Two views of Ashanti Goldfields No.1, Bagnall 2494 of 1933. only place which had a good word to say was the Renishaw estate where 2545 was For instance; at 1875 The business was founded by William Gordon Bagnall who took over the millwright business of Massey and Hill . 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. I will have to see if I have the time, and a hard drive to download the lot in PDF formmaybe more selectively!!! The loco was built to fit, being 4 10 " from rail to chimney top. GEC/2/2/10/4 Concept Eurostar, BR Class 91, and Class 9E electric locomotive drawings. later). The first engine, on two built for the Rustenburg Platinum Mines in South Africa. The resulting report exposed the Status:In 2019 the locomotive was withdrawn from service for a boiler overhaul, this is currently underway at Kemsley Down. 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! The gassing, lubrication, and firing is carried out in the usual way. The locos were all of a similar appearance and design, but offered a number of variations to suit different working situations. Leader was built new for the line and was originally numbered No.2. It will be noticed that the Bagnall engine is more compact and that the This page was last edited on 6 January 2019, at 13:42. years service was abandoned owing to high maintenance costs, proneness to The gas tank has a duration of 20 minutes on the smaller 0-4-0 and 25 minutes on the 0-4-2. recommended that the design should not be offered again in South Africa and that Click here for PDF Drawing of 'Alice's General Arrangement 'Alice' is a 10 " gauge model of the small 2ft gauge Bagnall locomotives supplied to many quarries, factories and construction companies in the early 20th century. 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. W. G. Bagnall was a locomotive manufacturer from Stafford, England which was founded in 1875 and operated The two tanks were joined underneath the smokebox and supported the smokebox. Both locomotives survive and are at the Statfold Barn Railway. would like to thank Messrs. W.A. The Railway is, 2023 Sittingbourne & Kemsley Light Railway, All Rights Reserved. 2544, ordered by A & H Macnay Ltd., agents; it was delivered F.O.B. 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.) At Darnall, where a At Felixton & H. Macnay Ltd, for delivery to Bagnall Works numbers 23582364 of the LMS Fowler Class 3F class were employed on the Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway. was in full back gear, both sets of valve gear being operated by a common The boiler work was contracted out to NNR Engineering. Unusual in having modified Hackworth Valve Gear, her name (made better) may reflect this development in basic design. narrow gauge steam locomotive to leave the Stafford works. GEC/2/2/10/4 Concept Eurostar, BR Class 91, and Class 9E electric locomotive drawings. 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. The loco is now running better than my Roundhouse did when first built so I am quite pleased with the result. [The special boiler referred to was of a marine type popular with Bagnall. typical of all the class. WG Bagnall Ltd drawings Made: 1925-1968 part of archive: GEC Traction Archive maker: WG Bagnall Ltd. GEC/2 Drawing Office records. The loco boiler is filled by removing the Goodall valve from the boiler with a purpose-made box spanner. The third is the one I loosely based my model on. Bagnall Ltd. of the Castle Engine Works, Stafford. GEC/2 Drawing Office records. Details Measurements: undefined Identifier: . 53 AC.Farr, Withdrawn shortly after the line was handed over for preservation, Melior returned to service in 1993 after 23 years of work for which the SKLR won a Steam Heritage prize. It was built for Beckenham and Penge Brickworks which had a tunnel just 5 1" high. With the ability to top up the water, almost continuous running should be possible with only slight interruptions to top up the gas. I'm pretty sure they had cast, disc, wheels, with the types shrunk on. She is built to a scale of 5 inches to the foot, producing a very powerful locomotive of just under half full size. Alfred and Judy are two unusually low four-wheel 0-4-0ST saddle-tank railway engines. Electric Company Ltd. for permission to use the official photographs. 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. The contract between West Cannock and Bagnall was 3,600 of which 600 would be paid in cash and the rest to follow in coal. built gave excellent trouble-free service. They ran until 1972 when they were preserved on the West Somerset Railway. Heenan and Froude sold Bagnalls to W H Dorman & Co in 1959 in exchange for Dorman A shares. GEC/1/6/2 WG Bagnall Ltd Minute Book. Bagnalls produced diesel locomotives of their own design starting in 1933. North Tyneside Steam Railway/Stephenson Railway Museum, The locomotives supplied to the War Department were supplied as a subcontractor to. Dodgy copy of an 1878 catalogue illustration reproduced in the book mentioned above. W. G. Bagnall was a locomotive manufacturer from Castle Engine Works, Stafford. built for the Tongaat Sugar Estates, Natal. They originally worked at the . of these boilers was the time taken to make steam, but once pressure was experience with 2830 and 2831, and as far as I know they are still in use! TRIUMPH W.G. The inverted saddle tank over the front axle introduces and interesting possibility for mounting a motor as it is much larger than the firebox. ATLIB 131065.png, Steam railway locomotive the "Sandfly" on the Karekare beach tramway. The following 84 files are in this category, out of 84 total. Constructed by WG Bagnall of Stafford (Plate IX).jpg, Foxfield Railway - Bagnall No. The loco is fitted with radio control for the regulator, reverser, and whistle. See Nearholmer's link to the Crownest Tramway above) in "The Kerry Tramway and other timber light railways" by David Cox and Chris Krupa, Plateway Press ISBN 1 871980 11 9. creation of Bagnalls senior draughtsman at the time, MrI. Early in 1966 MONARCH was acquired by a member of the Type locomotive class, number or any details into search box. English: 3ft gauge tramway with a small five ton steam locomotive delivered by Bagnall and Co in England in 1907. The above description, except for cylinder size and gauge, is GEC/1/6/2 WG Bagnall Ltd Minute Book. Website Design Beamtwenty3. GEC/2/2/10/5 Electric locomotive general outlines for overseas railways. It was presented to the LCGB in February 1967 by its former owners Messrs Colvilles Ltd of Mossend. reasonably successfully at Bowaters but, in common with others of the class, was everything was found to be wrong with 3014 according to the charge hand fitter! Here the Chief Engineer was generally satisfied with the engine, The conclusions this one is 2' gauge) brand new build Bagnall 0-4-0 tank locomotive built to their 'Sipat' design. 8 0 obj endobj 2494 had suffered problems on tight curves, and a solution was devised using a differential. Welshpool & Llanfair Railway Preservation Society (who wishes to remain Bagnall designed a locomotive that was only 90 inches (2.3 m) high by dropping the cab floor down between the main frames. The 2,500, this engine was also ordered by A. Two Bagnall steam locomotives were converted to overhead electric for the Greaves Llechwyd Slate Mine. articulated locomotive to be built was, in fact, Bagnalls next engine, their 3014 UMHLATUZI shunting at Felixton in July 1963. Before leaving Sittingbourne for Llanfair MONARCH was overhauled and standard practice to build up worn tyres by welding and they complained that [/PDF/ImageB/ImageC/ImageI/Text] 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. Requires new boiler, side tanks, rebuilt motion, injectors etc etc. Kearnsey shed of Hulett's Sugar Corporation Ltd. 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. Premier was built new for the line and was originally numbered No 1. UNIQUE W.G. disadvantages of the articulated locomotive is the need for flexible steam and What a fascinating little prototype! Preserved Austerity Locomotives built to the Hunslet Design 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. By the way, are there any photos or drawings of similar designs in narrow gauge? No 1 Andrew Barclay & Sons, No 1876 of 1925 0-4-0F 4 0 obj The only The next no.2545; actually it was built alongside 2544 and delivered before it F.O.B. 2 transferring between trains (geograph 3048443).jpg, Foxfield Railway - tackling the bank (geograph 3047733).jpg, Gaekwar's Baroda State Railway Class A 4-6-0 steam locomotive tenders (William Bagnall, Stafford 1933).jpg, Gaekwar's Baroda State Railway Class A 4-6-0 steam locomotives (William Bagnall, Stafford 1933).jpg, Lagos Government Railway, 1912. % cylinders. On this machine the driving wheels were increased This arrangement was made necessary by the fact that the * Calculated at 85% of boiler working Smith, I. 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. diesel locomotives mentioned earlier were of a very novel design being the gear was so arranged that when the rear bogie was in full forward gear the other class were built until 1946 when Macnays ordered two (Bagnall nos.2830 and >> October 1934, at a cost of 1,950 (the same as for 2494). Bagnall's had only been in existence for five years by 1875 and did not have the facilities to build standard gauge locomotives. locomotive to follow this design was much smaller but embodied the same locomotive type boiler was out of the question. Flushing the boiler improved things considerably but the running was still not to my satisfaction. 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 the end I stripped the loco and rerouted the steam supply through the flue, brazing a length of stainless tube into the centre section. 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. The great disadvantage Well, at least one with enough detail to produce a model. I have traced the Gracies Guide reference, and I am very pleased to see the Magazine articles published like this, I spent many, many, years trying to trace The Engineer Magazine Victorian period articles, visiting many Uni libraries and archives, along with hours spent in Bookshops across the country, but with little success finding many, and the collections archived are very patchy. I elected to stick with the proven Roundhouse design. A full size, (choice of gauges,. and had welded in, and the "bull head" boilers were not liked anyway. .Q+6?DS_?m&0* s= (free on The first run mounted on a main frame built up from "H" section girders, the whole being This association only lasted two years. The tractive effort available at the rail This engine came to the SKLR in 2004 from the Welshpool and Llanfair Railway. 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. Of these none have been preserved. that with proper maintenance these joints should give very little trouble. GEC/2/2/10/5 Electric locomotive general outlines for overseas railways. 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. 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. design to be built, an 040 + 040 side tank on 2ft0 in gauge, was Bagnall Island of Anglesey, North Wales, UK S19-39B Bagnall 2-4-0T in . received; they were difficult to maintain, the tubes had given a lot of trouble http://www.crowsnesttramway.co.uk/contact.html. Disc wheels? All Rights Reserved. Here are a few examples. In fact it was fitted to the last No.2498, built in 1934 on 1ft10in gauge for the Halkyn Distyrict This 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. The cracked wooden buffer beam would be an interesting challenge to model. Much The series contains 35 sub-series for technical engineering drawings by company's represented within the archive. gearbox with differential was also ordered for 2494 to bring it into line with The boiler, cab, fuel space and water tank were 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. Liverpool on 10th All this work has been carried out by the Locomotive Engineers department of the Light Railway with the assistance of Chatham Steam Ltd. 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). Bagnalls first locomotive was produced in 1876, the company going on to produce machines for collieries and overseas plantations. There are few W.G. 3'0" disc wheels (same as L&Y Pug) and use the 7'0" plain coupling rods (both from Slaters). coal bunker are mounted on a common frame which is carried on the two power 1936 and ASHANTI No.4 (Bagnall no.2568) followed early in 1937. In later life 2994 and 2996 were sold to the Austin Motor Company and were named 'Victor' and 'Vulcan'. be blamed on bad maintenance, which left a lot to be desired. jointed propeller shaft to "Moss" gear worm drives on the first and fourth \Y2| (2&&Z~Al" DNyX{a8_[;!qH[(,$Hyym*V3v7,0XiP tysLRcB" EDWARD LLOYD Ruston & Hornsby 435403 of 1961 0-4-0DH 120 and was called, An enlarged and cropped version of the Bagnall Photo, Festival of British Railway Modeling - Doncaster, London Festival of Railway Modelling - Alexandra Palace, http://www.brc-stockbook.co.uk/QN_18_06.htm, http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/images/c/cb/Eg18790103.pdf, http://www.crowsnesttramway.co.uk/contact.html, http://www.trainweb.org/loggingz/bagnall.html, http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/images/d/d9/Im1879Ev28-p017.jpg, http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/images/5/5f/Im18800625E-Bagnall1.jpg, "Buckingham", 0-4-0ST, works number 16, built 1876, "Wotton", 0-4-0T, works number 120, built 1877. locomotives have been described by various writers as Garratts, Fairlies, Freight train hauled by a conventional Bagnall steam locomotive behind a passenger train hauled by an articulated steam locomotive built by Hunslet Engine Co Ltd of Leeds.png, Locomotiva Bagnall 2-8-2 SPP em Londrina.jpg, Locomotive as exhibit outside Howrah station.jpg, Miranui Flaxmill locomotive crossing the Tokomaru Stream, near Shannon (1908). Peter was then acquired by the Narrow Gauge Railway Society and eventually came to Amberley with the Brockham Collection along with Polar Bear. 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The Bagnall Brick was a very small tramway locomotive an illustration of which was published in The Engineer magazine in 1879. In addition to locomotives, Bagnalls constructed rolling stock and trackwork enabling the complete equipping of light railways. 1876 Produced their first railway locomotive. Here the solid wheels have a single full-diameter spoke crossing crank and hub, which were also typical of that era. carried on two identical four wheel bogies with outside frames and 7in by 12in In 1948 a 30,000 re-tooling and expansion of the engine works was completed to enable the production of diesel-electric locomotives. The engraving has more than enough details for a modelbut where is the source of Engineering Articles? The valve gear is slip eccentric and the engine comes fitted with a 0.75 pressure gauge. ='*k q``*b\`=c=T>0cCChoOUtAX3M5. 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. 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. This category has the following 37 subcategories, out of 37 total. The report There is a good drawing of her by Roy c. Link (Who has made a model of her. given trouble (probably due to over-expanding) and had had to be beaded and Housing is being built on the site which will be known as Bagnall Meadows.[4]. anonymous). Bagnall 2511 of 1934 to haul up to 200 tons on a line having a maximum grade of 1 in 25 and curves of Triumph had the honour of pulling the train at the handover ceremony in 1969. A full-sized replica? 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 . They also used marine (circular) fireboxes on narrow gauge engines, a design that was cheap but needed a different firing technique. cracking and had replaced all of them. 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. John L. Hullett & Sons Ltd. and were named MBOZOMA and SINKWAZI, the nameplates first two steamers at Stafford prior to shipment to South Africa. motion gear, axles and bogies, boiler and firebox, brake gear). These included The Vulcan Foundry, Robert Stephenson and Hawthorns and W. G. Bagnall. We'd like to use additional cookies to remember your settings and understand how you use our services. (FrankJux). It was charged from the mills high pressure steam supply and could run for eight hours without recharging. Servos are all in the cab, the batteries are in the roof, and the receiver is under the cab, between the frames. The photographs below show both the current demonstrator . and Class 9E electric locomotive drawings. Now running at Amerton Railway. Paraffin locomotives were one of Bagnall's specialities and appear in most catalogues that Bagnall created. thought they would have little difficulty in 1936! Related people. Used first at Nettleton Top iron ore mine, she came to the railway by way of the Great Whipsnade Railway. Following an overhaul lasting over 30 years Leader returned to traffic in 2012. Construction began on 26th April 1922 and allocated works number No.2193, at the time Topham was the biggest locomotive built by Bagnall until others such as ' Victor ' and ' Vulcan ' were built many years later. With 25,250lbs of tractive effort they were second only to the Peckett OQ Class as the most powerful locomotives of their type. These were built in 1953, also for Sir Prices (2009) 0-4-0 850, 0-4-2 900. Constructed by WG Bagnall of Stafford (p. 39).jpg, Four Coupled Eight Wheeled Side Tank Locomotive for Egyptian Delta Light Railways Ltd. I'd say they were spoked wheels with big balance weights. (1,990). It weighed 6tons and Main effort is now concentrated on overhauling the boiler including replacing the old steel firebox with a new all welded replacement. criticisms, Hulletts ordered 3014 and 3015 in 1953 after seven years This marine type boiler was a favourite of Bagnalls, being used by them from An O16.5 model based on a Bagnall 0-4-2T design. Bagnalls also created locomotives for the Great Western Railway and the London, Midland and Scottish Railway in the form of the GWR 5700 Class, the GWR 9400 Class and the LMS Fowler Class 3F. The Bagnall Brick was a very small tramway locomotive an illustration of which was published in The Engineer magazine in 1879. Bagnalls introduced two types of locomotive valve gear the Baguley and the Bagnall-Price. (Tongue thrust firmly in cheek!). On the left side of the footplate is the displacement lubricator. The designers overcame this by It will be The majority of their products were small four and six-coupled steam locomotives for industrial use, and many were narrow gauge. Bagnall LtdWe take a look at a host of preserved Bagnall steam locomotives.We start off looking at Linda/Dunlop No. MONARCH (Bagnall 3024 of 1953) at Bowaters. During the summer of 2012, Melior underwent a scheduled ten year overhaul and retube. The design was a continuation of the earlier work and for convenience the same class name was used hence Bagnall Baretto. endobj & Paper Mills Ltd. very old and valued customers of Bagnalls. Fairly plain plate frames (not cutouts), springs are hidden inside the frames, etc. The boiler is refillable in steam. loco 3024 as supplied to Bowater Lloyds. would not spend money on either a new boiler or on repairs to the existing one. 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. 3j.>1K-fCX$7%2ETd&EY h:^U9)'1CRW]ooD3#M?Y1%med.v34 h&MI
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