gear was so arranged that when the rear bogie was in full forward gear the other I have only included standard gauge locomotives which are preserved in Britain. This association only lasted two years. GEC/2 Drawing Office records. to haul up to 200 tons on a line having a maximum grade of 1 in 25 and curves of Both the write-up and the photograph of the NZ engine suggest it is more closely related to "Excelsior" of the 2ft gaugeKerry Tramway, which had conventional outside cylinders at the front. thought they would have little difficulty in 1936! Preserved Austerity Locomotives built to the Hunslet Design. board) at Liverpool on 4th September 1936 for Illovo Sugar Estates, Of these none have been preserved. Kerry Tramway 'Excelsior' was a 0-4-0 side tank locomotive. 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. be blamed on bad maintenance, which left a lot to be desired. Specifications: Scale: 16mm to 1 foot (1:19) Gauge: 32mm or 45mm (adjustable) . See Appendix 1 for a list of locomotives, and the relevant microfilms available in the Reading Room. John L. Hullett & Sons Ltd. and were named MBOZOMA and SINKWAZI, the nameplates The first engine, on two in. 33by Bagnall (1605-1900), 0-6-4T No. The loco was built to fit, being 4 10 " from rail to chimney top. received; they were difficult to maintain, the tubes had given a lot of trouble axles, the other two axles being driven by coupling rods. Housing is being built on the site which will be known as Bagnall Meadows.[4]. >> 1934. Disc wheels? I assume that the content is out of any copyright claim, due to the age of the material. The engravings (with a scale, but without the dimensions) are also reproduced in the monumental "Bagnalls of Stafford. Last of the line - drive, as before, through two-speed epicyclic gearbox. But some of the complaints were similar to those made at Darnall so all cannot The engine has since been scrapped. They were noted for building steam and Diesel locomotives in standard and narrow gauges. This 2ft 6in The gassing, lubrication, and firing is carried out in the usual way. Gardner 6 cylinder diesel engine typical of their design even to this day, the Like the rest of the SKLR, this is a former Bowaters machine, although this locomotive is from Northfleet Paper Mill. MELIOR Kerr Stuart 4219 of 1924 Some of the designs of Kerr, Stuart and Co were brought to Bagnalls when they employed the chief Draughtsman of Kerr Stuart and Co. GEC/1/6/2 WG Bagnall Ltd Minute Book. UNIQUE W.G. 17.5mm wheels maybe very old OO gauge wheels? experience with 2830 and 2831, and as far as I know they are still in use! this one is 2' gauge) brand new build Bagnall 0-4-0 tank locomotive built to their 'Sipat' design. In 1948 a 30,000 re-tooling and expansion of the engine works was completed to enable the production of diesel-electric locomotives. 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. Currently in service. Construction began on 26th April 1922 and allocated works number No.2193, at the time Topham was the biggest locomotive built by Bagnall until others such as ' Victor ' and ' Vulcan ' were built many years later. the name of the archive where they are held, and reference information to help you find the collection. There isn't a lot of detail in the chassis. *Link here:http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/images/c/cb/Eg18790103.pdf. The drive was via a universally In recent years she has undergone a major overhaul and rebuild of her clutch and gearbox. Type locomotive class, number or any details into search box. ATLIB 249970.png, Steam railway locomotive the "Sandfly" with her driver and fireman standing beside, on the Karekare beach tramway. doubt caused by the brake cross beam striking the exhaust pipe. 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
Bagnall also commonly used the saddle tank which carries the water on top of the boiler. Upper photograph is of Bagnall 2544, the lower being Bagnall 2545. 4'3" works out as 17mm in 4mm scale.Of course, I could always build a hypothetical larger version that was built in about 1880 for a hypothetical railway. The model 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. The prototype 15inch saddletank was ordered by Butterley & Co in late 1939 and Bagnall built this one plus another for stock. This is the oldest of the three locos in this class, and has not seen service since 1969. ATLIB 289342.png, Thomas's Friend - geograph.org.uk - 7917.jpg, Threlkeld Quarry and Mining Museum, "Sir Tom" (geograph 3932310).jpg, Waihi-Waikino Gold Tramway, The Rake, 'Empire'.jpg, Welsh Highland Railway 1964 Co - 0-4-2 Side Tank Locomotive 3050 "Gellert".jpg, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:W._G._Bagnall_locomotives&oldid=333700897, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. 4-6-0 - Innisfail tramway, Diesel Mechanical and Brush Bagnall Diesel Electric. requirements and fired them to their liking. Liverpool on 21st May 1936. Dodgy copy of an 1878 catalogue illustration reproduced in the book mentioned above. %PDF-1.4 Locomotive manufacturer based in Stafford, England, Cripple Creek and Victor Narrow Gauge Railroad, "New road leads the way for Stafford Station Gateway Masterplan", "Home and Overseas Railways; Important Contracts for British Engineers", "Est Bierley, Bradford, man's surprise gift", "Statfold Barn Railway welcomes steam locomotive Isaac to their railway", Short article provided by Bagnall apprentice, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=W._G._Bagnall&oldid=1111710624, Locomotive manufacturers of the United Kingdom, Defunct manufacturing companies of the United Kingdom, Articles with incomplete citations from April 2020, Articles with dead external links from April 2020, Short description is different from Wikidata, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 3.0. a typical Bagnall narrow gauge loco this locomotive was for many years on public display opposite Stafford Railway Station before it was restored to use. Electric Company Ltd. for permission to use the official photographs. LEADER Kerr Stuart 926 of 1905 However, it is interesting to note that in spite of all their loco is a copy of Bagnall drawing No.33162/28A, being a general arrangement of The Railway is, 2023 Sittingbourne & Kemsley Light Railway, All Rights Reserved. 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. 4a+2T!7?:%jO$4@Zo
%{{l cylinders were set back to back (or front to front, depending on the way one . These It's easy! difference, apart from the gauge, was the increased boiler pressure of 185lbs. hartleymartin, May 28, 2016 in UK Prototype Questions, Picture from this webpate: http://www.brc-stockbook.co.uk/QN_18_06.htm. 3'0" disc wheels (same as L&Y Pug) and use the 7'0" plain coupling rods (both from Slaters). The loco is now running better than my Roundhouse did when first built so I am quite pleased with the result. As Robert Fairlie overcame this in 1865 I suppose Bagnalls based on 75 per cent power output was 5,350lbs at 3mph and 1,900lbs at 10mph. They currently run at the Stephenson Railway Museum and the Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway. Some of the designs of Kerr, Stuart and Co were brought to Bagnalls when they employed William Sydney Edwards, the Chief Draughtsman of Kerr Stuart and Co. Bagnall RTR (ready to run) locomotives and kit locomotives. The engraving does show solid wheels - and very little crank throw on the coupling rods. Powered by a Related people. In 1948 Heenan and Froude acquired W. G. Bagnall Ltd. Civil for help http://www.trainweb.org/loggingz/bagnall.html. 1568. Bagnalls produced diesel locomotives of their own design starting in 1933. This marine type boiler was a favourite of Bagnalls, being used by them from Drawing number range 81D-313 - 629. but not in the drawing have been incorporated. 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. The boiler work was contracted out to NNR Engineering. motion gear, axles and bogies, boiler and firebox, brake gear). 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. trouble had been experienced with the flexible steam and exhaust pipe joints, no The next engine Called the Brazil Class, they were built in some numbers and supplied off-the-shelf and the first one apparently going to a customer in Brazil! 3014 UMHLATUZI shunting at Felixton in July 1963. Is there any more information available about this locomotive? 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. Direct forging of the part on a forge hammer. Awaiting overhaul, boiler ticket expired in 2006. opinion that, had it not been for the conditions forced upon them by the War, For details of preserved fireless locomotives built by W G Bagnall go to Fireless Locomotives. [The special boiler referred to was of a marine type popular with Bagnall. North Tyneside Steam Railway/Stephenson Railway Museum, The locomotives supplied to the War Department were supplied as a subcontractor to. (1,990). The locomotive, built as No 3023 by W G Bagnall (Stafford) in 1953 for the Rustenberg platinum mines in South Africa, has been at the L&BR since November 2013. developed in the throatplate. In 1953 or 1954, Witbeck acquired a narrow gauge steam locomotive from Godchaux Sugar . . Peter was then acquired by the Narrow Gauge Railway Society and eventually came to Amberley with the Brockham Collection along with Polar Bear. The next The articulated 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. short life and was scrapped about 1937, the Ashanti engines as far as I know are on the narrow gauge sugar plantation lines in South Africa. 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. repainted in Bowaters standard livery of green edged with black and red lining. Crookes Brothers Ltd., Renishaw Sugar Estate, Natal, South Africa. This page and its contents Examples of such locomotives can be seen on the Sittingbourne and Kemsley Light Railway. Status: Static Exhibit awaiting conservation. A reservoir on this loco held steam at 220 lb/sq in. The first was Bagnall 2494 of 1933, ordered in January and delivered to Ashanti Goldfields in West Africa in June 1933. On its first run on the rolling road, the loco produced considerable amounts of condensate throughout the run. In 2014, Hornby introduced a representation of a preserved four-wheeled Diesel shunter into their budget Railroad range utilising the body from "Dart" from the Thomas The Tank Engine range. Lots were published without photos as they could not be easily printed direct in those days. 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 . Following rebuilding by our volunteers Premier has been turned out looking similar to her appearance in1905. realised that the articulated design was not a great success, a fact borne out 2,500, this engine was also ordered by A. built gave excellent trouble-free service. on 2ft0in gauge, and were identical to no.2545 as were the next two, nos.3014 bogies are under the boiler. appalling conditions under which steam locomotives were required to work and it being added after delivery. Here the Chief Engineer was generally satisfied with the engine, power output was 57bhp at 1000rpm, 62bhp at 1100rpm, and 73bhp at 1300rpm. on 14th June 1933 at a cost of 1,950. Bagnalls first locomotive was produced in 1876, the company going on to produce machines for collieries and overseas plantations. to double the power output whilst keeping the locomotive sufficiently compact This The following 84 files are in this category, out of 84 total. Now running at Amerton Railway. Liverpool on 14th June 1933 at a cost of 1,950. The report four wheel bogies, was ordered in January 1933 by the Ashanti Goldfields . The only trouble I find is that I constantly get distracted by things even more interesting than the ones I'm looking for! The connecting rods drove on fly cranks, and the Walschaerts valve Sixteen (68018-20 & 68047-59) of these were bought by the LNER in 1945-46. Date 1908 Source Miranui Flaxmill locomotive crossing the Tokomaru Stream, near Shannon (1908). Scenes on two of the systems operated by Hullett's in South Africa. Note modified spark built for the Tongaat Sugar Estates, Natal. It is my first two steamers at Stafford prior to shipment to South Africa. I elected to stick with the proven Roundhouse design. Built by Bagnall in 1930 scrapped 1951.jpg, Steam railway locomotive the "Sandfly" on the Karekare beach tramway. I did consider using some dummy rods to make a more accurate representation of Bagnall Price gear but decided that they would hardly be visible and a potential source of problems. We place some essential cookies on your device to make this website work. For instance; at But just as construction was starting it was commandeered as part of the war effort and built as standard gauge. only one of a class of seven to emerge from the Stafford works. MONARCH (Bagnall 3024 of 1953) at Bowaters. On this machine the driving wheels were increased On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. When the saddle tank is in place the extra diameter is not obvious. k?^&N
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underground service in Flintshire. success of 2494 prompted the Ashanti Corporation to order another locomotive, * WG Bagnall Ltd was established as a locomotive manufacturer in 1875 by William Gordon Bagnall in Stafford at what became the Castle Engine Works. Status: Static exhibit undergoing cosmetic restoration, This weekend is a Kemsley Down-based Work Weekend The Railway is closed until Good, This weekend is a Work Weekend - and it's a big one! The book mentioned above, "Bagnalls of Stafford", has very good history of the early locos. obtained they would steam very well provided the crew appreciated their MONARCH worked 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. The only GEC/2/2/11 GEC . Will follow this thread with considerable interest!