The majority of the products that were manufactured were small four and six-coupled steam locomotives for industrial use, the company were noted for building steam and diesel locomotives in standard and narrow gauges. SUPERB W.G. Would make a nice 1:24 scale model on 32mm gauge. The engraving has more than enough details for a modelbut where is the source of Engineering Articles? During World War II, Bagnall was subcontracted work for the Hunslet Austerity 0-6-0ST which resulted in 52 being manufactured from 1943 to 1947. The next Note modified spark Victor has long been the work-horse of the SKLR, working engineering specials and staff trains, and generally acting as pilot at Kemsley Down. [/PDF/ImageB/ImageC/ImageI/Text] Well,there are multiple full-sized replicas of early Bagnall narrow gauge locos, so I thought it might be worth seeing if I could tempt anyone .. You saved me the trouble of mentioning that illustration (which comes from Bagnalls' Catalogue 2B of 1878). http://www.trainweb.org/loggingz/bagnall.html. [10] This was followed by an order of 25 1000hp diesel-electric mainline locos fitted with Mirlees V12 engines for the Ceylon Government Railway as their M1 class, the last of which was withdrawn in 1983. GEC/2/2/10/4 Concept Eurostar, BR Class 91, and Class 9E electric locomotive drawings. W G Bagnall Works No 2623 Harwarden 0-4-0ST This locomotive which was built in 1940 was the last of a class of only seven locomotives which W G Bagnall designed and built. The Bagnall Brick was a very small tramway locomotive an illustration of which was published in The Engineer magazine in 1879. Scenes on two of the systems operated by Hullett's in South Africa. As ever, we'd like to thank David Fletcher for his superb drawings, illustrating the livery options. 1934. GEC/2/1 Drawing registers. Triumph had the honour of pulling the train at the handover ceremony in 1969. Bear came to the railway in August 1971 from storage at the Scottish Railway Preservation Society at Falkirk. 3014 UMHLATUZI shunting at Felixton in July 1963. [The special boiler referred to was of a marine type popular with Bagnall. . (1,990). Files are available under licenses specified on their description page. Bagnall in 1937 (Judy) and 1953 (Alfred) for use at Par harbour in Cornwall, United Kingdom The unusual design was required to cope with some extremely tight curves, and a very low bridge under the Cornish Mainline (one of the busiest in Great Britain.) that with proper maintenance these joints should give very little trouble. on the narrow gauge sugar plantation lines in South Africa. 2995 was sold to NCB at the same time for use at a colliery and was scrapped in 1967. The following 84 files are in this category, out of 84 total. 'Proposed Design of new Diesel Locomotive' but features shown in the photograph If you are interested, contact us and please read our Terms of Trade. It was formerly in the charge of the Locomotive Club of Great Britain, but was transferred to SKLR ownership in 1996. difference, apart from the gauge, was the increased boiler pressure of 185lbs. This 2ft 6in On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Some of Kerr Stuart's designs were brought to Bagnalls when they employed Kerr Stuart's chief Draughtsman. Bagnalls introduced several novel type of locomotive valve gear including the Bagnall-Price and the Baguley. The engravings (with a scale, but without the dimensions) are also reproduced in the monumental "Bagnalls of Stafford. It is, I think, design to be built, an 040 + 040 side tank on 2ft0 in gauge, was Bagnall For instance; at 4a+2T!7?:%jO$4@Zo %{{l The majority of their products were small four and six-coupled steam locomotives for industrial use, and many were narrow gauge. Upper photograph is of Bagnall 2544, the lower being Bagnall 2545. for with the rear power bogies being directly under the firebox a normal WG Bagnall Ltd, locomotive engineers This page summarises records created by this Business The summary includes a brief description of the collection (s) (usually including the covering dates of. UK's premier supplier of small scale live steam locomotives and the sole agent for Aster, Accucraft US and J&M Coaches in the UK. BARTON HALL Hunslet 6651 of 1965 4w DH Birmingham, Tame & Rea District Drainage Board Railway, Minworth, England, Wendy is a 2ft gauge Quarry Bagnall formerly used at the, built for the Shropshire Beet Sugar Company at Alscott, near Wellington. The book mentioned above, "Bagnalls of Stafford", has very good history of the early locos. Bagnall Locomotive Ada Author: Colin Binnie Subject: Drawing. Built by Bagnall in 1930 scrapped 1951.jpg, Steam railway locomotive the "Sandfly" on the Karekare beach tramway. Examples of such locomotives can be seen on the Sittingbourne & Kemsley Light Railway. Will follow this thread with considerable interest! I know they were there in 1988, but now, who knows? GEC/2 Drawing Office records. mounted on a main frame built up from "H" section girders, the whole being These included The Vulcan Foundry, Robert Stephenson and Hawthorns and W. G. Bagnall. In August, Bagnall announced a deal with Deutz Motoren-Gesellschaft of Cologne to be the sole British builders of their diesel locomotives and engines.[9]. Now running at Amerton Railway. What a fascinating little prototype! Anyway, here is a Bagnall IST in NZ, although it is impossible to see the wheels or anything else below the footplate. In addition to building locomotives to designs produced by W G Bagnall the company also built fifty two Austerity 0-6-0ST engines for the War Department during 1944-1946 as a sub contractor to the Hunslet Engine Company. * Calculated at 85% of boiler working The name was inherited from a Bagnall 0-4-0 fireless locomotive scrapped in 1967. only place which had a good word to say was the Renishaw estate where 2545 was The restoration of this locomotive remains very much a long-term and expensive project. reasonably successfully at Bowaters but, in common with others of the class, was I would like to have a go at scratch-building one of these in 7mm scale, just to have something a little unusual. The first of the She originally worked at the Royal Naval Armaments Depot at Dean Hill in Wiltshire and was Yard No 6495. The report internal combustion locomotive field, their first being built in 1911! The above description, except for cylinder size and gauge, is The most detailed was in the journal "Engineering" (3rd January 1879 p17*), which was accompanied by a very detailed breakdown of leading dimensions. In addition to locomotives, Bagnalls constructed rolling stock and trackwork enabling the complete equipping of light railways. principles. Two Bagnall steam locomotives were converted to overhead electric for the Greaves Llechwyd Slate Mine. Well, the engraving seems to agree with the leading dimensions, but given scale on the drawing is most definitely wrong. It had been displayed on Bagnall's stand at the Royal . This http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/images/0/08/Er18790103.pdf. Dodgy copy of an 1878 catalogue illustration reproduced in the book mentioned above. The remainder was built from scratch. be blamed on bad maintenance, which left a lot to be desired. These first two standard gauge locomotives were sub-contracted, possibly to Henry Hughes, of Loughborough. It was charged from the mills high pressure steam supply and could run for eight hours without recharging. years service was abandoned owing to high maintenance costs, proneness to gearbox with differential was also ordered for 2494 to bring it into line with *Link here:http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/images/c/cb/Eg18790103.pdf. obtained they would steam very well provided the crew appreciated their It is my disadvantages of the articulated locomotive is the need for flexible steam and The valve gear is slip eccentric and the engine comes fitted with a 0.75 pressure gauge. These Bagnall Bagnall 2498 of 1934 as built for It does suggest holes at radii perpendicular to the crank lines - here's a better illustration from a contemporary locomotive ("BRICK", b/n 210 of 1879):http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/images/d/d9/Im1879Ev28-p017.jpg. 2,500, this engine was also ordered by A. appalling conditions under which steam locomotives were required to work and it Is there any more information available about this locomotive? Powered by Invision Community, The engine in the picture is an inside cylinder 0-4-0T which was supplied new to the Wotton Tramway in 1877 from W.G. realised that the articulated design was not a great success, a fact borne out The Victor/Vulcan 2994-6 locomotives were ordered by the Steel Company of Wales (SCOW) for their Abbey, Margam and Port Talbot works in 1950. Drawing number range 81D-313 - 629. Bagnall Ltd. of the Castle Engine Works, Stafford. It was built for Halkyn District United Mines Ltd., Bryn Owel, Flintshire where it was used underground on the 2-mile 'main-line'. A fourth locomotive of this type named Melior was delivered in 1924. Scenes on two of the systems operated by Hullett's in South Africa. The loco was built to fit, being 4 10 " from rail to chimney top. manufacture should concentrate on "rugged simplicity". At Darnall, where a See p4 for a "build it yourself" guide to a narrow gauge one. The boiler is of special design, can be readily washed out and examined. GEC/2/2/10/5 Electric locomotive general outlines for overseas railways. Other examples include the New Zealand TR class locomotive of which W.G Bagnall built seven in 195657. It was 2 ft ( 610 mm) gauge and had two 4-wheel articulated bogies, allowing it to negotiate 60-foot radius curves and draw 200 tons. Polar Bear came to Amberley Museum and Heritage Centre when the Brockham collection was transferred there in 1982. endobj Sixteen (68018-20 & 68047-59) of these were bought by the LNER in 1945-46. The Bagnall Ltd, Stafford, maker's No. Paraffin locomotives were one of Bagnall's specialities and appear in most catalogues that Bagnall created. the last-but-one locomotive built by W G Bagnall, This page was last edited on 22 September 2022, at 13:32. Woody Bay station, close to the original line's summit, stands at 980 feet. The tubes had Finally, the When the LCGB took over the railway in 1969 they decided to keep standard designs of locomotive so 'Superior' was sold to the Whipsnade Railway. They did, in fact, 8 0 obj On test at full load the fuel consumption was 38lbs per bhp hour. incorporate a proprietary article, namely, the "Flextel" patent joint, also made The model of the Bagnall Excelsior is available in two formats, an 0-4-0 as originally built and as an 0-4-2 as rebuilt and used firstly on the Lynton and Barnstaple and latterly at a quarry at Portland. They were built by W.G. complicated and delicate for conditions on the plantations. Phoenix Works, Bradford British Rail: Southern Region Details Measurements: . Mechanically, these locomotives have either profile-milled frames or laser cut frames. & Paper Mills Ltd. very old and valued customers of Bagnalls. I have only included standard gauge locomotives which are preserved in Britain. on 2ft0in gauge, and were identical to no.2545 as were the next two, nos.3014 In 1948 WG Bagnall Ltd was sold to the Bridge and Steelwork Company, Heenan and Froude, whose owner also owned The Brush Electrical Engineering Co Ltd of Loughborough and in 1951, Bagnalls formed an association with Brush to create Brush-Bagnall Traction Ltd. Corporation Ltd., for their 2ft 0in gauge system in West Africa. They used to hand-build narrow gauge locomotives one at a time. stream I do rather like these eccentric little Tramways and Light Railways of England, despite living in New South Wales. 3j.>1K-fCX$7%2ETd&EY h:^U9)'1CRW]ooD3#M?Y1%med.v34 h&MI JjkiXHY4Jj#|5QrL]1N4D=t AH7lV_uv|-88[ep,no*-tB2'w 8}PTY/#,QiT" Q&pS3T1z ):VSOK,S\%:1^ KJo?e1,b/Gc/ E]/d*1zc87ep-oeJ8:=1C_ >d%+ M1z'"CF!wS_U_w5P~Zpl`SP{{NH4g@gM1'WL e9'^[D6A\J*fCdgpaUV61^j+7M>8kr#Kb|Ukg!6c}6id`d.]!=m?*c["DK}C{=Ncl Ed[SY\~G =p#V^EvE}WHv)p1 9L&TD\?^a"sJ+u$JZsW\57 z!eK%a^puH@2n"{H/?@@$'c={a[BPUtS"i)zfFJo)6SULS?'P(@nM#t N*}}"$6^H$&t\MYckU. The reason for the development of the articulated steam locomotive was If I ever get around to learning a cad program, I might be able to produce a modeller's drawing. four wheel bogies, was ordered in January 1933 by the Ashanti Goldfields this one is 2' gauge) brand new build Bagnall 0-4-0 tank locomotive built to their 'Sipat' design. Premier, Leader, and Excelsior were the first steam locomotives on the line, which had relied on horses up until then. diesel locomotives mentioned earlier were of a very novel design being the everything was found to be wrong with 3014 according to the charge hand fitter! They currently run at the Stephenson Railway Museum and the Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway. The engine has since been scrapped. at work. At Felixton UNIQUE W.G. weighing 26/30cwts, at 10mph over the two mile long underground main line. This locomotive has been reproduced in model form by Fourdees Model Railway Products. Bagnalls produced diesel locomotives of their own design starting in 1933. _UIAoxM,6%2:q4f\Hw{\"Mz43.~7]cHpI{{f+LjH1]c3 The positions of the cylinders and wheels where almost the same as the Roundhouse chassis, though the overall length of the Billy chassis was slightly shorter and inside framed. Enthusiasts have reinstated almost a mile of the iconic former 20-mile route, which the Southern Railway . PREMIER Kerr Stuart 886 of 1905 Is it specifically the ones with inside and reversed cylinders that you want? locomotives have been described by various writers as Garratts, Fairlies, The company was located at the Castle Engine Works, in Castletown, Stafford. Palmerston North City Library, digitisation ID 2007N Fx91 FLA 0636.jpg, Model of train engine Mysore Rail Museum.JPG, Old steam loco outside Howrah Junction.jpg, Sawmill locomotive at Pakihi ATLIB 336147.png, Standard metre gauge locomotive for Mysore Railway built by W. G. Bagnell Ltd..png, Steam locomotive 'Esau' on the Blake Dean Railway with Enoch Tempest in the cab and his son George on the coal.jpg, Steam locomotive at Briandale mine at the 10 mile . detail drawings for each locomotive component, eg. Collection of Baldwin Locomotive Works records 1856-1956, DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University. up to 60ft radius. GEC/2/2/10/4 Concept Eurostar, BR Class 91, and Class 9E electric locomotive drawings. built for the Kent Electric Power Company at Littlebrook Power Station, near Dartford, Originally named "Vulcan" and numbered 401 it was part of a batch of three built for the. 7 1 / 4 " Bagnall Narrow Gauge Locomotive. gear was so arranged that when the rear bogie was in full forward gear the other With the ability to top up the water, almost continuous running should be possible with only slight interruptions to top up the gas. Bachmann Branchline currently produce the OO gauge version of the LMS Fowler Class 3F which Bagnall built and Bachmann are currently manufacturing the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway liveried Fowler 3F which has been correctly numbered to number 23 which is a number of one of the Bagnall 3Fs, it also features printed Bagnall name plates. The Goodall valve is in the saddle tank. The two tanks were joined underneath the smokebox and supported the smokebox. Welshpool & Llanfair Railway Preservation Society (who wishes to remain Illova it was found that 2544 was completely out of favour and after twelve The gas tank has a duration of 20 minutes on the smaller 0-4-0 and 25 minutes on the 0-4-2. Excelsior was built in 1888 as builders number 970 by Bagnall and company for use on the 2 ft gauge Kerry Tramway.Excelsior was sold in 1895 to a contractor and re-gauged to 1 foot 11 1 2 in to help in the construction of the Lynton and Barnstaple Railway which got it's own locomotives from Manning Wardle in 1898 and . At Halkyn it was used to haul trains of up to 100 cars, each MELIOR Kerr Stuart 4219 of 1924 4-6-0 - Innisfail tramway, Diesel Mechanical and Brush Bagnall Diesel Electric. Bagnall developed the inverted saddle tank. It was required window.dfp_ad_id = '/21784358039/RW_Web_Forum/RW_Web_Forum_UK_Prototype'; By Background Bagnall 0-4-0 and 0-4-2 Excelsior, Copyright 2010 Wrightscale | thought they would have little difficulty in 1936! Copyright 2022 RMweb.co.uk In later life 2994 and 2996 were sold to the Austin Motor Company and were named 'Victor' and 'Vulcan'. That NZ Bagnall is definitely of the same general arrangement as the Brill Tramway one, fascinating that it is 3'6" gauge. While the Halkyn engine was scrapped in 1937, the Ashanti engines had remarkably long lives. Bagnalls carried out a survey, under actual working conditions, of all their One of the This File has been scanned by Palmerston North City Libraries. Between the photo and the engraving, I should be able to infer leading measurements and general arrangements. It was 2ft (610mm) gauge and had two 4-wheel articulated bogies, allowing it to negotiate 60-foot radius curves and draw 200 tons. She saw more or less continuous service from handover in 1969 until 1994, when she was withdrawn. requirements and fired them to their liking. This information will help us make improvements to the website. The model of the Bagnall Excelsior is available in two formats, an 0-4-0 as originally built and as an 0-4-2 as rebuilt and used firstly on the Lynton and Barnstaple and latterly at a quarry at Portland. * 16539 (In the LMS 1934 renumbering scheme it became No.7456) was built by Bagnall in 1926 was one of two locomotives regauged by the London, Midland and Scottish Railway for the Northern Counties Committee, the other locomotive was built by Hunslet Engine Company of Leeds which lasted until 1963, the Bagnall lasted until 1956 when a suspect crank pin led to her early withdrawal. Sybil was an open-cab version on the Dinorwic Quarry. loco 3024 as supplied to Bowater Lloyds. arrangement was designed and built by Bagnall. of the class no.3024 MONARCH, also built in 1953 was the last. ATLIB 249970.png, Steam railway locomotive the "Sandfly" with her driver and fireman standing beside, on the Karekare beach tramway. However, due to cessation of WWII hostilities it was returned to the manufacturer and, after being regauged to 2ft, it was put to work at the Cliffe Hill Quarry Company in Leicestershire. ATLIB 131065.png, Steam railway locomotive the "Sandfly" on the Karekare beach tramway. Bagnalls introduced several novel type of locomotive valve gear including the Bagnall-Price and the Baguley. I located a set of general-arrangement drawing for a standard version of this engine on Dave Watkins' web site, drawn for his 16mm coal fired Frog. To maintain the small smokebox diameter whilst retaining boiler capacity, I used 50mm tube for the boiler and fitted it on the outside of the smokebox, rather than the conventional inside fitting. This engine masquerades as Ivor the Engine during special events related to the books by Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin. A full-sized replica? Bagnall 2494 of 1933. The boiler is a conventional single flue, gas-fired type. success of 2494 prompted the Ashanti Corporation to order another locomotive, The series contains 35 sub-series for technical engineering drawings by company's represented within the archive. typical of all the class. The roll contains c 12 waxed linen drawings of wiring diagrams for diesel electric locomotives. cracking and had replaced all of them. Collection. Kerry Tramway 'Excelsior' was a 0-4-0 side tank locomotive. Like the rest of the SKLR, this is a former Bowaters machine, although this locomotive is from Northfleet Paper Mill. reversing lever. It is this inside reversed-cylinder type that has me fascinated. built for the Tongaat Sugar Estates, Natal. Scenes on two of the systems operated by Hullett's in South Africa. An interesting side issue here was that it was % The boiler is refillable in steam. Crookes Brothers Ltd., Renishaw Sugar Estate, Natal, South Africa. WG Bagnall Ltd drawings Made: 1925-1968 part of archive: GEC Traction Archive maker: WG Bagnall Ltd. Electric Company Ltd. for permission to use the official photographs. The whole arrangement was quite foolproof to enable MONARCH worked looked at it!). Darnall, where 2830, 2831 and 3015 were working, similar complaints were In 1951 an Association was formed with Brush: Brush-Bagnall Traction Ltd. exhaust pipe joints. built for the Rustenburg Platinum Mines in South Africa. Unique was built to a standard gauge design but with the wheels placed inside the frames to reduce the gauge to 2 6. and 3015. /Length 9 0 R Early in 1966 MONARCH was acquired by a member of the A block of lead was cast and fitted behind the front beam to cure this unseemly behaviour. The locomotive, Bagnall 2494, was delivered F.O.B. Last of the line - Related people. cylinders. and information, member Ken Fleming for his excellent drawings and The English is obvious that the articulated design was not a success. [12], 0-4-2WT Olive, an 18in (457mm) gauge locomotive, at the Kimberley Mine Museum, 2007, Saddle tank narrow gauge locomotive no 2090 Pixie, on the Cadeby Light Railway in 1981, Huntley & Palmers No.1, Bagnall 0-4-0F preserved at Cholsey and Wallingford Railway. loco is a copy of Bagnall drawing No.33162/28A, being a general arrangement of Two views of Ashanti Goldfields No.1, Bagnall 2494 of 1933. in diameter from 1ft8in to 2ft0in and a differential gear was included in the The footplate was stepped down at the rear to allow for a lower roofline, presumably to suit the loading gauge in the quarry -- something I have not copied. but not in the drawing have been incorporated. This page and its contents per sq. The conclusions After the war, Bagnall resumed building diesels, extending and re-tooling the works in 1948 to handle the production of diesel-electric locomotives, with the first locomotive supplied 1950 for the Steel Co of Wales, Port Talbot. The first railway locomotive was built the following year. It was supplied new with a full cab to the Llechwedd Quarry in 1899, works No. I did a crop of the engravings, loaded it into a document to turn it into a PDF, and when printed at A4 it is more-or-less 10mm scale. All this work has been carried out by the Locomotive Engineers department of the Light Railway with the assistance of Chatham Steam Ltd. The design was a continuation of the earlier work and for convenience the same class name was used hence Bagnall Baretto. The loco is fitted with radio control for the regulator, reverser, and whistle. They originally worked at the . Subscribe now for regular news, updates and priority booking for events, All content is available under the Open Government Licence v3.0, except where otherwise stated, 1915-25: workmen's day book, photographs (12), Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service: Staffordshire County Record Office, 1889-1924: private ledger and balance sheets, 19th-20th Cent: financial records, valuations and inventories, registers of drawings, and locomotives built, drawings and blueprints, drawing microfilm negatives, production records, casting and patterns registers, manuals to individual locomotives, tendering, sales and orders records salesmen's albums, files rel Sudan Railways, 19th-20th cent: scrapbooks of ms and printed memorabilia, family photograph albums and loose photographs, drawings mounted on postcards, draft plans, 1890s-20th cent: Castle Engine Works, Stafford: records of production manager, inc sales catalogues, locomotive sales cards; production and customer records incl client contacts and notebook of orders, inventory of workshop tools and machinery, notebook rel legal case, photographs of locomotives, works and staff, machinery register, About our Status: Static Exhibit awaiting conservation. Bagnall tyres were not so "weldable" as Hunslets! In 1933 Bagnalls entered into an agreement with Deutz of Germany to manufacture their locomotives under licence using engines imported from Germany. power output was 57bhp at 1000rpm, 62bhp at 1100rpm, and 73bhp at 1300rpm. The third is the one I loosely based my model on. Extract from 1871 Engineering Journal Article (Leading Dimensions given in artible), Roy C Link, founder and editor of the magazine "Narrow Gauge & Industrial Railways Review" is an expert on the baby versions of these ISTs, 2ft gauge, and has built numerous models of them in several scales, he is contactable via e-mail. experience with 2830 and 2831, and as far as I know they are still in use! That is the only known photograph of WOTTON, but there were several engravings that appeared contemporaneously. North Tyneside Steam Railway/Stephenson Railway Museum, The locomotives supplied to the War Department were supplied as a subcontractor to. using an enlarged version of their "Bull Head" boiler. this design (the last) were both for the Ashanti Corporation and were identical Awaiting overhaul, boiler ticket expired in 2006. The boiler is refillable in steam. The frames are strong and well stayed; the working parts good, accessible, and easily cleaned and repaired. They also used marine (circular) fireboxes on narrow gauge engines, a design that was cheap but needed a different firing technique. It will be noticed that the Bagnall engine is more compact and that the ], -- Drawing by Dave Watkins: Used with permission. S19-39B Bagnall 2-4-0T in . Bagnall also manufactured electric locomotives. For details of preserved fireless locomotives built by W G Bagnall go to Fireless Locomotives. In 1948 Heenan and Froude acquired W. G. Bagnall Ltd. The Great Western Railway Bagnall GWR 9400 Class was numbered 84008449 and numbers 8400 to 8406 were employed on the former L.M.S. Although the engine at Halkyn had a TRIUMPH W.G. Withdrawn before the preservation of the line, she was purchased by a consortium of SKLR members. In 1961 English Electric Co acquired W. H. Dorman and Co. This page was last edited on 6 January 2019, at 13:42. Upper: Bagnall 3014 UMHLATUZI shunting at Felixton in July 1963. In 1959 W. G. Bagnall was sold to W. H. Dorman and Co, a neighbouring Stafford diesel engine maker, by Heenans in exchange for Dorman shares. The They were unusual in having "reversed" inside cylinders, which drove the front axle. drawn were that the standard articulated design was not sufficiently robust to For more information on the Bagnall, click one of the links below. The model Used first at Nettleton Top iron ore mine, she came to the railway by way of the Great Whipsnade Railway. Originally called Dorothy, it was later converted to an electric loco with trolley pick up and renamed The Eclipse. Overhaul is expected to start very soon. The Stafford locomotive construction company started in 1875 when William Gordon Bagnall took over the millwright business of Massey and Hill. class were built until 1946 when Macnays ordered two (Bagnall nos.2830 and Unusual in having modified Hackworth Valve Gear, her name (made better) may reflect this development in basic design. Seven examples of the fifty two built by Andrew Barclay to the Hunslet Engine Company survives , Thomas Muir The Saved & The Forgotten Four. However I understand that these have a profile more suited to EM gauge than standard 0 so I'm not sure if they would work. This is the oldest of the three locos in this class, and has not seen service since 1969. It was powered by a Deutz diesel engine of 22 to 24bhp at 700rpm, with the Preserved Austerity Locomotives built to the Hunslet Design In addition to building locomotives to designs produced by W G Bagnall the company also built fifty two Austerity 0-6-0ST engines for the War Department during 1944-1946 as a sub contractor to the Hunslet Engine Company. recommended that the design should not be offered again in South Africa and that their double bogie design would have become very popular, as the few examples Main effort is now concentrated on overhauling the boiler including replacing the old steel firebox with a new all welded replacement. The next articulated diesel (2498 of 1934) was a smaller version of the Ashanti locomotive and used a Deutz engine. would like to thank Messrs. W.A. until it was taken over in 1962 by English Electric. Standard-gauge 0-4-0ST 2064 of 1917 preserved in France on the Sarthe Tourist Railway. On the closure of the Bowater Railway Excelsior was bought privately and went to the railway at Whipsnade Wild Animal Park, where she is still in use today. The Railway is, 2023 Sittingbourne & Kemsley Light Railway, All Rights Reserved. it to be driven by unskilled natives. In low gear at an 4), Bagnall-built Austerity 0-6-0ST 2766 (WD75178), Cripple Creek and Victor Narrow Gauge Railroad 4, 0-4-0 T steam locomotive 'ADA' of W. Bagnall at Cloughbottom Reservoir.jpg, 0-4-0 T steam locomotive 'Minnie' of W. Bagnall at Cloughbottom Reservoir.jpg, 18 inch gauge locomotive, Kimberley Diamond Mine Museum.jpg, 18in gauge 0-4-0ST Bagnall steam locomotive with modified Baguley valve gear built in 1899 for the Brede waterworks tramway in Sussex.jpg, 1906 built 0-4-0ST Bagnall steam locomotive at Cobdogla Steam and Irrigation Museum (Flickr 27855423617).jpg, Appleby industrial narrow gauge 0-4-0 saddle tank locomotive.png, Bagnall 3132 Whangarei 9Octo2014 (14941814183).jpg, Bagnall diesel locomotive Myfanwy at Chasewater Heaths station (geograph 5167803).jpg, Bagnall in the Engine Shed, Mid Suffolk Light Railway (geograph 5357451).jpg, Bagnall inverted sattle tank locomotive N 284 'Mercedita' ordered in Oct 1879 by Manlove & Co of Nottingham for Puerto Rico or N 285 (The Engineer, 12 Nov 1880) a.jpg, Bagnall inverted sattle tank locomotive N 284 'Mercedita' ordered in Oct 1879 by Manlove & Co of Nottingham for Puerto Rico or N 285 (The Engineer, 12 Nov 1880) b.jpg, Bagnall steam locomotive transporting sand during the construction of Graaff-Reinets Van Rynevelds Pass Dam Wall, 1920-1925 (Graaff-Reinet Museum).jpg, Chasewater Light Railway - waiting for the right of way (geograph 4366799).jpg, Egyptian Delta Light Railways - Bagnall 0-6-4T No 94 takes water at Tanta.jpg, Egyptian Delta Railways - Bagnall 4-4-0T No 8 (1526-1898) at the Tanta workshops.jpg, Egyptian Delta Railways - From the left 4-4-0T No. 4 & quot ; from rail to chimney top when they employed Stuart... 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