PLW GWR 5700 -8750 Class

Pancakes Locomotive Works Present:

The Great Western Railway 5700 / 8750 Class 0-6-0 Panniers.

This Mod adds the 5700 Class Pannier Tank Engines to Railroader, in as built and 1930s modified conditions. The Locomotive boasts a modest 22,515lbs of Tractive Effort. A can do locomotive for just about anything and everything you could ask of it.

Locomotive Features:

(for the first time ever) Mostly British Design

A combined 10 preset liveries (five each)

22,515lbs Of Tractive Effort

1400 US Gallons of Water

7. 4 Tons of Coal

Setup for British Headcodes (to be made available in a later update)

Brief History:

The GWR 5700 Class (or 57xx class) is a class of 0-6-0PT steam locomotive built by the Great Western Railway (GWR) and British Railways (BR) between 1929 and 1950. With 863 built, they were the most prolific class of the GWR, and one of the most numerous classes of British steam locomotive. Although officially designated by GWR as "light goods and shunting engines", they were also used for passenger working on branch, suburban, and shorter mainline journeys. They were distributed across most of the GWR network and, after nationalisation of the railways in 1948, across the Western Region of British Railways, and also other regions. Although not as large as the GWR Castles and Kings, they became just as much of an icon of the GWR, due to their iconic design and quantity. As a result of the 1955 Modernisation Plan, the 5700 Class was withdrawn from BR service between 1956 and 1966. Nineteen withdrawn locomotives were sold to the London Transport Executive and industry, of which ten were later preserved, along with six that were retrieved from scrapyards.

George Jackson Churchward's period as Chief Mechanical Engineer from 1901 to 1921 is well known for significant improvements in locomotive design and manufacture, and the development of standard designs. However, the scope of the standard designs did not include the 0-6-0 tank locomotive, and the GWR did not introduce any new 0-6-0 tank designs from 1897 to 1928 (with exception of the 1361 Class of five 0-6-0 saddle tanks in 1910).

However, pannier tanks and Belpaire fireboxes became the standard for the rebuilding of various 0-6-0 tank locomotives (projected in 1902 and getting fully underway by 1910). The rebuilding program also included a number of other changes including:

- improved cab designs, eventually becoming fully enclosed

- superheating, which by 1929, had been found to have little benefit on shunting engines

- adaptation for working with autocoaches for push–pull trains (auto-working)

- increasing boiler pressures, for example, the various rebuilds of the GWR 2721 class started at 150 lbf/in2 (1. 03 MPa), increasing to 165 lbf/in2 (1. 14 MPa), and then to 180 lbf/in2 (1. 24 MPa)

With the completion of grouping in 1923, GWR's collection