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The Grouping
Under the terms of the Railways Act 1921, the Great Western Railway (GWR) amalgamated with six companies - the "constituent companies" - and absorbed a large number of others - the "subsidiary companies". All of the constituent companies and ten of the subsidiary companies owned locomotives, ranging from the Taff Vale Railway which had 275 locomotives (one of which was not taken into GWR stock), to the Cleobury Mortimer and Ditton Priors Light Railway and the Gwendraeth Valleys Railway, with just two each. The constituent companies were amalgamated on 1 January 1922, some of the subsidiary companies being absorbed on the same date, the rest following at intervals until July 1923. Two more undertakings, not mentioned in the Act, which were responsible for shunting at Swansea Docks, sold their locomotives to the GWR soon afterwards.
Alexandra (Newport and South Wales) Docks and Railway
Thirty-nine locomotives acquired by the GWR on 1 January 1922.
Cambrian Railways
Ninety-nine locomotives were acquired by the GWR on 1 January 1922, including five narrow gauge: three on the Vale of Rheidol Railway, and two on the Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway
Cleobury Mortimer and Ditton Priors Light Railway
Two locomotives were acquired by the GWR on 1 January 1922
Gwendraeth Valleys Railway
Two 0-6-0ST locomotives were acquired by the GWR on 1 January 1923. One was given the GWR number 26, but the second (Margret) was sold in 1923 without being allocated a GWR number.
Llanelly and Mynydd Mawr Railway
Eight locomotives acquired by the GWR on 1 January 1923
Rhondda and Swansea Bay Railway
Thirty-seven locomotives acquired by the GWR on 1 January 1922
South Wales Mineral Railway
Five locomotives acquired by the GWR on 1 January 1923