Premier was built new for the line and was originally numbered No 1. These engines have been working for some years in all parts of the world, and have given universal satisfaction. Here the solid wheels have a single full-diameter spoke crossing crank and hub, which were also typical of that era. Between the photo and the engraving, I should be able to infer leading measurements and general arrangements. 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. Below: Looking down on the engine. GEC/1/6/2 WG Bagnall Ltd Minute Book. The next two of No more of the Gardner 6 cylinder diesel engine typical of their design even to this day, the 7 1 / 4 " Bagnall Narrow Gauge Locomotive. Direct forging of the part on a forge hammer. drawn were that the standard articulated design was not sufficiently robust to manufacture should concentrate on "rugged simplicity". 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. The factory has been demolished. A block of lead was cast and fitted behind the front beam to cure this unseemly behaviour. http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/images/0/08/Er18790103.pdf. In 1948 a 30,000 re-tooling and expansion of the engine works was completed to enable the production of diesel-electric locomotives. 17.5mm wheels maybe very old OO gauge wheels? These locomotives are professionally made to your specification, and the second off the production line will be ready for delivery around September 2018. Scenes on two of the systems operated by Hullett's in South Africa. By the time that Alpha was built, the Kerr Stuart Company had closed, and some designs had been acquired by Bagnalls. this design (the last) were both for the Ashanti Corporation and were identical per sq. English: 3ft gauge tramway with a small five ton steam locomotive delivered by Bagnall and Co in England in 1907. 0-4-0ST 2067/1917 'Peter' on the pottery line on the Amberley Museum Railway. later). 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.) On test at full load the fuel consumption was 38lbs per bhp hour. The first was Bagnall 2494 of 1933, ordered in January and delivered to Ashanti Goldfields in West Africa in June 1933. The first engine, on two Standard-gauge 0-4-0ST 2064 of 1917 preserved in France on the Sarthe Tourist Railway. 2544, ordered by A & H Macnay Ltd., agents; it was delivered F.O.B. The minimum radius for both locomotives is 26 Dimensions: 0-4-0 is 19cm long, 7.5cm wide and 12.5cm high, having a mass of 1.25kg; the 0-4-2 is 23cm long, same height and width and mass 1.35kg. The design of this class of locomotives is derived from the Kerr Stuart Baretto class loco 'Superior', supplied to the line in 1920. They did, in fact, Collection. first two steamers at Stafford prior to shipment to South Africa. creation of Bagnalls senior draughtsman at the time, MrI. 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. Although the engine at Halkyn had a But just as construction was starting it was commandeered as part of the war effort and built as standard gauge. about 1890 up to the time production ceased. The boiler, cab, fuel space and water tank were During the summer of 2012, Melior underwent a scheduled ten year overhaul and retube. underground service in Flintshire. The first railway locomotive was built the following year. 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. Palmerston North City Library, digitisation ID 2007N Fx91 FLA 0636.jpg, Model of train engine Mysore Rail Museum.JPG, Old steam loco outside Howrah Junction.jpg, Sawmill locomotive at Pakihi ATLIB 336147.png, Standard metre gauge locomotive for Mysore Railway built by W. G. Bagnell Ltd..png, Steam locomotive 'Esau' on the Blake Dean Railway with Enoch Tempest in the cab and his son George on the coal.jpg, Steam locomotive at Briandale mine at the 10 mile . In conclusion I in Stafford by the then well known firm of Dorman & Co Ltd. The Wotton/Brill Tramway was not far from where I live and I've walked all of the route that can be walked, and comparing with photos, it is surprising how little the area has changed in the past 120+ years. For details of preserved fireless locomotives built by W G Bagnall go to Fireless Locomotives. cracking and had replaced all of them. 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. Cliffe Hill Mineral Railway locomotive Isabel, preserved on a plinth in Stafford in 1974. We place some essential cookies on your device to make this website work. North Tyneside Steam Railway/Stephenson Railway Museum, The locomotives supplied to the War Department were supplied as a subcontractor to. It does suggest holes at radii perpendicular to the crank lines - here's a better illustration from a contemporary locomotive ("BRICK", b/n 210 of 1879):http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/images/d/d9/Im1879Ev28-p017.jpg. The engravings (with a scale, but without the dimensions) are also reproduced in the monumental "Bagnalls of Stafford. power output was 57bhp at 1000rpm, 62bhp at 1100rpm, and 73bhp at 1300rpm. The doubt caused by the brake cross beam striking the exhaust pipe. 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. Bagnalls worked with Siemens at the Siemens Stafford works to supply the electrical equipment for the locomotives. % Graces Guide is THE place for the retro-technologist. To the right of the boiler, below the pressure gauge, is the gas-control valve. 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. 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 photographs below show both the current demonstrator . being added after delivery. MELIOR Kerr Stuart 4219 of 1924 Sign up for a new account in our community. * requirements and fired them to their liking. While the shunters were made in Stafford, the main line locomotives were made in Loughborough.[11]. It worked here until 1949 when it was stored out of service. GEC/2 Drawing Office records. The boiler is refillable in steam. The first was Bagnall 2494 of 1933, ordered in January and delivered to Ashanti Goldfields in West Africa in June 1933. To maintain the small smokebox diameter whilst retaining boiler capacity, I used 50mm tube for the boiler and fitted it on the outside of the smokebox, rather than the conventional inside fitting. Servos are all in the cab, the batteries are in the roof, and the receiver is under the cab, between the frames. Finally, the However I understand that these have a profile more suited to EM gauge than standard 0 so I'm not sure if they would work. See p4 for a "build it yourself" guide to a narrow gauge one. 2995 was sold to NCB at the same time for use at a colliery and was scrapped in 1967. Disc wheels? to double the power output whilst keeping the locomotive sufficiently compact %PDF-1.4 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. Specifications: Scale: 16mm to 1 foot (1:19) Gauge: 32mm or 45mm (adjustable) . principles. No 3 BEAR Peckett & Sons, No 614 of 1896 0-4-0ST I have only included standard gauge locomotives which are preserved in Britain. Named RENISHAW No.5 and costing about Prices (2009) 0-4-0 850, 0-4-2 900. Bagnalls carried out a survey, under actual working conditions, of all their its new sister, 2514, which was delivered F.O.B. was in full back gear, both sets of valve gear being operated by a common They currently run at the Stephenson Railway Museum and the Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway. priming, and being of insufficient power. Here are a few examples. This locomotive will be reproduced in model form by Hornby in 2020. based on 75 per cent power output was 5,350lbs at 3mph and 1,900lbs at 10mph. It had been displayed on Bagnall's stand at the Royal . Both locomotives survive and are at the Statfold Barn Railway. 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. There are a few custom kits as well. 5 0 obj Dodgy copy of an 1878 catalogue illustration reproduced in the book mentioned above. Background Bagnall 0-4-0 and 0-4-2 Excelsior, Copyright 2010 Wrightscale | Welshpool & Llanfair Railway Preservation Society (who wishes to remain The first run The next articulated diesel (2498 of 1934) was a smaller version of the Ashanti locomotive and used a Deutz engine. m6h@/9;X Enthusiasts have reinstated almost a mile of the iconic former 20-mile route, which the Southern Railway . looked at it!). Leader was built new for the line and was originally numbered No.2. ='*k q``*b\`=c=T>0cCChoOUtAX3M5. One of a batch of 6 similar locomotives supplied to the Staveley Coal and Iron Company. The summary includes a brief description of the collection(s) (usually including the covering dates of the collection), That NZ Bagnall is definitely of the same general arrangement as the Brill Tramway one, fascinating that it is 3'6" gauge. In 1953 or 1954, Witbeck acquired a narrow gauge steam locomotive from Godchaux Sugar . MONARCH worked The great disadvantage . are more on line? Smith, I. short life and was scrapped about 1937, the Ashanti engines as far as I know are Status:In 2019 the locomotive was withdrawn from service for a boiler overhaul, this is currently underway at Kemsley Down. BARTON HALL Hunslet 6651 of 1965 4w DH ATLIB 289341.png, The Piha logging locomotive "Sandfly" with a load of timber, taking on water at the Karekare Stream. Bagnall also manufactured electric locomotives. The next The frames are strong and well stayed; the working parts good, accessible, and easily cleaned and repaired. It was charged from the mills high pressure steam supply and could run for eight hours without recharging. She is built to a scale of 5 inches to the foot, producing a very powerful locomotive of just under half full size. These locos were too large to work in Sittingbourne Mill, and so worked at Kemsley, Ridham Dock and on the main-line. All structured data from the file namespace is available under the. Bagnall tyres were not so "weldable" as Hunslets! It was powered by a Deutz diesel engine of 22 to 24bhp at 700rpm, with the Copyright 2022 RMweb.co.uk WG Bagnall Ltd was established as a locomotive manufacturer in 1875 by William Gordon Bagnall in Stafford at what became the Castle Engine Works. When speaking of If you are interested, contact us and please read our Terms of Trade. privacy policy, Engineering: Mechanical > Railway equipment, GB/NNAF/C123672 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/B5946 ). 2648) captured noshed a. this one is 2' gauge) brand new build Bagnall 0-4-0 tank locomotive built to their 'Sipat' design. Bagnalls first locomotive was produced in 1876, the company going on to produce machines for collieries and overseas plantations. up to 60ft radius. 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