Barry Railway Class D
Barry Railway Class D
| Type and origin |
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| Power type |
Steam |
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| Designer |
John Waddington Mann |
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| Builder |
Sharp, Stewart & Co. |
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| Build date |
1889 and 1897 |
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| Total produced |
4 |
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| Career |
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| Operators |
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| Delivered |
1889 and 1897 |
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| Withdrawn |
1927–1930 |
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| Disposition |
All scrapped |
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Barry Railway Class D were 0-8-0T steam tender engines of the Barry Railway in South Wales. They were built to a standard Sharp, Stewart and Company design modified by John Waddington Mann, the Chief Mechanical Engineer for the Swedish & Norwegian Railway. In fact, 20 of these locomotives were ordered by this railway. However the company ran into severe financial difficulty with the result that only one and a half locomotives were paid for by the S&N.
Barry purchases
Two of the locomotives, S&N 25 and 26, never reached overseas but were retained by Sharp, Stewart. They were later sold to the Barry Railway in October 1889 and became numbers 35 and 36. Two other locomotives, S&N 5 and 8, were seized by bailiffs in December 1891. There then followed a long drawn out legal dispute between Sharp, Stewart and Swedish & Norwegian Railway. It was not until May 1895 that the Supreme Court in Sweden found in favour of Sharp, Stewart and the engines in question were returned to the manufacturers. In late 1896, they were offered to the Barry Railway who took delivery of them in March and April 1897. The two locomotives were numbered 92 and 93.
Traffic duties
On arrival, the locomotives did very little main line duty but were confined to pulling heavy coal trains from Cadoxton Yard to Barry Docks. However, in 1909, 92 and 93 were assigned to haul mineral trains from the coal pits on the Rhymney branch of the Brecon and Merthyr to Cadoxton Yard and were mechanically modified for the purpose.
Withdrawal
The locomotives passed to the Great Western Railway in 1922 but were withdrawn between 1927 and 1930. None survived into British Railways ownership and none have been preserved.
Numbering
| Year | Quantity | Manufacturer | Serial numbers | Barry numbers | GWR numbers | Notes |
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| 1886 | 1 | Sharp Stewart | 3365 | 92 | 1389 | Acquired by Barry Railway April 1897 |
| 1887 | 1 | Sharp Stewart | 3394 | 93 | 1390 | Acquired by Barry Railway March 1897 |
| 1888 | 2 | Sharp Stewart | 3446–3447 | 35–36 | 1387–1388 | Acquired by Barry Railway October 1889 |
References
- Barrie, D. S. M. (1983). The Barry Railway (reprint with addenda and amendments). Oakwood Press. pp. 199–200. ISBN 0853612366.
- Davies, F. K.; Firth, J. M.; Lucking, J. H.; Thomas, R. E.; Allcock, N. J.; Sterndale, A. C.; Barrie, D. S. M.; Reed, P. J. T.; Mountford, E. R. (April 1966). White, D. E., ed. The Locomotives of the Great Western Railway, part ten: Absorbed Engines, 1922–1947. RCTS. pp. K34–K37. ISBN 0-901115-20-7.
- Miller, Brian J. (1984). Rails to Prosperity – The Barry & After 1884–1984. Regional Publications (Bristol) Ltd. p. 12. ISBN 0906570174.
- Mountford, Eric R. (1987). The Barry Railway – Diagrams and Photographs of Locomotives, Coaches and Wagons. Headington: Oakwood Press. p. 12. ISBN 0853613559.
- Russell, J. H. (1978). Great Western Absorbed Engines. Oxford Publishing Company. p. 44. ISBN 0902888749.