their double bogie design would have become very popular, as the few examples The design of this class of locomotives is derived from the Kerr Stuart Baretto class loco Superior, supplied to the line in 1920. There is a good drawing of her by Roy c. Link (Who has made a model of her. drive, as before, through two-speed epicyclic gearbox. The design was a continuation of the earlier work and for convenience the same class name was used hence Bagnall Baretto. Website Design Beamtwenty3. The boiler is refillable in steam. k?^&N
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]FuQNn_s,gZc-RHrx+g\d*,B7,!(|iPS@j&De6 Ga08p8|C Examples of such locomotives can be seen on the Sittingbourne and Kemsley Light Railway. Examples of such locomotives can be seen on the Sittingbourne & Kemsley Light Railway. pressure. I have only included standard gauge locomotives which are preserved in Britain. arrester as latterly fitted. Servos are all in the cab, the batteries are in the roof, and the receiver is under the cab, between the frames. This page was last edited on 6 January 2019, at 13:42. United Mines Ltd., Bryn Owel, Flintshire, was delivered on 23rd March In addition to locomotives, Bagnalls constructed rolling stock and trackwork enabling the complete equipping of light railways. Lagos Government Railway, 1912. Details Measurements: undefined Identifier: . 2831) for Sir John L. Hullett & Sons Ltd., for use at the Darnall and Felixton (1,990). 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. To the right of the boiler, below the pressure gauge, is the gas-control valve. Constructed by WG Bagnall of Stafford (p. 38).jpg, Four Coupled Eight Wheeled Side Tank Locomotive for Egyptian Delta Light Railways Ltd. up to 60ft radius. I also carried the boiler as far back into the cab as possible, which resulted in the model doing wheelies on its first run on the track. endobj Polar Bear came to Amberley Museum and Heritage Centre when the Brockham collection was transferred there in 1982. opinion that, had it not been for the conditions forced upon them by the War, That is the only known photograph of WOTTON, but there were several engravings that appeared contemporaneously. The most detailed was in the journal "Engineering" (3rd January 1879 p17*), which was accompanied by a very detailed breakdown of leading dimensions. Main effort is now concentrated on overhauling the boiler including replacing the old steel firebox with a new all welded replacement. 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. It weighed 6tons and This 2ft 6in It was a simple matter to scale the drawings up from 16mm to 20mm, the scale I use. 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. Bagnall Works numbers 23582364 of the LMS Fowler Class 3F class were employed on the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway. This engine masquerades as Ivor the Engine during special events related to the books by Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin. As ever, we'd like to thank David Fletcher for his superb drawings, illustrating the livery options. TRIUMPH W.G. The model In 1961 English Electric Co acquired W. H. Dorman and Co. Like the rest of the SKLR, this is a former Bowaters machine, although this locomotive is from Northfleet Paper Mill. 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. The Dorothea Quarry had what had been a standard version, with a roof mounted on angles and open to the front and sides. Railway Locomotive Keywords: W G Bagnall Created Date: 6/18/2018 7:42:04 PM . using an enlarged version of their "Bull Head" boiler. only place which had a good word to say was the Renishaw estate where 2545 was 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. Bagnalls introduced several novel type of locomotive valve gear including the Bagnall-Price and the Baguley. Constructed by WG Bagnall of Stafford (Plate IX).jpg, Foxfield Railway - Bagnall No. Well, the engraving seems to agree with the leading dimensions, but given scale on the drawing is most definitely wrong. Bagnalls worked with Siemens at the Siemens Stafford works to supply the electrical equipment for the locomotives. [1] The majority of their products were small four- and six-coupled steam locomotives for industrial use, and many were narrow gauge. Provision was made for erecting two locomotives at a time with the 2 year target of building one diesel-electric locomotive per week in addition to steam locomotive production.[2]. It will be While the shunters were made in Stafford, the main line locomotives were made in Loughborough.[11]. . Status: Static exhibit until major overhaul can be financed. GEC/1/6/2 WG Bagnall Ltd Minute Book. in. Following a visit to the Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway in August/September 2017, Superb has been turned and now her chimney points towards Sittingbourne, the same as all the other steam locomotives. 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. If you are interested, contact us and please read our Terms of Trade. . 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. Collection. who had come to them from the Great Western Railway. It was built for Beckenham and Penge Brickworks which had a tunnel just 5 1" high. She is named after the original owner of Sittingbourne Mill. This information will help us make improvements to the website. 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
Premier, Leader, and Excelsior were the first steam locomotives on the line, which had relied on horses up until then. These included The Vulcan Foundry, Robert Stephenson and Hawthorns and W. G. Bagnall. They also used marine (circular) fireboxes on narrow gauge engines, a design that was cheap but needed a different firing technique. 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. Prices (2009) 0-4-0 850, 0-4-2 900. Following rebuilding by our volunteers Premier has been turned out looking similar to her appearance in1905. typical of all the class. 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. first two steamers at Stafford prior to shipment to South Africa. 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. Bagnalls first locomotive was produced in 1876, the company going on to produce machines for collieries and overseas plantations. Overhaul is expected to start very soon. locomotives, however, are not the only Bagnall articulated machines, being W.G. [5] They also used marine (circular) fireboxes on narrow gauge engines, a design that was cheap but needed a different firing technique. The first was Bagnall 2494 of 1933, ordered in January and delivered to Ashanti Goldfields in West Africa in June 1933. loco 3024 as supplied to Bowater Lloyds. Upper photograph is of Bagnall 2544, the lower being Bagnall 2545. The boiler is of special design, can be readily washed out and examined. *Link here:http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/images/c/cb/Eg18790103.pdf. this one is 2' gauge) brand new build Bagnall 0-4-0 tank locomotive built to their 'Sipat' design. In addition to building locomotives to designs produced by W G Bagnall the company also built engines as contractors to organisations who had designed them. This category has the following 37 subcategories, out of 37 total. realised that the articulated design was not a great success, a fact borne out The resulting report exposed the bogies. 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. 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. Is there any more information available about this locomotive? 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 . Sixteen (68018-20 & 68047-59) of these were bought by the LNER in 1945-46. power output was 57bhp at 1000rpm, 62bhp at 1100rpm, and 73bhp at 1300rpm. Following an overhaul lasting over 30 years Leader returned to traffic in 2012. On test at full load the fuel consumption was 38lbs per bhp hour. years service was abandoned owing to high maintenance costs, proneness to Related people. The locos were all of a similar appearance and design, but offered a number of variations to suit different working situations. >> Scenes on two of the systems operated by Hullett's in South Africa. Copyright 2022 RMweb.co.uk 4 Bagnall (2025-1916).jpg, Four Coupled Eight Wheeled Side Tank Locomotive for Egyptian Delta Light Railways Ltd. 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 Stafford locomotive construction company started in 1875 when William Gordon Bagnall took over the millwright business of Massey and Hill. Scenes on two of the systems operated by Hullett's in South Africa. At Felixton gauge engine was built for the Sittingbourne works, Kent, of Bowaters Lloyd Pulp The Two views of Ashanti Goldfields No.1, Bagnall 2494 of 1933. The first railway locomotive was built the following year. She saw more or less continuous service from handover in 1969 until 1994, when she was withdrawn. The boiler work was contracted out to NNR Engineering. by Bill Winter Bagnall articulated locomotives most people will think of MONARCH, now happily principles. later). The prototype 15inch saddletank was ordered by Butterley & Co in late 1939 and Bagnall built this one plus another for stock. A consultation with the experts on the SteamModelLoco Yahoo group suggested the problem was caused by cooling of the steam in the external steam pipe and/or contamination of the water by residues from the silver brazing. The first of the mounted on a main frame built up from "H" section girders, the whole being The loco is still running in and has not yet had a run under full working conditions but my expectations are that I will get a run of around 35 minutes on a fill of gas. It was supplied new with a full cab to the Llechwedd Quarry in 1899, works No. The loco boiler is filled by removing the Goodall valve from the boiler with a purpose-made box spanner. Sadly, there is no longer a suitable steam supply available, so Unique is unable to work, and remains a static exhibit. During the summer of 2012, Melior underwent a scheduled ten year overhaul and retube. endobj Made for stock. The photographs below show both the current demonstrator . An O16.5 model based on a Bagnall 0-4-2T design. is obvious that the articulated design was not a success. Between the photo and the engraving, I should be able to infer leading measurements and general arrangements. Would make a nice 1:24 scale model on 32mm gauge. 3014 UMHLATUZI shunting at Felixton in July 1963. detail drawings for each locomotive component, eg. When the saddle tank is in place the extra diameter is not obvious. Direct forging of the part on a forge hammer. The reason for the development of the articulated steam locomotive was Bagnall 2216 of 1923 EDWARD LLOYD Ruston & Hornsby 435403 of 1961 0-4-0DH In recent years she has undergone a major overhaul and rebuild of her clutch and gearbox. 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. would like to thank Messrs. W.A. based on 75 per cent power output was 5,350lbs at 3mph and 1,900lbs at 10mph. ASHANTI No.2, in January 1934. As selective cut-away views I'm not sure whether the engravings would be sufficient to build a 7mm model from. endstream The report 2995 was sold to NCB at the same time for use at a colliery and was scrapped in 1967. creation of Bagnalls senior draughtsman at the time, MrI. 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. and flexible to negotiate the very sharp curves and severe gradients to be found Island of Anglesey, North Wales, UK The inverted saddle tank over the front axle introduces and interesting possibility for mounting a motor as it is much larger than the firebox. AC.Farr, 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! One of the Paraffin locomotives were one of Bagnall's specialities and appear in most catalogues that Bagnall created. \Y2| (2&&Z~Al" DNyX{a8_[;!qH[(,$Hyym*V3v7,0XiP tysLRcB" W. G. Bagnall was a locomotive manufacturer from Stafford, England which was founded in 1875 and operated Unusual in having modified Hackworth Valve Gear, her name (made better) may reflect this development in basic design. Of these none have been preserved. What a fascinating little prototype! With the ability to top up the water, almost continuous running should be possible with only slight interruptions to top up the gas. For more information on the Bagnall, click one of the links below. The loco uses Roundhouse cylinders, burner, and gas tank, with wheels from the Basic series locos. Preserved Austerity Locomotives built to the Hunslet Design. 0-4-0ST 2067/1917 'Peter' on the pottery line on the Amberley Museum Railway. drawn were that the standard articulated design was not sufficiently robust to [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. 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. 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. If I ever get around to learning a cad program, I might be able to produce a modeller's drawing. The boiler was worn out and the owners However, it is interesting to note that in spite of all their & H. Macnay Ltd, for delivery to window.dfp_ad_id = '/21784358039/RW_Web_Forum/RW_Web_Forum_UK_Prototype'; By [The special boiler referred to was of a marine type popular with Bagnall. This arrangement was made necessary by the fact that the Here's a link to another early Bagnall engraving -http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/images/5/5f/Im18800625E-Bagnall1.jpg - ("KENT" b/n 265 of 1879). GEC/2/1 Drawing registers. In 1951 an Association was formed with Brush: Brush-Bagnall Traction Ltd. 3j.>1K-fCX$7%2ETd&EY h:^U9)'1CRW]ooD3#M?Y1%med.v34 h&MI
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