Canonical locomotive pilot record
G&SWR 5 Class No. 9
The sole surviving G&SWR locomotive gives south-west Scotland its own national company record, while its detailed railway and industrial operating chronology remains an explicit research gap.
Established survivor · operating history incomplete
Stable identity
What this record identifies
Classification, design and individual identities are kept separate so later numbers or related engines do not create duplicates.
- Classification
- G&SWR 5 Class · 0-6-0T
- Individual
- Glasgow and South Western Railway No. 9
- Built
- North British Locomotive Co, Glasgow · 1917 · works No. 21521
- Later identity
- LMS 16379 · later colliery and NCB service
Canonical record identifiers
srr:locomotive-classification:gswr-5-classsrr:locomotive:gswr-9srr:organisation:glasgow-and-south-western-railway
Company and surviving identity · Qualified
South-west Scotland enters as a company, not a borrowed route footnote
The G&SWR Association identifies the railway's south-west Scottish territory and No. 9 as its only surviving locomotive; Glasgow Museums describes its steam collection as containing representatives of each of the five principal Scottish railway companies. The present packet does not yet provide No. 9's complete railway and colliery chronology, so that part remains qualified.
Read the G&SWR Association overview →Sources and open questions
Evidence before certainty
Direct links support the published relationship. Remaining gaps stay alongside the record rather than being filled with typical or assumed details.
Still unresolved
- A detailed primary or museum object record for No. 9 has not yet been linked.
- Its complete G&SWR, LMS, colliery and NCB chronology remains to be assembled.
- No route working is inferred from survival or museum display.
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