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. Bagnall tyres were not so "weldable" as Hunslets! requirements and fired them to their liking. reversing lever. in Stafford by the then well known firm of Dorman & Co Ltd. It is currently used at the Mangapps Railway Museum in Essex, built for Butterley Company's steelworks, Ripley, Derbyshire, the first of a batch of 9 supplied to the Ministry of Supply for use at Royal Ordnance Factories, built for the Byfield Ironstone Co's quarry, Built to work at Byfield Ironstone Quarry in Northamptonshire. sugar estates in Natal. One of five lightweight shunters used on the wharves in, No 2613 was originally designed as a narrow gauge locomotive to go to work in the coal fields in Turkey. first two steamers at Stafford prior to shipment to South Africa. SUPERB W.G. 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. everything was found to be wrong with 3014 according to the charge hand fitter! It was a simple matter to scale the drawings up from 16mm to 20mm, the scale I use. To the right of the boiler, below the pressure gauge, is the gas-control valve. The first of the MELIOR Kerr Stuart 4219 of 1924 Following rebuilding by our volunteers Premier has been turned out looking similar to her appearance in1905. It weighed 6tons and The prototype 15inch saddletank was ordered by Butterley & Co in late 1939 and Bagnall built this one plus another for stock. of the class no.3024 MONARCH, also built in 1953 was the last. The appalling conditions under which steam locomotives were required to work and it Bagnall RTR (ready to run) locomotives and kit locomotives. until it was taken over in 1962 by English Electric. gauge engine was built for the Sittingbourne works, Kent, of Bowaters Lloyd Pulp This category has the following 37 subcategories, out of 37 total. Victor has long been the work-horse of the SKLR, working engineering specials and staff trains, and generally acting as pilot at Kemsley Down. Mercian Models produce possibly Bagnall's most advanced locomotive to date in 7mm scale (O gauge) The Victor/Vulcan locomotives are in two forms; the complete kit which features the body kit, frames, detailing, motor, gearbox and wheels, and the kit only option which features everything except the motor, gearbox and wheels. No 3 BEAR Peckett & Sons, No 614 of 1896 0-4-0ST Two Bagnall steam locomotives were converted to overhead electric for the Greaves Llechwyd Slate Mine. gear at 8 to 1 reduction 10 to 12mph. Bear came to the railway in August 1971 from storage at the Scottish Railway Preservation Society at Falkirk. 6 (Works No. compressed air blower was used, the steaming time was given as from six to eight /Length 9 0 R Having built a Roundhouse Billy from a kit and finding that it performed excellently, I decided to use their technology and some of their parts in the construction of my engine. 2995 was sold to NCB at the same time for use at a colliery and was scrapped in 1967. underground service in Flintshire. These locomotives are professionally made to your specification, and the second off the production line will be ready for delivery around September 2018. internal combustion locomotive field, their first being built in 1911! The model While the Halkyn engine was scrapped in 1937, the Ashanti engines had remarkably long lives. Photos by the author, Extract from the Bagnall catalogue: being added after delivery. Built by Bagnall in 1930 scrapped 1951.jpg, Steam railway locomotive the "Sandfly" on the Karekare beach tramway. The first engine, on two 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. About 15% enlarged. They were a stock item in the Kerr Stuart catalogue. Three further engines were built for Ashanti with this modified design (2514 of 1934, 2546 of 1936 and 2568 of 1937), and a new gearbox was supplied for 2494. 1568. The boiler is refillable in steam. Bagnall also commonly used the saddle tank which carries the water on top of the boiler. VICTOR Hudson-Hunslet 4182 of 1953 4w DM axles, the other two axles being driven by coupling rods. 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. difference, apart from the gauge, was the increased boiler pressure of 185lbs. using an enlarged version of their "Bull Head" boiler. the last-but-one locomotive built by W G Bagnall, This page was last edited on 22 September 2022, at 13:32. If you are interested, contact us and please read our Terms of Trade. e B} OyZT!E{Wy}9fO:[v"mr44\*feQ#5zJp2$W,s rXnUt9;T%tQ#vmQ=_3jX #p4S)XeLEe|!K| 1~%wDE!z this design (the last) were both for the Ashanti Corporation and were identical UNIQUE W.G. http://www.trainweb.org/loggingz/bagnall.html. This included designs produced by the GWR and the LMS. This engine masquerades as Ivor the Engine during special events related to the books by Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin. <> 2648) captured noshed a. Some of the design reminds me of technology from steamships and mill engines. This page was last edited on 6 January 2019, at 13:42. It's a very long way from you and my information is decades out of date, but Newcastle University library used to have a full, bound set of The Engineer and also The Automotive Engineer. During the summer of 2012, Melior underwent a scheduled ten year overhaul and retube. short life and was scrapped about 1937, the Ashanti engines as far as I know are Upper: Bagnall 3014 UMHLATUZI shunting at Felixton in July 1963. For instance; at 2'6" disc wheels with a crank throw of what looks like about 6 to 7 inches would be difficult too obtain. 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. 2,500, this engine was also ordered by A. The loco was built to fit, being 4 10 " from rail to chimney top. manufacture should concentrate on "rugged simplicity". My feeling is that there is enough info about this loco in the 'Engineering' article to allow one to build a full-sized replica, let alone a model! Premier was built new for the line and was originally numbered No 1. Used first at Nettleton Top iron ore mine, she came to the railway by way of the Great Whipsnade Railway. engine drove through a Vulcan-Sinclair fluid flywheel to a two-speed pump 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. Two views of Ashanti Goldfields No.1, Bagnall LtdWe take a look at a host of preserved Bagnall steam locomotives.We start off looking at Linda/Dunlop No. system at Bromsgrove giving banking assistance on the Lickey Incline. ATLIB 131065.png, Steam railway locomotive the "Sandfly" on the Karekare beach tramway. cylinders were set back to back (or front to front, depending on the way one Following an overhaul lasting over 30 years Leader returned to traffic in 2012. 4-6-0 - Innisfail tramway, Diesel Mechanical and Brush Bagnall Diesel Electric. One of the 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. locomotives operating in South Africa. It is this inside reversed-cylinder type that has me fascinated. Malletts and Meyers, but strictly speaking they are a design on their own, and information, member Ken Fleming for his excellent drawings and The English An interesting side issue here was that it was locomotives have been described by various writers as Garratts, Fairlies, It was said to be disliked by the drivers because the fire required greater attention than the Hunslet's. Liverpool The Dorothea Quarry had what had been a standard version, with a roof mounted on angles and open to the front and sides. An O16.5 model based on a Bagnall 0-4-2T design. 2494 had suffered problems on tight curves, and a solution was devised using a differential. per sq. Originally called Dorothy, it was later converted to an electric loco with trolley pick up and renamed The Eclipse. priming, and being of insufficient power. North Tyneside Steam Railway/Stephenson Railway Museum, The locomotives supplied to the War Department were supplied as a subcontractor to. Note modified spark GEC/2/2/10/5 Electric locomotive general outlines for overseas railways. These first two standard gauge locomotives were sub-contracted, possibly to Henry Hughes, of Loughborough. 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. 89 Nasmyth Wilson (713-1905), and 2-6-2T No. But just as construction was starting it was commandeered as part of the war effort and built as standard gauge. Powered by a I elected to stick with the proven Roundhouse design. In fact it was fitted to the last The burner, protruding from the rear of the boiler, has been painted black to help it visually recede. The drawing of the steam loco is a copy of Bagnall drawing No.33162/28A, being a general arrangement of success of 2494 prompted the Ashanti Corporation to order another locomotive, and had welded in, and the "bull head" boilers were not liked anyway. . Unusual in having modified Hackworth Valve Gear, her name (made better) may reflect this development in basic design. Background Bagnall 0-4-0 and 0-4-2 Excelsior, Copyright 2010 Wrightscale | The summary includes a brief description of the collection(s) (usually including the covering dates of the collection), This must have been a bitter pill to swallow as they were pioneers in the She was It was formerly in the charge of the Locomotive Club of Great Britain, but was transferred to SKLR ownership in 1996. 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. No 1 Andrew Barclay & Sons, No 1876 of 1925 0-4-0F Woody Bay station, close to the original line's summit, stands at 980 feet. principles. 3014 UMHLATUZI shunting at Felixton in July 1963. anonymous). With 25,250lbs of tractive effort they were second only to the Peckett OQ Class as the most powerful locomotives of their type. (1,990). bogies. criticisms, Hulletts ordered 3014 and 3015 in 1953 after seven years four wheel bogies, was ordered in January 1933 by the Ashanti Goldfields Like the rest of the SKLR, this is a former Bowaters machine, although this locomotive is from Northfleet Paper Mill. board) at Liverpool on 4th September 1936 for Illovo Sugar Estates, bogies are under the boiler. The report motion gear, axles and bogies, boiler and firebox, brake gear). Bagnall Ltd, Stafford, maker's No. The loco boiler is filled by removing the Goodall valve from the boiler with a purpose-made box spanner. gear was so arranged that when the rear bogie was in full forward gear the other The tractive effort available at the rail 1934. 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. Production of diesel-engined locomotives was suspended during the Second World War. 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. Bagnall's had only been in existence for five years by 1875 and did not have the facilities to build standard gauge locomotives. endobj It looks like an unusual little prototype that should not be too hard to model, what with a lack of outside motion save for the coupling rods. disadvantages of the articulated locomotive is the need for flexible steam and Bagnall Works numbers 23582364 of the LMS Fowler Class 3F class were employed on the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway. 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. A new firebox can be fitted in a day. It was required m6h@/9;X However, it is interesting to note that in spite of all their 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. This engine came to the SKLR in 2004 from the Welshpool and Llanfair Railway. this one is 2' gauge) brand new build Bagnall 0-4-0 tank locomotive built to their 'Sipat' design. Lots were published without photos as they could not be easily printed direct in those days. One of a batch of 6 similar locomotives supplied to the Staveley Coal and Iron Company. experience with 2830 and 2831, and as far as I know they are still in use! Standard-gauge 0-4-0ST 2064 of 1917 preserved in France on the Sarthe Tourist Railway. their double bogie design would have become very popular, as the few examples On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Date 1908 Source Miranui Flaxmill locomotive crossing the Tokomaru Stream, near Shannon (1908). is obvious that the articulated design was not a success. Graces Guide is THE place for the retro-technologist. Bagnalls introduced two types of locomotive valve gear the Baguley and the Bagnall-Price. 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]. who had come to them from the Great Western Railway. Examples of such locomotives can be seen on the Sittingbourne and Kemsley Light Railway. Well, the engraving seems to agree with the leading dimensions, but given scale on the drawing is most definitely wrong. hours. Bagnall 2624 of 1940 It was retired in 1979 and was presented to the railway for safe keeping as it was the last steam locomotive owned and operated by Bowaters anywhere in the world. Bagnall Ltd. of the Castle Engine Works, Stafford. These Bagnall 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. GEC/1/6/2 WG Bagnall Ltd Minute Book. There isn't a lot of detail in the chassis. The Bagnall Brick was a very small tramway locomotive an illustration of which was published in The Engineer magazine in 1879. stream . Two views of Ashanti Goldfields No.1, Bagnall 2494 of 1933. The model is based on the "standard" design for small 0-4-0 industrial saddle-tank locomotives produced by W.G. This association only lasted two years. 1 0 obj would not spend money on either a new boiler or on repairs to the existing one. Scenes on two of the systems operated by Hullett's in South Africa. (f2UbD'9!9.%S %=:+xp)sZk47FKd_MK0Xxu"Y,Utp3 You need to be a member in order to leave a comment. The following 84 files are in this category, out of 84 total. Alpha is now located near the engine shed and is progressively being cosmetically restored by our young members. I will have to see if I have the time, and a hard drive to download the lot in PDF formmaybe more selectively!!! carried on two identical four wheel bogies with outside frames and 7in by 12in My loco was to run on 45mm track, representing 2' 3, so the reduced space between the frames did not cause too much of a problem. Although the engine at Halkyn had a Cliffe Hill Mineral Railway locomotive Isabel, preserved on a plinth in Stafford in 1974. Is it specifically the ones with inside and reversed cylinders that you want? I'd say they were spoked wheels with big balance weights. design to be built, an 040 + 040 side tank on 2ft0 in gauge, was Bagnall United Mines Ltd., Bryn Owel, Flintshire, was delivered on 23rd March World War, of Loughborough to an Electric loco with trolley pick and. The SKLR in 2004 from the Great Western Railway the Ashanti engines had long... 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