Great Western Railway 2-8-0 No. 2807
Toddington, Gloucestershire, UK 		Location: Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway
Status: Operational
Posted: Nov 30, 2025 @ 13:11:30 by Russell Newman
The ex GWR 2800 Class 2-8-0 No. 2807, is currently visiting the South Devon Railway for the Christmas season working their Polar Express trains.
Posted: Feb 11, 2025 @ 11:02:15 by Russell Newman
The ex GWR 2800 Class 2-8-0 No. 2807, will be visiting the West Somerset Railway for their Spring Steam Spectacular event from the 2nd to 5th of May 2025, as part of the Railway 200 celebrations in 2025.
Posted: Dec 19, 2024 @ 10:12:13 by Russell Newman
The ex GWR 2800 Class 2-8-0 No. 2807, will visit the Battlefield Line as their forth visiting steam locomotive for their Winter Warmer Gala weekend being held in the New Year on the 11th and 12th January 2025.
Posted: Dec 5, 2024 @ 12:12:19 by Russell Newman
After finnishing with the Polar Express over Christmas and before returning home to the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway, ex GWR 2800 Class 2-8-0 No. 2807, will take part in the South Devon Railway’s Winter Steam Gala from the 3rd to 5th of January 2025.
Posted: Nov 12, 2024 @ 12:11:18 by Russell Newman
The ex GWR 2800 Class 2-8-0 No. 2807, is visiting the South Devon Railway over the winter, where it will be hauling their Polar Express Trains over the Christmas season. No. 2807 will remain at the South Devon Railway until the New Year, when it will return home to the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway in early January 2025.
Posted: Oct 24, 2024 @ 10:10:34 by Russell Newman
The ex GWR 2800 Class 2-8-0 No. 2807, has been repainted into GWR Wartime Black livery for the first time in preservation, and is set to make its debut in its new livery during the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway’s Autumn Showcase Mixed Traffic Gala Weekend on the 26th and 27th of October 2024.
Posted: Apr 4, 2024 @ 13:04:24 by Russell Newman
The visit of ex GWR 2800 Class 2-8-0 No. 2807, to the West Somerset Railway, for their Spring Steam Spectacular has had to be cancelled due to over running work being carried out on the locomotive. But despite this, it is hoped that No. 2807 will make a rearranged visit the West Somerset Railway in the future.
Posted: Feb 13, 2024 @ 10:02:30 by Russell Newman
The oldest ex GWR 2800 Class 2-8-0 No. 2807, will be visiting the West Somerset Railway as their fourth visiting locomotive for their Spring Steam Spectacular, being held from the 3rd and 6th of May 2024.
Posted: Oct 24, 2023 @ 10:10:45 by Russell Newman
The oldest ex GWR 2800 Class 2-8-0 No. 2807 is set to enter service again at the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway this Sunday during their Autumn Showcase Mixed Traffic Gala on the 29th of October 2023.
Posted: Oct 23, 2023 @ 14:10:52 by Russell Newman
The oldest ex GWR 2800 Class 2-8-0 No. 2807 underwent a successful loaded test run on the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway and is now ready to enter service at the railway soon.
Posted: Sep 22, 2023 @ 14:09:30 by Russell Newman
The overhaul on the oldest ex GWR 2800 Class 2-8-0 No. 2807 has now been completed as the locomotive was steamed and moved for the first time since 2020, and is now operational again. With some final painting and few jobs to be carried out, No. 2807 will begin testing and running in trials before entering service at the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway over the winter.
Posted: Jul 5, 2023 @ 15:07:05 by Russell Newman
The oldest ex GWR 2800 Class 2-8-0 No. 2807 is in the final stages of its overhaul as its newly overhauled boiler and firebox have been placed back onto the mainframes of the locomotive following a successful steam test. Final work is being done on No. 2807 which will start being tested before entering service at the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway later in the summer.
Posted: Nov 12, 2022 @ 10:11:53 by Russell Newman
The ex GWR 2800 Class 2-8-0 No. 2807 has been at Riley & Son Engineering Ltd. at Heywood in Lancashire, where the locomotive was reunited with its newly overhauled boiler and firebox. Which work has seen a brand new front section of the boiler barrel fitted along with a brand new smokebox and front tube plate. No. 2807 is now back at the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway for its final stages of its overhaul and is expected back into service again from Easter 2023.
Posted: Jan 3, 2020 @ 10:01:25 by Russell Newman
GWR 2800 Class 2-8-0 No. 2807 has now been withdrawn from service for its 10 year overhaul having worked its final trains at the Gloucestershire Warwickshire Railway on New Years day. Its boiler is to be sent to Riley & Sons Engineering Ltd at Heywood in Lancashire for overhaul work there.
Posted: Apr 18, 2013 @ 14:04:11 by Steve Frost
One of George Jackson Churchward's classic designs for the Great Western. Using the GWR's standardisation of parts, the locos shared things like cylinder dimensions, boiler and wheel diameters with other classes.

But there was more to it than that. To say that this was a successful locomotive class seems to understate the point. The first of the UK's 2-8-0s in 1903 and still one of the best in 1948 when tested against more recent locomotives. Indeed, many of them remained in service right up to the end of Western Region steam in 1965.

You can't say better than that.

Posted: Sep 13, 2003 @ 06:09:20 by Doug Bailey

The contributor of this locomotive's black and white album photograph wrote:

2807 at Stratford Upon Avon Shed in 1960.  This locomotive is currently being restored at Toddington, Gloucestershire and we hope to steam it in 2005, on the 100th anniversary of its construction.  It is the oldest GWR steam locomotive in private ownership.
Driving wheel diameters are 4 ft 8 inches.