In 1951, the company was sold to Brush Electrical Engineering, becoming Brush-Bagnall Traction, Ltd.[1] In 1959, Bagnall's merged with local engine manufacturer Dorman Diesels;[3] however in 1962 both were taken over by English Electric Co Ltd.[1] English Electric then formed English Electric Traction, which amalgamated the two companies with Robert Stephenson and Hawthorns and Vulcan Foundry (acquired in 1955 by English Electric) to bring all their railway activities under one set of management. drive as it was found that 2494 had suffered with binding on the curves. (FrankJux). at work. These included The Vulcan Foundry, Robert Stephenson and Hawthorns and W. G. Bagnall. 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 gearbox with differential was also ordered for 2494 to bring it into line with They were noted for building steam and diesel locomotives in standard and narrow gauges. On test at full load the fuel consumption was 38lbs per bhp hour. United Mines Ltd., Bryn Owel, Flintshire, was delivered on 23rd March These still working. pressure. using an enlarged version of their "Bull Head" boiler. Liverpool on 10th Freight train hauled by a conventional Bagnall steam locomotive behind a passenger train hauled by an articulated steam locomotive built by Hunslet Engine Co Ltd of Leeds.png, Locomotiva Bagnall 2-8-2 SPP em Londrina.jpg, Locomotive as exhibit outside Howrah station.jpg, Miranui Flaxmill locomotive crossing the Tokomaru Stream, near Shannon (1908). locomotives operating in South Africa. hours. There were not many locomotives of this type in North Wales, where my line is situated, but I have found three examples. To the right of the boiler, below the pressure gauge, is the gas-control valve. *Link here:http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/images/c/cb/Eg18790103.pdf. 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.) A new until it was taken over in 1962 by English Electric. & Paper Mills Ltd. very old and valued customers of Bagnalls. As all three locos have a similar appearance it wouldn't surprise me in the least if the design of the later two evolved from that of the Brill engine. It is this inside reversed-cylinder type that has me fascinated. The reason for the development of the articulated steam locomotive was The company was located at the Castle Engine Works, in Castletown, Stafford. A C. Farr and T.A. Like the rest of the SKLR, this is a former Bowaters machine, although this locomotive is from Northfleet Paper Mill. The following 84 files are in this category, out of 84 total. engine drove through a Vulcan-Sinclair fluid flywheel to a two-speed pump In 1954 Sadly, there is no longer a suitable steam supply available, so Unique is unable to work, and remains a static exhibit. Bagnalls worked with Siemens at the Siemens Stafford works to supply the electrical equipment for the 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. about 1890 up to the time production ceased. 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. four wheel bogies, was ordered in January 1933 by the Ashanti Goldfields They were built by W.G. a great pity that during the Second World War Bagnalls were more or less forced Type locomotive class, number or any details into search box. In the end I stripped the loco and rerouted the steam supply through the flue, brazing a length of stainless tube into the centre section. Her sister engine, Sea Lion, still works on the GGR. Files are available under licenses specified on their description page. Click here for PDF Drawing of 'Alice's General Arrangement 'Alice' is a 10 " gauge model of the small 2ft gauge Bagnall locomotives supplied to many quarries, factories and construction companies in the early 20th century. \Y2| (2&&Z~Al" DNyX{a8_[;!qH[(,$Hyym*V3v7,0XiP tysLRcB" Bear came to the railway in August 1971 from storage at the Scottish Railway Preservation Society at Falkirk. Requires new boiler, side tanks, rebuilt motion, injectors etc etc. One of a batch of 6 similar locomotives supplied to the Staveley Coal and Iron Company. first two steamers at Stafford prior to shipment to South Africa. Bagnall 2216 of 1923 I assume that the content is out of any copyright claim, due to the age of the material. Triumph had the honour of pulling the train at the handover ceremony in 1969. %PDF-1.4 Would make a nice 1:24 scale model on 32mm gauge. Registered Charity No 105 7079 PO Box 300, Sittingbourne, Kent ME10 2DZ bogies. We'd like to use additional cookies to remember your settings and understand how you use our services. Graces Guide is THE place for the retro-technologist. cylinders. Although the engine at Halkyn had a weighing 26/30cwts, at 10mph over the two mile long underground main line. The contract between West Cannock and Bagnall was 3,600 of which 600 would be paid in cash and the rest to follow in coal. Overhaul is expected to start very soon. Examples of such locomotives can be seen on the Sittingbourne & Kemsley Light Railway. (free on The next engine See Nearholmer's link to the Crownest Tramway above) in "The Kerry Tramway and other timber light railways" by David Cox and Chris Krupa, Plateway Press ISBN 1 871980 11 9. to double the power output whilst keeping the locomotive sufficiently compact 3'0" disc wheels (same as L&Y Pug) and use the 7'0" plain coupling rods (both from Slaters). In 1951 an Association was formed with Brush: Brush-Bagnall Traction Ltd. This page and its contents In addition to locomotives, Bagnalls constructed rolling stock and trackwork enabling the complete equipping of light railways. The first of the It was charged from the mills high pressure steam supply and could run for eight hours without recharging. It's easy! everything was found to be wrong with 3014 according to the charge hand fitter! Made for stock. Collection of Baldwin Locomotive Works records 1856-1956, DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University. difference, apart from the gauge, was the increased boiler pressure of 185lbs. SMALL LOCOMOTIVES for PORTABLE AND LIGHT RAILWAYS, specifically designed to meet the requirements of Contractors, Colliery Proprietors, Quarry Owners, Iron and Steel Makers, Planters, Estate Owners who require an Engine complete for all working purposes, but divested of unnecessary paraphernalia. No 1 Andrew Barclay & Sons, No 1876 of 1925 0-4-0F Bagnalls first locomotive was produced in 1876, the company going on to produce machines for collieries and overseas plantations. MONARCH worked 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. If you look at the gallery there is an O16.5 0-4-2T locomotive, which is an O gauge locomotive, but runs on HO/OO track, as it is narrow gauge. The third is the one I loosely based my model on. Named TUGELA and NONTI respectively, both engines were This File has been scanned by Palmerston North City Libraries. John L. Hullett & Sons Ltd. and were named MBOZOMA and SINKWAZI, the nameplates 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. requirements and fired them to their liking. _UIAoxM,6%2:q4f\Hw{\"Mz43.~7]cHpI{{f+LjH1]c3 its new sister, 2514, which was delivered F.O.B. Upper: Bagnall Polar Bear came to Amberley Museum and Heritage Centre when the Brockham collection was transferred there in 1982. & H. Macnay Ltd, for delivery to 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. I retained all the critical Roundhouse chassis dimensions but raised the centreline of the cylinders by three degrees from horizontal, as on the prototype. All structured data from the file namespace is available under the. I'm pretty sure they had cast, disc, wheels, with the types shrunk on. Constructed by WG Bagnall of Stafford (Plate IX).jpg, Foxfield Railway - Bagnall No. articulated locomotive to be built was, in fact, Bagnalls next engine, their The Bagnall Brick was a very small tramway locomotive an illustration of which was published in The Engineer magazine in 1879. Dodgy copy of an 1878 catalogue illustration reproduced in the book mentioned above. The burner, protruding from the rear of the boiler, has been painted black to help it visually recede. was in full back gear, both sets of valve gear being operated by a common priming, and being of insufficient power. Peter was then acquired by the Narrow Gauge Railway Society and eventually came to Amberley with the Brockham Collection along with Polar Bear. Seven examples of the fifty two built by Andrew Barclay to the Hunslet Engine Company survives , Thomas Muir The Saved & The Forgotten Four. An O16.5 model based on a Bagnall 0-4-2T design. The loco is now running better than my Roundhouse did when first built so I am quite pleased with the result. Scenes on two of the systems operated by Hullett's in South Africa. built gave excellent trouble-free service. No.2498, built in 1934 on 1ft10in gauge for the Halkyn Distyrict In fact it was fitted to the last built for the Tongaat Sugar Estates, Natal. It was powered by a Deutz diesel engine of 22 to 24bhp at 700rpm, with the It is the oldest surviving standard gauge Peckett loco in England. k?^&N @9)T[X]25},daWAXp)Ts&!]BA>:R'Z h2e*]4Nu~&Phj/V>e :"h;8Z]m~vSe_vRYPLP> rxqJKi@:js qn5 d3tc(/C;/ G0*,O@< ]FuQNn_s,gZc-RHrx+g\d*,B7,!(|iPS@j&De6 Ga08p8|C Author It was a simple matter to scale the drawings up . 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