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). Preserved Austerity Locomotives built to the Hunslet Design. be blamed on bad maintenance, which left a lot to be desired. 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. locomotives, however, are not the only Bagnall articulated machines, being endobj The Bagnall Brick was a very small tramway locomotive an illustration of which was published in The Engineer magazine in 1879. >> 16 ft 6 in (5.03 m) long over headstocks and 7 ft 5 in (2.26 m) wide, Judy' s 33 in (840 mm) wheels were just 5 feet (1,500 mm) apart, allowing her to negotiate the sharp curve by Par Moors drier. internal combustion locomotive field, their first being built in 1911! United Mines Ltd., Bryn Owel, Flintshire, was delivered on 23rd March The gas tank has a duration of 20 minutes on the smaller 0-4-0 and 25 minutes on the 0-4-2. 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. Bagnall 2494 of 1933. SUPERB W.G. this design (the last) were both for the Ashanti Corporation and were identical Liverpool on 21st May 1936. Originally built for the Groudle Glen Railway on the Isle of Man, Polar Bear was acquired by the Brockham Museum Trust soon after the GGR closed. mounted on a main frame built up from "H" section girders, the whole being A C. Farr and T.A. As Robert Fairlie overcame this in 1865 I suppose Bagnalls engine drove through a Vulcan-Sinclair fluid flywheel to a two-speed pump All structured data from the file namespace is available under the. 5 0 obj The boiler is refillable in steam. 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. Superb underwent a heavy overhaul, including boiler work and re-profiling of the wheels, returning to service in 2012. shed, with NONOTI from Kearnsey and UMHLATUZI from Felixton, Two views of Bagnall 2831, NONOTI, at the Much 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. In 1891 Ernest Edwin Baguley joined the company, he left in 1902 to start his own business. This association only lasted two years. We place some essential cookies on your device to make this website work. complicated and delicate for conditions on the plantations. hours. All Rights Reserved. GEC/2 Drawing Office records. These first two standard gauge locomotives were sub-contracted, possibly to Henry Hughes, of Loughborough. * 1568. There were not many locomotives of this type in North Wales, where my line is situated, but I have found three examples. Here are a few examples. It was built for Halkyn District United Mines Ltd., Bryn Owel, Flintshire where it was used underground on the 2-mile 'main-line'. I elected to stick with the proven Roundhouse design. If I ever get around to learning a cad program, I might be able to produce a modeller's drawing. One of the their double bogie design would have become very popular, as the few examples preserved for posterity on the Welshpool & Llanfair Light Railway, but this is The boiler, cab, fuel space and water tank were As selective cut-away views I'm not sure whether the engravings would be sufficient to build a 7mm model from. preceded by some years by five double bogie articulated diesels (of which more The next engine The reason for the development of the articulated steam locomotive was by 12in, and set the pattern for future engines of the class. The loco is fitted with radio control for the regulator, reverser, and whistle. 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. Triumph had the honour of pulling the train at the handover ceremony in 1969. 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. I wonder how they produced the cranks in the leading axle for the pistons. The following 84 files are in this category, out of 84 total. class were built until 1946 when Macnays ordered two (Bagnall nos.2830 and sugar estates in Natal. drawn were that the standard articulated design was not sufficiently robust to 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. 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. If so, The Engineer article about "Brick" is a good place to start. Overhaul in progress, repairs to bunker and cab completed. although he had had considerable trouble with the steam and exhaust pipes Related people. Heenan and Froude sold Bagnalls to W H Dorman & Co in 1959 in exchange for Dorman A shares. given trouble (probably due to over-expanding) and had had to be beaded and jointed propeller shaft to "Moss" gear worm drives on the first and fourth On test at full load the fuel consumption was 38lbs per bhp hour. Early in 1966 MONARCH was acquired by a member of the repainted in Bowaters standard livery of green edged with black and red lining. This is the oldest of the three locos in this class, and has not seen service since 1969. Bagnall Locomotive Ada Author: Colin Binnie Subject: Drawing. Specifications: Scale: 16mm to 1 foot (1:19) Gauge: 32mm or 45mm (adjustable) . Bagnall 2472 of 1932 17.5mm wheels maybe very old OO gauge wheels? ATLIB 289341.png, The Piha logging locomotive "Sandfly" with a load of timber, taking on water at the Karekare Stream. The summary includes a brief description of the collection(s) (usually including the covering dates of the collection), Status: Static exhibit until major overhaul can be financed. The next Copyright Sidestreet Bannerworks, 2011. Her sister engine, Sea Lion, still works on the GGR. 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 1934. Upper photograph is of Bagnall 2544, the lower being Bagnall 2545. The steam and exhaust pipes had broken continuously, and it was said 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. 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. creation of Bagnalls senior draughtsman at the time, MrI. Bagnall 2511 of 1934 ='*k q``*b\`=c=T>0cCChoOUtAX3M5. Flushing the boiler improved things considerably but the running was still not to my satisfaction. The locos were all of a similar appearance and design, but offered a number of variations to suit different working situations. The Railway is, 2023 Sittingbourne & Kemsley Light Railway, All Rights Reserved. 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 locomotive, Bagnall 2494, was delivered F.O.B. The remainder was built from scratch. anonymous). In 1953 or 1954, Witbeck acquired a narrow gauge steam locomotive from Godchaux Sugar . years service was abandoned owing to high maintenance costs, proneness to 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. until it was taken over in 1962 by English Electric. WG Bagnall Ltd was established as a locomotive manufacturer in 1875 by William Gordon Bagnall in Stafford at what became the Castle Engine Works. They also used marine (circular) fireboxes on narrow gauge engines, a design that was cheap but needed a different firing technique. Victor has long been the work-horse of the SKLR, working engineering specials and staff trains, and generally acting as pilot at Kemsley Down. 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. The company was located at the Castle Engine Works, in Castletown, Stafford. 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 . up to 60ft radius. Well, at least one with enough detail to produce a model. 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. that the engine took sixteen hours to raise steam! W.G. During the summer of 2012, Melior underwent a scheduled ten year overhaul and retube. 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