Great Western Railway 0-6-2T No. 6695
Swindon, Wiltshire, UK
Location: Swindon & Cricklade Railway
Status: Operational
Posted: Dec 5, 2024 @ 12:12:30 by Russell Newman
The ex GWR 5600 Class 0-6-2T No. 6695, is visiting the Great Central Railway for the first time for their Winter Steam Gala from the 23rd to 26th of January 2025, which will be Great Western themed.
Posted: Sep 4, 2024 @ 13:09:36 by Russell Newman
The ex GWR 66XX Class 0-6-2T No. 6695, will be visiting the Dean Forest Railway for for the first time for their Royal Forest of Steam Gala weekend on the 2nd and 3rd of November 2024.
Posted: Sep 2, 2024 @ 13:09:54 by Russell Newman
The ex GWR 66XX Class 0-6-2T No. 6695, is visiting the Mid Hants Railway (Watercress Line) as the third visiting locomotive for their Autumn Steam Gala from the 4th to 6th of October 2024.
Posted: Aug 3, 2024 @ 13:08:45 by Russell Newman
The ex GWR 66XX Class 0-6-2T No. 6695, is visiting the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre during the August Bank Holiday weekend and will star at their Auto Fest event on the 26th of August 2024, which during the event will play a big part of history as it will be hauling trains out of the original Quainton Road Station platform for the first time since 1969 as the Buckinghamshire Railway Centre now has use of it.
Posted: Feb 12, 2024 @ 10:02:27 by Russell Newman
The ex GWR 66XX Class 0-6-2T No. 6695, will visit the West Somerset Railway for their Spring Steam Spectacular, being held from the 3rd and 6th of May 2024.
Posted: Feb 7, 2023 @ 10:02:20 by Russell Newman
The ex GWR 66XX Class 0-6-2T No. 6695 is set to be launched into traffic at the Swindon & Cricklade Railway at a special event for the locomotive on the 18th March 2023.
Posted: Sep 17, 2022 @ 09:09:34 by Russell Newman
The ex GWR 66XX Class 0-6-2T No. 6695 has move under its own steam for the first time since 2015 and will now undergo testing and running trials before entering service at the Swindon & Cricklade Railway soon.
Posted: Aug 20, 2022 @ 10:08:34 by Russell Newman
The ex GWR 66XX Class 0-6-2T No. 6695 was steamed for the first time since 2015 on the 29th of July 2022. It is hoped that No. 6695 will enter service at the Swindon & Cricklade Railway in September 2022.
Posted: Dec 5, 2019 @ 10:12:13 by Russell Newman
It has been announced that GWR 66XX Class 0-6-2T No. 6695 will relocate to the Swindon & Cricklade Railway near Swindon in Wiltshire which will be the new home for the locomotive. No. 6695 is in her final stages of her overhaul and will enter service at the Swindon & Cricklade Railway in Spring 2020.
Posted: Jul 14, 2017 @ 13:07:50 by Russell Newman
6695 will now be based at the West Somerset Railway when it returns to service in 2019.
Posted: Nov 10, 2016 @ 13:11:58 by Russell Newman
No sorry 6695 will be back in service in 2018.
Posted: Nov 10, 2016 @ 13:11:06 by Russell Newman
6695 is curretly being overhauled at the West Somerset Railway and could be back in traffic in 2017.
Posted: Nov 26, 2007 @ 12:11:58 by Steve Frost
Moved to Williton on the West Somerset Railway for assessment before repairs to the axleboxes, and/or the axle journals or the horn faces.
Posted: Mar 11, 2006 @ 13:03:01 by Steve Frost

6695's overhaul is now complete and the loco has entered traffic in BR lined green livery.


Posted: Jan 25, 2004 @ 16:01:39 by Doug Bailey

Keith Morgan, the webmaster of the Swanage Railway website, supplied the following information with this photo:

This photograph from Andrew P.M. Wright shows the restoration in progress on GWR Tank No. 6695 at Herston Works on the Swanage Railway. The locomotive was built by Sir W.G. Armstrong Whitworth & Co. Ltd for the Great Western Railway in 1928 and moved into preservation in 1979. In all, 200 of these Class 5600 4ft 8.5in standard gauge 0-6-2T steam locomotives were constructed between 1924 and 1928. Numbers 5600 to 6650 were built by the Great Western Railway Swindon Works and the latter 50 locomotives - including 6695, works no 983 - were built by Sir W.G. Armstrong Whitworth & Co. Ltd.