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Stoke-on-Trent
Stoke-on-Trent , also called The Potteries is a city in Staffordshire, England, which forms a linear conurbation almost 12 miles long, with an area of . Together with the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme Stoke forms The Potteries Urban Area...
, England
England
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History
It was founded in 1881 by James Kerr as James Kerr & Company, and became Kerr, Stuart & Company from 1883 when John StuartJohn Stuart
John Stuart may refer to:*Sir John Stuart, 4th Baronet , MP for Kincardineshire*John Stuart, 3rd Earl of Bute , Prime Minister of Great Britain from 1762–1763...
was taken on as a partner. The business started in Glasgow
Glasgow
Glasgow is the largest city in Scotland and third most populous in the United Kingdom. The city is situated on the River Clyde in the country's west central lowlands...
, Scotland
Scotland
Scotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
, but during this time they were only acting as agents ordering locomotives from established manufacturers, among them Falcon, John Fowler & Co.
John Fowler & Co.
thumb|right|John Fowler & Co. [[steam roller]] of 1923John Fowler & Co Engineers of Leathley Road, Hunslet, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England produced traction engines and ploughing implements and equipment, as well as railway equipment. Fowler also produced the Track Marshall tractor which was a...
and Hartley, Arnoux and Fanning. They bought the last-named company in 1892 and moved into the California Works in Stoke to begin building all their own locomotives. Hartley, Arnoux and Fanning had also been building railway and tramway plant. This side of their business was sold to Dick, Kerr and Co.
Dick, Kerr & Co.
Dick, Kerr and Company was a locomotive and tramcar manufacturer based in Kilmarnock, Scotland and Preston, England.-Early history:Having previously been known as W.B.Dick and Company the company had built all kinds of tramway equipment and rolling stock. From 1883 the company joined with John Kerr...
in Preston.
Notable Kerr, Stuart Employees
- Reginald Mitchell, Premium Apprentice, later to design the Supermarine SpitfireSupermarine SpitfireThe Supermarine Spitfire is a British single-seat fighter aircraft that was used by the Royal Air Force and many other Allied countries throughout the Second World War. The Spitfire continued to be used as a front line fighter and in secondary roles into the 1950s...
aircraft. - L. T. C. RoltL. T. C. RoltLionel Thomas Caswall Rolt was a prolific English writer and the biographer of major civil engineering figures including Isambard Kingdom Brunel and Thomas Telford...
, Premium Apprentice, later to be an author and canal/railway preservation pioneer. - T. C. B. Coleman, Premium Apprentice, later Chief Locomotive Draftsman of the London Midland & Scottish Railway during the 1930s
Kerr, Stuart standard designs
The Kerr, Stuart designs are typified by having a single trailing truck (allowing a large firebox to be placed behind the driving wheels) and/or having a saddle tank. Several designs of side tank locomotive were produced that shared a chassis and boiler with a saddle tank design and it is not unknown for a standard chassis from one design to used with a different design's standard boiler to produce a locomotive to suit a customers special requirements.
Standard gauge designs
| Name | Wheel Arrangement | Weight | Notes |
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| Huxley | 0-4-0ST | 16 Tons | |
| Witch | 0-4-0ST | 16 Tons | |
| Moss Bay | 0-4-0ST | 29 Tons | named after Moss Bay Haematite Iron & Steel Co Ltd, Workington Workington Workington is a town, civil parish and port on the west coast of Cumbria, England, at the mouth of the River Derwent. Lying within the Borough of Allerdale, Workington is southwest of Carlisle, west of Cockermouth, and southwest of Maryport... |
| Rugeley | 0-6-0ST | 31 Tons | |
| Priestley | 0-4-0WT | 25.5 Tons | |
| Argentina | 0-6-0T | 34 Tons | |
| Victory | 0-6-0T | ||
| La Manada | 4-4-0 | Locomotive number 1327 of 1913 built by Kerr, Stuart and Co. Ltd. London & Stoke - Preserved in Ferro Club Villa Lynch (Argentina) |
Narrow gauge designs
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| Wren | 0-4-0ST | 3.5 Tons | Pixie one of 27 of the Wren class ordered for a sewer contract in Essex, sold to Devon County Council in 1929. Purchased by the Industrial Locomotive Society in 1957; entered service at Leighton Buzzard Narrow Gauge Railway in 1969. Now at the Devon Railway Centre Devon Railway Centre The Devon Railway Centre is in the village of Bickleigh in Mid Devon, England, at the former Cadeleigh railway station on the closed Great Western Railway branch from Exeter to Dulverton, also known as the Exe Valley Railway. The Centre operates a 2ft gauge passenger railway and has the largest... . Peter Pan worked with Pixie in Devon. Purchased in 1972 by Graham Hall who found the locomotive in a back garden in Bromsgrove Bromsgrove Bromsgrove is a town in Worcestershire, England. The town is about north east of Worcester and south west of Birmingham city centre. It had a population of 29,237 in 2001 with a small ethnic minority and is in Bromsgrove District.- History :Bromsgrove is first documented in the early 9th century... and sometimes operates at the Leighton Buzzard Narrow Gauge Railway. Lorna Doone is now preserved by the Birmingham City Museum and Art Gallery Two worked on the Camber Railway Camber Railway The Camber Railway was a narrow gauge railway in the Falkland Islands, in the South Atlantic; it was one of the most southerly railways in the world. The Camber Railway was constructed to support the Admiralty wireless station, supplying coal to generators; it ran along the north side of Stanley... in the Falkland Islands Falkland Islands The Falkland Islands are an archipelago in the South Atlantic Ocean, located about from the coast of mainland South America. The archipelago consists of East Falkland, West Falkland and 776 lesser islands. The capital, Stanley, is on East Falkland... |
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| Sirdar South African Class NG1 0-4-0T In 1900 the British War Office placed two Sirdar class 0-4-0T narrow gauge tank steam locomotives in service near Germiston. At the end of the Second Freedom War the locomotives were sold to a farmer, who used it on a firewood line out of Pienaarsrivier until the line and locomotives were taken... |
0-4-0T | 6.5 Tons | Two of three locomotives being built for Allan Alderson and Company of Cairo for use during the Nile Barrage construction in Egypt were diverted to the British War Office in November 1899, for use by the Royal Engineers in a siege park in the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek during the Second Freedom War. | |
| Tattoo | 0-4-2ST | 6 Tons | Three examples exist in the UK, all operational : Stanhope (1917) on the Apedale Valley Light Railway Moseley Railway Trust The Moseley Railway Trust is a major British collection of industrial narrow gauge locomotives and other equipment. It originally had its base in south Manchester, but has completely relocated to the Apedale Country Park near Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire where a passenger railway is now open... ; Talyllyn Railway Talyllyn Railway The Talyllyn Railway is a narrow-gauge preserved railway in Wales running for from Tywyn on the Mid-Wales coast to Nant Gwernol near the village of Abergynolwyn. The line was opened in 1866 to carry slate from the quarries at Bryn Eglwys to Tywyn, and was the first narrow gauge railway in Britain... No.4 Edward Thomas Edward Thomas (locomotive) Edward Thomas is a narrow gauge steam locomotive. Built by Kerr Stuart & Co. Ltd. at the California Works, Stoke-on-Trent in 1921, it was delivered new to the Corris Railway where it ran until 1948. After that railway closed, the locomotive was brought to the Talyllyn Railway in 1951, then... (1921); and Corris Railway Corris Railway The Corris Railway is a narrow gauge preserved railway based in Corris on the border between Merionethshire and Montgomeryshire in Mid-Wales.... No.7 (2005); one or two survive out of service in Namtu Namtu Namtu is a town in northern Shan State, Burma. Famous for its Bawdwin and Namtu silver mines, it is situated on the Nam Tu River, and is connected to Lashio by rail.-History:... , Burma Myanmar Burma , officially the Republic of the Union of Myanmar , is a country in Southeast Asia. Burma is bordered by China on the northeast, Laos on the east, Thailand on the southeast, Bangladesh on the west, India on the northwest, the Bay of Bengal to the southwest, and the Andaman Sea on the south.... at the Burma Mines Railway. The class was built with either outside frames (such as Stanhope) or inside frames (such as Edward Thomas). |
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| Huxley | 0-4-2T | At least one survives in working order on the Burma Mines Railway. Joan on the Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway The Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway is a narrow gauge heritage railway in Powys, Wales. The line is around long and runs westwards from the town of Welshpool via Castle Caereinion to the village of Llanfair Caereinion. The track gauge is .... has a Huxley boiler carried on a modified Matary/Barreto chassis. |
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| Skylark | 10 Tons | Formerly used on Campbeltown and Machrihanish Light Railway Campbeltown and Machrihanish Light Railway The Campbeltown and Machrihanish Light Railway was a narrow gauge railway in Kintyre, Scotland, between the towns of Campbeltown and Machrihanish... and Snailbeach District Railways Snailbeach District Railways Snailbeach District Railways was a British narrow gauge railway in Shropshire. It was built to carry lead ore from mines in the Stiperstones to Pontesbury where the ore was transshipped to the Great Western Railway's Minsterley branch line. Coal from the Pontesford coal mines travelled in the... . A few survive at a sugar mill in Mauritius Mauritius Mauritius , officially the Republic of Mauritius is an island nation off the southeast coast of the African continent in the southwest Indian Ocean, about east of Madagascar... . |
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| Joffre | 0-6-0T | 8.5 Tons | named after Joseph Joffre Joseph Joffre Joseph Jacques Césaire Joffre OM was a French general during World War I. He is most known for regrouping the retreating allied armies to defeat the Germans at the strategically decisive First Battle of the Marne in 1914. His popularity led to his nickname Papa Joffre.-Biography:Joffre was born in... ; the Joffre class of 70 locomotives was a French Decauville design built by KS under contract during the Great War. Five of the class are known to have survived, all re-imported into the UK; these include Axe on the Lynton & Barnstaple Railway Lynton and Barnstaple Railway The Lynton & Barnstaple Railway opened as an independent railway in May 1898. It was a single track narrow gauge railway slightly over long running through the rugged and picturesque area bordering Exmoor in North Devon, England. Although opened after the 1896 Light Railways Act came into force,... and ones being restored for the Teifi Valley Railway Teifi Valley Railway The Teifi Valley Railway is a gauge railway operating between Llandysul and Newcastle Emlyn along the River Teifi, South Wales. It is a narrow-gauge tourist railway built on the GWR part of the Carmarthen and Cardigan Railway and currently operating on about two miles of track... and the Apedale Valley Light Railway Moseley Railway Trust The Moseley Railway Trust is a major British collection of industrial narrow gauge locomotives and other equipment. It originally had its base in south Manchester, but has completely relocated to the Apedale Country Park near Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire where a passenger railway is now open... . |
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| Haig | named after Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig, KT, GCB, OM, GCVO, KCIE, ADC, was a British senior officer during World War I. He commanded the British Expeditionary Force from 1915 to the end of the War... ); the Haig class was developed from the Joffre as a result of parts being left unused at the end of the Great War. Two examples survive in New Zealand (one of them at Ocean Beach Railway in Dunedin http://www.obr.org.nz), and one - Sergeant Murphy - on the Teifi Valley Railway Teifi Valley Railway The Teifi Valley Railway is a gauge railway operating between Llandysul and Newcastle Emlyn along the River Teifi, South Wales. It is a narrow-gauge tourist railway built on the GWR part of the Carmarthen and Cardigan Railway and currently operating on about two miles of track... |
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| Brazil | 0-4-2ST | 14.5 Tons | Several examples survive, including Excelsior on the Great Whipsnade Railway Great Whipsnade Railway The Great Whipsnade Railway, also known as The Jumbo Express, is a gauge narrow gauge heritage railway that operates within Whipsnade Zoo.-Overview:... and three locos of the Sittingbourne & Kemsley Light Railway |
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| Waterloo | 15 Tons | |||
| Matary/Barreto (both names used) | 0-6-2T | 17.5 Tons | At least one original example survives, Superior on the Great Whipsnade Railway Great Whipsnade Railway The Great Whipsnade Railway, also known as The Jumbo Express, is a gauge narrow gauge heritage railway that operates within Whipsnade Zoo.-Overview:... . Joan on the Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway The Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway is a narrow gauge heritage railway in Powys, Wales. The line is around long and runs westwards from the town of Welshpool via Castle Caereinion to the village of Llanfair Caereinion. The track gauge is .... has an modified Matary/Barreto chassis and a Huxley boiler. |
Steam railmotors
Kerr, Stuart had a large joiners shop and a significant passenger coach construction business. They were therefore very well placed to build steam railmotorRailmotor
Railmotor is a term which was used by several British railway companies for a steam railcar.-Overview:William Bridges Adams started building railmotors as early as 1848, but only in small numbers...
s. Their first was a diminutive gauge saloon for the Maharajah of Gwalior in 1904 followed by a batch of 11 standard gauge railcars in 1905, six for the Taff Vale Railway
Taff Vale Railway
The Taff Vale Railway is a railway in Glamorgan, South Wales, and is one of the oldest in Wales. It operated as an independent company from 1836 until 1922, when it became a constituent company of the Great Western Railway...
, two for the Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway was a major British railway company before the 1923 Grouping. It was incorporated in 1847 from an amalgamation of several existing railways...
, two for the Great Western Railway
Great Western Railway
The Great Western Railway was a British railway company that linked London with the south-west and west of England and most of Wales. It was founded in 1833, received its enabling Act of Parliament in 1835 and ran its first trains in 1838...
and one for the Great Indian Peninsula Railway. The GWR gave a repeat order in 1906 for a further 12 slightly more powerful units. The largest rail motor order was for 15 from the Italian State Railways
Italy
Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...
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- See also Kerr Stuart steam railmotorKerr Stuart steam railmotorThe Kerr Stuart steam railmotor was a one-off creation by the Victorian Railways. It was built in 1912 using a vertical boiler manufactured by the English company, Kerr, Stuart & Co. and a body built by the Victorian Railways at its Newport Railway Workshops where the railmotor was assembled. It...
(one-off, built 1912, for Victorian RailwaysVictorian RailwaysThe Victorian Railways operated railways in the Australian state of Victoria from 1859 to 1983. The first railways in Victoria were private companies, but when these companies failed or defaulted, the Victorian Railways was established to take over their operations...
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Custom-built designs
In addition to the company's standard designs the company accepted many orders to build to the customers' own designs in all gauges. The most impressive example for this certainly are the legendary 0-4-0LB locobreaks from 1900, strong and heavy tank engines designed to secure the trains through a cable claw on SPR (São Paulo RailwaySão Paulo Railway
São Paulo Railway was a privately owned British railway company in Brazil, which operated the gauge railway from the seaport at Santos via São Paulo to Jundiaí...
) and later EFSJ (Estrada de Ferro Santos a Jundiaí)'s gauge mountain cable incline between Paranapiacaba and Piaçagüera. Six of them are preserved.
An example of a narrow-gauge 0-4-0 tank engine, number 652 built in 1899, worked in the docks at Walvis Bay
Walvis Bay
Walvis Bay , is a city in Namibia and the name of the bay on which it lies...
, Namibia
Namibia
Namibia, officially the Republic of Namibia , is a country in southern Africa whose western border is the Atlantic Ocean. It shares land borders with Angola and Zambia to the north, Botswana to the east and South Africa to the south and east. It gained independence from South Africa on 21 March...
, until the 1950s and is now preserved in a purpose-built glass-windowed display hut in the forecourt of Walvis Bay station.
The California works produced in 1903/4 a 4-6-0 design for several Irish gauge lines including a 4-6-2T version for the Londonderry and Lough Swilly Railway
Londonderry and Lough Swilly Railway
The Londonderry and Lough Swilly Railway Company is an Irish public transport and freight company incorporated in June 1853. Despite its name it operates no railway services. It formerly operated 99 miles of railways but closed its last line in July 1953...
. For Chile
Chile
Chile ,officially the Republic of Chile , is a country in South America occupying a long, narrow coastal strip between the Andes mountains to the east and the Pacific Ocean to the west. It borders Peru to the north, Bolivia to the northeast, Argentina to the east, and the Drake Passage in the far...
a very large gauge double six-coupled bogie Meyer
Meyer locomotive
A Meyer locomotive is a type of articulated locomotive. The design was never as popular as the Garratt or Mallet locomotives. It can be best regarded as 19th Century competition for the early compound Mallet and also the Fairlie articulated designs....
followed in 1904 by five American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
style bar-framed 2-8-0 tender engines for the gauge Interocianic and Mexican Eastern Railways
Mexico
The United Mexican States , commonly known as Mexico , is a federal constitutional republic in North America. It is bordered on the north by the United States; on the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; on the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and on the east by the Gulf of...
. In May 1910 they built a gauge "modified Fairlie" for service in Madras. This was not a Fairlie
Fairlie
A Fairlie is a type of articulated steam locomotive that has the driving wheels on bogies. The locomotive may be double-ended or single ended...
but just two 0-4-2T engines permanently coupled back to back, the only articulation being between the two complete engines. They received a repeat order for this combination.
A truly remarkable standard gauge build of 1910 was a class of four handsome 4-2-2 express passenger locomotives to the design of E. J. Dunstan for the Shanghai
Shanghai
Shanghai is the largest city by population in China and the largest city proper in the world. It is one of the four province-level municipalities in the People's Republic of China, with a total population of over 23 million as of 2010...
Nanking Railway. The order was received on April 19, 1910 and the novel design required the production of totally new drawings and patterns for all parts. Even so, the first engine was steamed just seven weeks later on June 8, 1910. In service these engines, probably the last, and the biggest, single driver engines ever built, proved to be fast (60 mph), smooth running, and very economical on fuel when compared with similar 4-4-0 engines on the same line.
From the gauge Gwalior Light Railway in India
India
India , officially the Republic of India , is a country in South Asia. It is the seventh-largest country by geographical area, the second-most populous country with over 1.2 billion people, and the most populous democracy in the world...
, the company received several orders for locomotives and a wide variety of rolling stock over the years, culminating in the construction of four large 2-8-2 tender engines in 1928. Six very powerful superheated 4-8-0 mixed traffic locomotives built in 1929 were the last of a series of 4-4-0 and 4-6-0 machines built for the Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...
Central Railway of Argentina
Argentina
Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...
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In common with most British locomotive builders, in the postwar era Kerr, Stuart received a number of large orders from the mainline companies who were seeking to replace obsolete inherited equipment with their own standard designs. In 1920 the Metropolitan Railway
Metropolitan railway
Metropolitan Railway can refer to:* Metropolitan line, part of the London Underground* Metropolitan Railway, the first underground railway to be built in London...
ordered eight superheated 4-4-4 passenger tank engines for the Aylesbury
Aylesbury
Aylesbury is the county town of Buckinghamshire in South East England. However the town also falls into a geographical region known as the South Midlands an area that ecompasses the north of the South East, and the southern extremities of the East Midlands...
service. Between 1925 and 1927 the Stoke works built fifty standard class 4F 0-6-0 goods engines for the London Midland and Scottish Railway and in 1929 and 1930 a batch of 25 GWR 5700 Class
GWR 5700 Class
The Great Western Railway 5700 Class is a class of 0-6-0 pannier tank steam locomotive, built between 1929 and 1950. 863 were built, making them the second most-produced British class of steam locomotive.- Overview :...
0-6-0PTs were built for the Great Western Railway.
Diesel locomotives
In the late 1920s a number of diesel locomotives were built. These were available with two or three axles for various track gauges. The engines were by McLaren-Benz in 2-cylinder (30 hp), 4-cylinder (60 hp) or 6-cylinder (90 hp) form. Transmission was mechanical and final drive was by roller chainRoller chain
Roller chain or bush roller chain is the type of chain drive most commonly used for transmission of mechanical power on many kinds of domestic, industrial and agricultural machinery, including conveyors, wire and tube drawing machines, printing presses, cars, motorcycles, and simple machines like...
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They were very successful even though technology moved on quickly. Further development was stopped when Kerr, Stuart's went into receivership, but the Hunslet
Hunslet Engine Company
The Hunslet Engine Company is a British locomotive-building company founded in 1864 at Jack Lane, Hunslet, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England by John Towlerton Leather, a civil engineering contractor, who appointed James Campbell as his Works Manager.In 1871, James Campbell bought the company for...
range of diesel locomotives was based on these. At least 3 Kerr, Stuart diesel locomotives have survived into preservation but none is in original condition having been given different engines.
The company in liquidation
In 1929 a petition arrived from the Midland BankMidland Bank
Midland Bank Plc was one of the Big Four banking groups in the United Kingdom for most of the 20th century. It is now part of HSBC. The bank was founded as the Birmingham and Midland Bank in Union Street, Birmingham, England in August 1836...
for a compulsory winding-up order of the company. The London-based chairman had been illegally using Kerr, Stuart funds to finance a company in the city called Evos Sliding Doorways. This company had now failed and the Midland Bank
Midland Bank
Midland Bank Plc was one of the Big Four banking groups in the United Kingdom for most of the 20th century. It is now part of HSBC. The bank was founded as the Birmingham and Midland Bank in Union Street, Birmingham, England in August 1836...
(who had no other connection with the firm) required Kerr, Stuart & Co. to meet the Chairman’s obligations. The police were called in, only to discover that the chairman had disappeared and was never to be heard of again. In LTC Rolt's autobiography "The Landscape Trilogy" it is also alleged that the company secretary was discovered to have committed suicide in the Kerr, Stuart's London offices and a large quantity of burnt papers were found to have been burnt in the fireplace. The contracts that were in progress were completed and in 1930 the company closed. In 1930 the firm's goodwill (Designs, spare parts, etc.) was bought by the Hunslet Engine Company
Hunslet Engine Company
The Hunslet Engine Company is a British locomotive-building company founded in 1864 at Jack Lane, Hunslet, Leeds, West Yorkshire, England by John Towlerton Leather, a civil engineering contractor, who appointed James Campbell as his Works Manager.In 1871, James Campbell bought the company for...
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Some locomotives were built by W. G. Bagnall to Kerr, Stuart designs. This is a result of the chief Kerr, Stuart Draughtsman, F. H. B. Harris and a number of other staff, being employed by Bagnalls. These locomotives include examples of the Haig and Matary classes.
The last steam locomotive built in Britain for industrial use, was a Hunslet built Brazil class engine in 1971. This locomotive is now running on the private Statfold Barn Railway
Statfold Barn Railway
The Statfold Barn Railway is a mixed gauge railway of , and gauges, near Tamworth, Staffordshire. It is privately owned by Mr Graham Lee, chairman of LH Group Services Ltd – which in 2005 bought what remained of the Hunslet Engine Company....
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The Corris Railway
Corris Railway
The Corris Railway is a narrow gauge preserved railway based in Corris on the border between Merionethshire and Montgomeryshire in Mid-Wales....
commissioned a new locomotive based on the "Tattoo" design of its original No.4 (KS 4047 of 1921) and this was privately built over a ten year period and went into service in 2005 as No.7.
Preservation
| Location | Class | Name | Works Number | Built | Arrangement | Gauge | Notes | ||
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| Apedale Valley Light Railway Moseley Railway Trust The Moseley Railway Trust is a major British collection of industrial narrow gauge locomotives and other equipment. It originally had its base in south Manchester, but has completely relocated to the Apedale Country Park near Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire where a passenger railway is now open... |
Tattoo | Stanhope | 2395 | 1917 | 0-4-2ST | ex. Penrhyn Quarry Railway Penrhyn Quarry Railway The Penrhyn Quarry Railway first opened in 1798 as the Llandegai Tramway; it became the Penrhyn Railway in 1801 although on a different route. Constructed to transport slate from Lord Penrhyn's slate quarries at Bethesda to Port Penrhyn at Bangor, Wales. The railway was around six miles long... |
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| Amerton Railway Amerton Railway The Amerton Railway is a narrow gauge heritage railway in the English county of Staffordshire. It is owned by the Staffordshire Narrow Gauge Railway Society.Construction of the railway was begun in 1990 in a field at the side of Amerton Working Farm... |
Wren | Lorna Doone | 4205 | 1922 | 0-4-0ST | Purchased by RH Neal and sold to Devon County Council. Lorna Doone is currently being restored to working condition. | |||
| Jennie | Hunslet 3905 | 2008 | 0-4-0ST | Built by the Hunslet Engine Company in 2008 to the Kerr, Stuart Wren design, bought privately and housed at the Amerton Railway. | |||||
| Brecon Mountain Railway Brecon Mountain Railway The Brecon Mountain Railway is a narrow gauge preserved railway that runs through the Brecon Beacons along the full length of the Pontsticill Reservoir... |
Sirdar | Diana | 1158 | 0-4-0T | ex Kerry Tramway Kerry Tramway The Kerry Tramway was a gauge narrow gauge railway built in 1887 to serve the timber workings and slab quarry to the south of the village of Kerry, near Newtown in mid Wales.... |
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| Buckinghamshire Railway Centre Buckinghamshire Railway Centre Buckinghamshire Railway Centre is a railway museum operated by the Quainton Railway Society Ltd. at Quainton Road railway station, in the far depths of "Metro-land", about 5 miles west of Aylesbury in Buckinghamshire. The site is divided into two halves which are joined by two foot-bridges, one of... |
GWR 5700 GWR 5700 Class The Great Western Railway 5700 Class is a class of 0-6-0 pannier tank steam locomotive, built between 1929 and 1950. 863 were built, making them the second most-produced British class of steam locomotive.- Overview :... |
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| 90 hp Diesel | Redland | K4428 | 1929 | 4wDM | Heavily rebuilt | ||||
| Cavan & Leitrim Railway | Drummond | 3024 | 1916 | 0-4-2T | |||||
| Corris Railway Corris Railway The Corris Railway is a narrow gauge preserved railway based in Corris on the border between Merionethshire and Montgomeryshire in Mid-Wales.... |
Tattoo | No. 7 | 2005 | 0-4-2ST | Design based on the railway's original Tattoo (KS 4047) | ||||
| Foxfield Light Railway Foxfield Light Railway The Foxfield Light Railway is a preserved standard gauge line located south east of Stoke-on-Trent. The line was built in 1893 to serve the colliery at Dilhorne on the Cheadle Coalfield. It joined the North Staffordshire Railway line near Blythe Bridge.... |
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| 90 hp Diesel | Rom River | 4421 | 1929 | 6wDM | ex-R&ER Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway locomotives This article gives details of the locomotives used on the Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway, a narrow gauge preserved railway line running for from Ravenglass on the Cumbrian coast to Dalegarth near the village of Boot, in Eskdale.-No... , re-engined 1959 |
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| Great Whipsnade Railway Great Whipsnade Railway The Great Whipsnade Railway, also known as The Jumbo Express, is a gauge narrow gauge heritage railway that operates within Whipsnade Zoo.-Overview:... |
Brazil | Excelsior | 1049 | 1908 | 0-4-2ST | ex-Bowaters Paper Railway Bowaters Paper Railway The Bowaters Paper Railway was a gauge narrow gauge industrial railway. It had the distinction of being the last steam-operated industrial narrow gauge railway in Britain when it closed in 1969.-History:... |
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| Barretto | Superior | 4034 | 0-6-2ST | ||||||
| Leighton Buzzard Railway | Wren | Pixie | 4260 | 1922 | 0-4-0ST | ||||
| Lynton and Barnstaple Railway Lynton and Barnstaple Railway The Lynton & Barnstaple Railway opened as an independent railway in May 1898. It was a single track narrow gauge railway slightly over long running through the rugged and picturesque area bordering Exmoor in North Devon, England. Although opened after the 1896 Light Railways Act came into force,... |
Joffre | Axe | 2451 | 1915 | 0-6-0ST | ex. Gloddfa Ganol. Heavily rebuilt, but retaining many original parts, Axe Returned to Steam on 11 November 2008 at Woody Bay Woody Bay railway station Woody Bay, within the Exmoor National Park, is a station on the former Lynton and Barnstaple Railway, a narrow gauge line that ran through Exmoor from Barnstaple to Lynton and Lynmouth in North Devon. The station was situated inland, about 2 km from Woody Bay itself... for a dedication ceremony to honour the fallen railwaymen of the First World War |
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| Owned by Graham Morris | Wren | Peter Pan | 4256 | 1922 | 0-4-0ST | ||||
| West Lancashire Light Railway West Lancashire Light Railway The West Lancashire Light Railway operates at Hesketh Bank, situated between Preston and Southport in North West England. The Railway is narrow gauge and has a running length of . The full line is longer than this however it follows a ledge above the old clay pit which is narrow enough to prohibit... |
Joffre | "Joffre" | 2405 | 1915 | 0-6-0T | ex. Carriers de la Valee-Meureuse et Haut Bain Hydrequent, Pas de Calais, France | |||
| Moseley Railway Trust Moseley Railway Trust The Moseley Railway Trust is a major British collection of industrial narrow gauge locomotives and other equipment. It originally had its base in south Manchester, but has completely relocated to the Apedale Country Park near Newcastle-under-Lyme, Staffordshire where a passenger railway is now open... |
Joffre | 3014 | 0-6-0T | 2ft | |||||
| Narrow Gauge Railway Museum Narrow Gauge Railway Museum The Narrow Gauge Railway Museum is a purpose-built museum dedicated to narrow gauge railways situated at the station of the Talyllyn Railway in Tywyn, Gwynedd, Wales.... |
721 | 0-4-0WT | ex. Dundee Gasworks | ||||||
| Ocean Beach Railway Ocean Beach Railway The Ocean Beach Railway is a heritage railway that operates in Dunedin, New Zealand. It is located between John Wilson Drive in the suburb of Saint Kilda and sports grounds near Forbury Park Raceway, and runs parallel with the city's main beach, Ocean Beach... Dunedin, New Zealand |
Haig | 4185 | 1929 | 0-6-0T | Built for Kempthorne Prosser Kempthorne Prosser Kempthorne Prosser & Co. Ltd, also known as the New Zealand Drug Company Ltd, was the leading drug and fertiliser manufacturer in New Zealand from 1869 until 1978. Their complete name was Kempthorne Prosser & Co.'s New Zealand Drug Co. Ltd, established in Dunedin.Thomas Whitelock Kempthorne and... . Regularly operated on passenger trains |
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| MOTAT Auckland, New Zealand | Haig | 4183 | 1929 | 0-6-0T | This locomotive spent its entire working life with Kempthorne Prosser Kempthorne Prosser Kempthorne Prosser & Co. Ltd, also known as the New Zealand Drug Company Ltd, was the leading drug and fertiliser manufacturer in New Zealand from 1869 until 1978. Their complete name was Kempthorne Prosser & Co.'s New Zealand Drug Co. Ltd, established in Dunedin.Thomas Whitelock Kempthorne and... Ltd. at their Westfield (Auckland, N.Z.) fertiliser works. Retired in 1966, it was donated to MOTAT and operated there for a short time until boiler repairs were required. After a period on static display, the locomotive was dismantled during the 1970s for restoration. Ultimately the dismantled locomotive was leased to McDonald's Restaurants, and following restoration was on static display at their Paraparaumu establishment from 1987 to 2008. The locomotive is currently on static display at MOTAT. |
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| Phyllis Rampton Trust Phyllis Rampton Trust The Phyllis Rampton Narrow Gauge Railway Trust is a British charity which is registered with the British Charity Commission as 292240 under the classification of "Education/TrainingEnvironment/Conservation/Heritage"... Surrey, England |
3114 | 1918 | 0-4-0ST | Now at the Vale of Rheidol Railway (see below) | |||||
| Phyllis Rampton Trust Phyllis Rampton Trust The Phyllis Rampton Narrow Gauge Railway Trust is a British charity which is registered with the British Charity Commission as 292240 under the classification of "Education/TrainingEnvironment/Conservation/Heritage"... Surrey, England |
4408 | 1928 | 0-6-4T | ||||||
| Sandstone Steam Railway | Wren | Little Bess | 4031 | 1919 | 0-4-0ST | ||||
| 4063 | 1924 | 0-4-2PT | |||||||
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| Sittingbourne & Kemsley Light Railway | Brazil | Leader | 926 | 1906 | 0-4-2ST | ||||
| Premier | 886 | 1905 | |||||||
| Melior | 4219 | 1924 | |||||||
| Severn Valley Railway Severn Valley Railway The Severn Valley Railway is a heritage railway in Shropshire and Worcestershire, England. The line runs along the Severn Valley from Bridgnorth to Kidderminster, following the course of the River Severn for much of its route... |
GWR 5700 GWR 5700 Class The Great Western Railway 5700 Class is a class of 0-6-0 pannier tank steam locomotive, built between 1929 and 1950. 863 were built, making them the second most-produced British class of steam locomotive.- Overview :... |
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| Statfold Barn Railway Statfold Barn Railway The Statfold Barn Railway is a mixed gauge railway of , and gauges, near Tamworth, Staffordshire. It is privately owned by Mr Graham Lee, chairman of LH Group Services Ltd – which in 2005 bought what remained of the Hunslet Engine Company.... |
Brazil | Trangkil No.4 | 3902 | 1971 | 0-4-2ST | The last industrial steam locomotive built in Britain, regauged from gauge. | |||
| Talyllyn Railway Talyllyn Railway The Talyllyn Railway is a narrow-gauge preserved railway in Wales running for from Tywyn on the Mid-Wales coast to Nant Gwernol near the village of Abergynolwyn. The line was opened in 1866 to carry slate from the quarries at Bryn Eglwys to Tywyn, and was the first narrow gauge railway in Britain... |
modified Tattoo | Edward Thomas | 4047 | 1921 | 0-4-2ST | ex Corris Railway Corris Railway The Corris Railway is a narrow gauge preserved railway based in Corris on the border between Merionethshire and Montgomeryshire in Mid-Wales.... No.4; carried same number under CR, GWR, BR & TR ownership |
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| Teifi Valley Railway Teifi Valley Railway The Teifi Valley Railway is a gauge railway operating between Llandysul and Newcastle Emlyn along the River Teifi, South Wales. It is a narrow-gauge tourist railway built on the GWR part of the Carmarthen and Cardigan Railway and currently operating on about two miles of track... |
Haig | Sgt. Murphy | 0-6-2ST | ex. Penrhyn Quarry Railway Penrhyn Quarry Railway The Penrhyn Quarry Railway first opened in 1798 as the Llandegai Tramway; it became the Penrhyn Railway in 1801 although on a different route. Constructed to transport slate from Lord Penrhyn's slate quarries at Bethesda to Port Penrhyn at Bangor, Wales. The railway was around six miles long... , Heavily rebuilt |
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| Teifi Valley Railway Teifi Valley Railway The Teifi Valley Railway is a gauge railway operating between Llandysul and Newcastle Emlyn along the River Teifi, South Wales. It is a narrow-gauge tourist railway built on the GWR part of the Carmarthen and Cardigan Railway and currently operating on about two miles of track... |
Joffre | 0-6-0ST | ex. Gloddfa Ganol | ||||||
| Vale of Rheidol Railway Vale of Rheidol Railway The Vale of Rheidol Railway is a narrow-gauge gauge heritage railway that runs for between Aberystwyth and Devil's Bridge in the county of Ceredigion, Wales... |
Wren | Brockamin | 3114 | 1918 | 0-4-0ST | ||||
| Welsh Highland Railway Welsh Highland Railway The Welsh Highland Railway is a long restored narrow gauge heritage railway in North Wales, operating from Caernarfon to Porthmadog, and passing through a number of popular tourist destinations including Beddgelert and the Aberglaslyn Pass. At Porthmadog it connects with the Ffestiniog Railway... |
60 hp Diesel | 4115 | 6wDM | One of the earliest diesel locomotives in existence | |||||
| Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway The Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway is a narrow gauge heritage railway in Powys, Wales. The line is around long and runs westwards from the town of Welshpool via Castle Caereinion to the village of Llanfair Caereinion. The track gauge is .... |
modified Matary with Huxley boiler | Joan | 1927 | 0-6-2ST | Originally operated in Antigua, currently undergoing a major overhaul including a new boiler of revised design. | ||||
| West Lancashire Light Railway West Lancashire Light Railway The West Lancashire Light Railway operates at Hesketh Bank, situated between Preston and Southport in North West England. The Railway is narrow gauge and has a running length of . The full line is longer than this however it follows a ledge above the old clay pit which is narrow enough to prohibit... |
Joffre | Joffre | 2405 | 0-6-0WTT | Major rebuild to original condition underway. Scheduled to return to steam during 2009. | ||||
| unknown | 3010 | 0-6-0T | ex. Gloddfa Ganol, now stored at the Yaxham Light Railway Yaxham Light Railway Yaxham Light Railway is a narrow gauge light railway situated adjacent to Yaxham railway station on the Mid-Norfolk Railway. It is located in the village of Yaxham in the English county of Norfolk.- History :... |
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| Santa Cruz do Rio Pardo Santa Cruz do Rio Pardo Santa Cruz do Rio Pardo is a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. The population in 2005 was 42,259 and the area is 1116 km². The elevation is 467 m.... , SP (Brazil) |
Sinhá Moça (ex- Maceió) No. 1 | 928 | July 1907 | 0-4-2T | 3' 3⅜" (1,000 m) | operational (weekend and holiday tourist services); most authors still believe her to be static at Usina Serra Grande in São José da Laje São José da Laje São José da Laje is a municipality located in the western of the Brazilian state of Alagoas. Its population was 20,491 and its area is 265 km².... , AL |
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| Usina Serra Grande in São José da Laje São José da Laje São José da Laje is a municipality located in the western of the Brazilian state of Alagoas. Its population was 20,491 and its area is 265 km².... , AL (Brazil) |
No. 2 | 1244 | January 1912 | 0-4-2T | 3' 3⅜" (1,000 m) | static | |||
| Usina Serra Grande in São José da Laje São José da Laje São José da Laje is a municipality located in the western of the Brazilian state of Alagoas. Its population was 20,491 and its area is 265 km².... , AL (Brazil) |
Mestre Borges (ex- Nesita Forges) No. 4 | 4193 | September 1927 | 0-6-2T | 3' 3⅜" (1,000 m) | operational (tourist services) | |||
| Fives Lille in Maceió Maceió Maceió is the capital and the largest city of the coastal state Alagoas, Brazil. The name "maceió" is of Indian origin, and designates the natural spontaneously courses of water which flow out of the soil... , AL (Brazil) |
unknown | 4389 | march 1927 | 0-4-2T | 1' 11½" (0,597 m) | static (former Usina Cansanção do Sinimbu locomotive) | |||
| Usina Central Olho d'Água in Camutanga Camutanga Camutanga is a city located in the state of Pernambuco, Brazil. Located at 120 km from Recife, capital of the state of Pernambuco. Has an estimated population of 8.214 people and one of the strongest GDP percapita of Zona da mata Pernambucana.... , PE (Brazil) |
unknown | 4302 | June 1926 | 0-4-2T | 2' 5½" (0,750 m) | static | |||
| Usina Catende in Catende Catende Catende is a Brazilian municipality in the state of Pernambuco. Has an estimated population in 2009 of 35.251 inhabitants in a total area of 206.92 km². The economy is based on the cultivation of sugarcane and the production of derived products . Catende used to boast the world's largest... , PE (Brazil) |
No. 1 | 1281 | December 1912 | 0-4-2T | 3' 3⅜" (1,000 m) | static | |||
| Fazenda Guaritá in Rio das Flores Rio das Flores Rio das Flores is a municipality located in the Brazilian state of Rio de Janeiro. Its population was 8,361 and its area is 478 km².... , RJ (Brazil) |
Wren | none | 1248 | said to be 1914 | 0-4-0ST | 1' 11½" (0,597 m) | operational | ||
| 1st Railway Battalion of the Brazilian Army in Lages Lages Lages, formerly Lajens, is a Brazilian town located in the central part of the state of Santa Catarina, in the region known in Portuguese as "Planalto Serrano".... , SC (Brazil) |
Wren | Jaguarizinho No. 3 | 1194 | June 1912 | 0-4-0ST | 1' 11½" (0,597 m) | static | ||
| Fazenda Angélica in Dourado Dourado, São Paulo Dourado is a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil.-See also:*Dourado , different species of fish.... , SP (Brazil) |
No. 1 | 673 | June 1912 | 0-6-2ST | 1' 11½" (0,597 m) | static | |||
| Paranapiacaba Paranapiacaba Paranapiacaba is a village and a district of the municipality of Santo André in Brazil . It was established as a company town for the employees of São Paulo Railway, a privately owned British railway company. This railway allowed the transport of cargo and people from inside Paulista to the port of... , SP, Locomotive Depot (Brazil) |
No. 7 | 671 | 1900 | 0-4-0LB | operational (weekend and holiday tourist services) | ||||
| entrance of Paranapiacaba Paranapiacaba Paranapiacaba is a village and a district of the municipality of Santo André in Brazil . It was established as a company town for the employees of São Paulo Railway, a privately owned British railway company. This railway allowed the transport of cargo and people from inside Paulista to the port of... , SP (Brazil) |
No. 8 | 668 | 1900 | 0-4-0LB | static | ||||
| Oficina de Volantes Railway Museum in Paranapiacaba Paranapiacaba Paranapiacaba is a village and a district of the municipality of Santo André in Brazil . It was established as a company town for the employees of São Paulo Railway, a privately owned British railway company. This railway allowed the transport of cargo and people from inside Paulista to the port of... , SP (Brazil) |
Wren | No. 1 | 1015 | December 1907 | 0-4-0ST | 1' 11½" (0,597 m) | static | ||
| Fazenda Vassoural in Pontal Pontal Pontal is a municipality in the state of São Paulo in Brazil. The population in 2004 was 33,209 and the area is 356.38 km². The elevation is 515 m.... , SP (Brazil) |
Wren | No. 1 | 1195 | 1912 | 0-4-0ST | 1' 11½" (0,597 m) | static | ||
| Locomotive Depot at Estação da Luz Railway Station in São Paulo São Paulo São Paulo is the largest city in Brazil, the largest city in the southern hemisphere and South America, and the world's seventh largest city by population. The metropolis is anchor to the São Paulo metropolitan area, ranked as the second-most populous metropolitan area in the Americas and among... , SP, |
No. 2 | 662 | 1900 | 0-4-0LB | static | ||||
| Memorial do Imigrante (Immigrant's Memorial) in São Paulo São Paulo São Paulo is the largest city in Brazil, the largest city in the southern hemisphere and South America, and the world's seventh largest city by population. The metropolis is anchor to the São Paulo metropolitan area, ranked as the second-most populous metropolitan area in the Americas and among... , SP (Brazil) |
No. 4 | 664 | 1900 | 0-4-0LB | static | ||||
| Memorial do Imigrante (Immigrant's Memorial) in São Paulo São Paulo São Paulo is the largest city in Brazil, the largest city in the southern hemisphere and South America, and the world's seventh largest city by population. The metropolis is anchor to the São Paulo metropolitan area, ranked as the second-most populous metropolitan area in the Americas and among... , SP (Brazil) |
No. 9 | 669 | 1900 | 0-4-0LB | static | ||||
| Memorial do Imigrante (Immigrant's Memorial) in São Paulo São Paulo São Paulo is the largest city in Brazil, the largest city in the southern hemisphere and South America, and the world's seventh largest city by population. The metropolis is anchor to the São Paulo metropolitan area, ranked as the second-most populous metropolitan area in the Americas and among... , SP (Brazil) |
No. 11 | 667 | 1900 | 0-4-0LB | static |