by Bulldog locomotives.

Numbers		Name
First	Second (1912)	First	Second
3400	3700	Durban
3401	3701	Gibraltar
3402	3702	Halifax
3403	3703	Hobart
3404	3704	Lyttelton
3405	3705	Mauritius
3406	3706	Melbourne
3407	3707	Malta
3408	3708	Ophir	Killarney
3409	3709	Quebec
3433	3710	City of Bath
3434	3711	City of Birmingham
3435	3712	City of Bristol
3436	3713	City of Chester
3437	3714	City of Gloucester
3438	3715	City of Hereford
3439	3716	City of London
3440	3717	City of Truro
3441	3718	City of Winchester
3442	3719	City of Worcester	City of Exeter