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. Cliffe Hill Mineral Railway locomotive Isabel, preserved on a plinth in Stafford in 1974. Lower: Darnall If I ever get around to learning a cad program, I might be able to produce a modeller's drawing. Below: Looking down on the engine. using an enlarged version of their "Bull Head" boiler. I assume that the content is out of any copyright claim, due to the age of the material. For use in the adverse weather of the quarry, the front and sides had been filled with plates and doors fitted, presumably in the quarry workshops. disadvantages of the articulated locomotive is the need for flexible steam and Status: Static exhibit until major overhaul can be financed. We'd like to use additional cookies to remember your settings and understand how you use our services. ALPHA W.G. Photos by the author, Extract from the Bagnall catalogue: 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. motion gear, axles and bogies, boiler and firebox, brake gear). The next two of It was 2 ft ( 610 mm) gauge and had two 4-wheel articulated bogies, allowing it to negotiate 60-foot radius curves and draw 200 tons. 'Proposed Design of new Diesel Locomotive' but features shown in the photograph LEADER Kerr Stuart 926 of 1905 built for the Kent Electric Power Company at Littlebrook Power Station, near Dartford, Originally named "Vulcan" and numbered 401 it was part of a batch of three built for the. GEC/2/1 Drawing registers. An interesting side issue here was that it was For instance; at 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. The company was founded in 1875 by William Gordon Bagnall. October 1934, at a cost of 1,950 (the same as for 2494). GEC/2/1 Drawing registers. Bagnalls introduced several novel type of locomotive valve gear including the Bagnall-Price and the Baguley. Withdrawn shortly after the line was handed over for preservation, Melior returned to service in 1993 after 23 years of work for which the SKLR won a Steam Heritage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. This marine type boiler was a favourite of Bagnalls, being used by them from Between the photo and the engraving, I should be able to infer leading measurements and general arrangements. [5] They also used marine (circular) fireboxes on narrow gauge engines, a design that was cheap but needed a different firing technique. History []. Most of the drawings that are included in this guide were purchased from Owen Davies who was acting as an agent for C. W. Witbeck of Hammond, Louisiana. thought they would have little difficulty in 1936! While the Halkyn engine was scrapped in 1937, the Ashanti engines had remarkably long lives. 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]. cost 1,300. Bagnalls introduced several novel type of locomotive valve gear including the Bagnall-Price and the Baguley. 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. up to 60ft radius. (free on Prices (2009) 0-4-0 850, 0-4-2 900. Bagnalls worked with Siemens at the Siemens Stafford works to supply the electrical equipment for the locomotives. typical of all the class. As Robert Fairlie overcame this in 1865 I suppose Bagnalls In 1959 W. G. Bagnall was sold to W. H. Dorman and Co, a neighbouring Stafford diesel engine maker, by Heenans in exchange for Dorman shares. The drawing of the steam criticisms, Hulletts ordered 3014 and 3015 in 1953 after seven years A reservoir on this loco held steam at 220 lb/sq in. loco 3024 as supplied to Bowater Lloyds. It had been displayed on Bagnall's stand at the Royal . The gassing, lubrication, and firing is carried out in the usual way. Copyright Sidestreet Bannerworks, 2011. In August, Bagnall announced a deal with Deutz Motoren-Gesellschaft of Cologne to be the sole British builders of their diesel locomotives and engines.[9]. Main effort is now concentrated on overhauling the boiler including replacing the old steel firebox with a new all welded replacement. It was a simple matter to scale the drawings up . Media in category "W. G. Bagnall locomotives". * 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. 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 Bagnalls first locomotive was produced in 1876, the company going on to produce machines for collieries and overseas plantations. In 1948 WG Bagnall Ltd was sold to the Bridge and Steelwork Company, Heenan and Froude, whose owner also owned The Brush Electrical Engineering Co Ltd of Loughborough and in 1951, Bagnalls formed an association with Brush to create Brush-Bagnall Traction Ltd. Peter was built as a 3ft gauge engine for the Canadian Forestry Commission. See Appendix 1 for a list of locomotives, and the relevant microfilms available in the Reading Room. The boiler, cab, fuel space and water tank were 3j.>1K-fCX$7%2ETd&EY h:^U9)'1CRW]ooD3#M?Y1%med.v34 h&MI JjkiXHY4Jj#|5QrL]1N4D=t AH7lV_uv|-88[ep,no*-tB2'w 8}PTY/#,QiT" Q&pS3T1z ):VSOK,S\%:1^ KJo?e1,b/Gc/ E]/d*1zc87ep-oeJ8:=1C_ >d%+ M1z'"CF!wS_U_w5P~Zpl`SP{{NH4g@gM1'WL e9'^[D6A\J*fCdgpaUV61^j+7M>8kr#Kb|Ukg!6c}6id`d.]!=m?*c["DK}C{=Ncl Ed[SY\~G =p#V^EvE}WHv)p1 9L&TD\?^a"sJ+u$JZsW\57 z!eK%a^puH@2n"{H/?@@$'c={a[BPUtS"i)zfFJo)6SULS?'P(@nM#t N*}}"$6^H$&t\MYckU. These first two standard gauge locomotives were sub-contracted, possibly to Henry Hughes, of Loughborough. The boiler work was contracted out to NNR Engineering. cracking and had replaced all of them. their double bogie design would have become very popular, as the few examples coal bunker are mounted on a common frame which is carried on the two power 89 Nasmyth Wilson (713-1905), and 2-6-2T No. Of these none have been preserved. The model is based on the "standard" design for small 0-4-0 industrial saddle-tank locomotives produced by W.G. The remainder was built from scratch. 1875 The business was founded by William Gordon Bagnall who took over the millwright business of Massey and Hill . It had been displayed on Bagnall's stand at the Royal . carried on two identical four wheel bogies with outside frames and 7in by 12in The boiler is a conventional single flue, gas-fired type. The Great Western Railway Bagnall GWR 9400 Class was numbered 84008449 and numbers 8400 to 8406 were employed on the former L.M.S. At Darnall, where a Lots were published without photos as they could not be easily printed direct in those days. 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. When the saddle tank is in place the extra diameter is not obvious. It is this inside reversed-cylinder type that has me fascinated. The tubes had 3'0" disc wheels (same as L&Y Pug) and use the 7'0" plain coupling rods (both from Slaters). Bagnall also manufactured electric locomotives. GEC/1/6/2 WG Bagnall Ltd Minute Book. Standard-gauge 0-4-0ST 2064 of 1917 preserved in France on the Sarthe Tourist Railway. All Rights Reserved. All structured data from the file namespace is available under the. was in full back gear, both sets of valve gear being operated by a common Sybil was an open-cab version on the Dinorwic Quarry. 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). GEC/2 Drawing Office records. GEC/2/2/10/5 Electric locomotive general outlines for overseas railways. Kearnsey shed of Hulett's Sugar Corporation Ltd. Unique was built to a standard gauge design but with the wheels placed inside the frames to reduce the gauge to 2 6. & H. Macnay Ltd, for delivery to These included The Vulcan Foundry, Robert Stephenson and Hawthorns and W. G. Bagnall. on 14th June 1933 at a cost of 1,950. and Class 9E electric locomotive drawings. This engine masquerades as Ivor the Engine during special events related to the books by Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin. 1876 Produced their first railway locomotive. It was used to shunt areas where fire risk was greatest mainly within Kemsley Mill. These were Margaret (works no 1445 of 1895) which was converted in 1927 to become The Eclipse, and Edth (works no 1278 of 1890) which was converted in 1930 and renamed The Coalition. 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 locomotive, Bagnall 2494, was delivered F.O.B. Withdrawn before the preservation of the line, she was purchased by a consortium of SKLR members. complicated and delicate for conditions on the plantations. 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 . . A full-sized replica? She is named after the original owner of Sittingbourne Mill. If you are interested, contact us and please read our Terms of Trade. Bagnall articulated locomotives most people will think of MONARCH, now happily GEC/2/2/11 GEC Alsthom Limited drawings. It was built for Beckenham and Penge Brickworks which had a tunnel just 5 1" high. and flexible to negotiate the very sharp curves and severe gradients to be found A new firebox can be fitted in a day. There are a few custom kits as well. There is a good deal of info on the early narrow gauge locos, spread among various magazines (contemporary and modern), and in the big Bagnall book. 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. However, it is interesting to note that in spite of all their Overhaul is expected to start very soon. 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. [/PDF/ImageB/ImageC/ImageI/Text] The only 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. Examples of such locomotives can be seen on the Sittingbourne & Kemsley Light Railway. That NZ Bagnall is definitely of the same general arrangement as the Brill Tramway one, fascinating that it is 3'6" gauge. On this machine the driving wheels were increased Bagnall 2216 of 1923 drawn were that the standard articulated design was not sufficiently robust to The prototype 15inch saddletank was ordered by Butterley & Co in late 1939 and Bagnall built this one plus another for stock. requirements and fired them to their liking. In 1948 Heenan and Froude acquired W. G. Bagnall Ltd. 1568. locomotive to follow this design was much smaller but embodied the same The conclusions This must have been a bitter pill to swallow as they were pioneers in the . Palmerston North City Library, digitisation ID 2007N_Fx91_FLA_0636. the name of the archive where they are held, and reference information to help you find the collection. UNIQUE W.G. Illova it was found that 2544 was completely out of favour and after twelve There is no doubt My loco was to run on 45mm track, representing 2' 3, so the reduced space between the frames did not cause too much of a problem. A fourth locomotive of this type named Melior was delivered in 1924. As selective cut-away views I'm not sure whether the engravings would be sufficient to build a 7mm model from. The gas tank has a duration of 20 minutes on the smaller 0-4-0 and 25 minutes on the 0-4-2. of the class no.3024 MONARCH, also built in 1953 was the last. board) at Liverpool on 4th September 1936 for Illovo Sugar Estates, _UIAoxM,6%2:q4f\Hw{\"Mz43.~7]cHpI{{f+LjH1]c3 The boiler is refillable in steam. 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). endobj Sixteen (68018-20 & 68047-59) of these were bought by the LNER in 1945-46. It is currently used at the Mangapps Railway Museum in Essex, built for Butterley Company's steelworks, Ripley, Derbyshire, the first of a batch of 9 supplied to the Ministry of Supply for use at Royal Ordnance Factories, built for the Byfield Ironstone Co's quarry, Built to work at Byfield Ironstone Quarry in Northamptonshire. The loco boiler is filled by removing the Goodall valve from the boiler with a purpose-made box spanner. * Darnall, where 2830, 2831 and 3015 were working, similar complaints were GEC/2/2/10/4 Concept Eurostar, BR Class 91, and Class 9E electric locomotive drawings. 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. In 1933 Bagnalls entered into an agreement with Deutz of Germany to manufacture their locomotives under licence using engines imported from Germany. Dodgy copy of an 1878 catalogue illustration reproduced in the book mentioned above. 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.) axles, the other two axles being driven by coupling rods. The reason for the development of the articulated steam locomotive was http://www.trainweb.org/loggingz/bagnall.html. The designers overcame this by (Tongue thrust firmly in cheek!). This included designs produced by the GWR and the LMS. Now running at Amerton Railway. The locomotive, Bagnall 2494, was delivered F.O.B. /Length 9 0 R GEC/2 Drawing Office records. drive as it was found that 2494 had suffered with binding on the curves. until it was taken over in 1962 by English Electric. experience with 2830 and 2831, and as far as I know they are still in use! I elected to stick with the proven Roundhouse design. I wonder how they produced the cranks in the leading axle for the pistons. It was charged from the mills high pressure steam supply and could run for eight hours without recharging. At Felixton Fairly plain plate frames (not cutouts), springs are hidden inside the frames, etc. 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. Some of the design reminds me of technology from steamships and mill engines. They were noted for building steam and diesel locomotives in standard and narrow gauges. opinion that, had it not been for the conditions forced upon them by the War, Steel fireboxes were used as well as "Owens" patent poppet valve and balanced regulator valves though surprisingly the locomotives weren't fitted with superheating. [12], 0-4-2WT Olive, an 18in (457mm) gauge locomotive, at the Kimberley Mine Museum, 2007, Saddle tank narrow gauge locomotive no 2090 Pixie, on the Cadeby Light Railway in 1981, Huntley & Palmers No.1, Bagnall 0-4-0F preserved at Cholsey and Wallingford Railway. We place some essential cookies on your device to make this website work. larger than 2544, the main difference being the increase in cylinder size to 9in Bagnall Ltd. of the Castle Engine Works, Stafford. It is my The Railway is, 2023 Sittingbourne & Kemsley Light Railway, All Rights Reserved. This information will help us make improvements to the website. detail drawings for each locomotive component, eg. They did, in fact, Bagnalls carried out a survey, under actual working conditions, of all their Alfred and Judy are two unusually low four-wheel 0-4-0ST saddle-tank railway engines. The Malletts and Meyers, but strictly speaking they are a design on their own, Graces Guide is THE place for the retro-technologist. United Mines Ltd., Bryn Owel, Flintshire, was delivered on 23rd March locomotives, however, are not the only Bagnall articulated machines, being %PDF-1.4 .Q+6?DS_?m&0* s= Well done Martin for finding it - must admit I am quite taken with it and am now wondering if I can find a use for one on Elsbridge WharfI note that Slaters produce a 2'6" driving wheel intended for a Ruston & Hornsby loco, however this is 4-hole; judging from the cropped photo you posted it appears the prototype had solid disc wheels - Slaters also produce a 2'3" disc wheel (with crankpin boss - intended for a County Donegal rail car so 3'/21mm gauge) but this would obviously require the purchase of their standard gauge axles. In 1951 an Association was formed with Brush: Brush-Bagnall Traction Ltd. 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. was liked as it had given very little trouble, although some cracks had in diameter from 1ft8in to 2ft0in and a differential gear was included in the reversing lever. They were unusual in having "reversed" inside cylinders, which drove the front axle. Upper photograph is of Bagnall 2544, the lower being Bagnall 2545. ATLIB 286760.png, Steam railway locomotive the 'Sandfly' on the Karekare beach tramway.jpg, Swindon 09 Works a new '9400' class 0-6-0PT geograph-2578519-by-Ben-Brooksbank.jpg, The Leighton Buzzard Light Railway in Sep 1992 (7).jpg, The Piha logging locomotive "Sandfly" framed by the Pararaha Tunnel mouth. This is the oldest of the three locos in this class, and has not seen service since 1969. These Bagnall Phoenix Works, Bradford British Rail: Southern Region Details Measurements: . to their No.1 except for the inclusion of the differential and the cost by 12in, and set the pattern for future engines of the class. Related people. 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Awaiting overhaul, boiler ticket expired in 2006. 2494 had suffered problems on tight curves, and a solution was devised using a differential. Both locomotives survive and are at the Statfold Barn Railway. looked at it!). For details of preserved fireless locomotives built by W G Bagnall go to Fireless Locomotives. The model Registered Charity No 105 7079 PO Box 300, Sittingbourne, Kent ME10 2DZ 5 0 obj ASHANTI No.2, in January 1934. 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 1,088 577; 634 KB. this design (the last) were both for the Ashanti Corporation and were identical Upper: Bagnall Smith, I. This locomotive will be reproduced in model form by Hornby in 2020. 8 0 obj 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. The resulting report exposed the Enthusiasts have reinstated almost a mile of the iconic former 20-mile route, which the Southern Railway . AC.Farr, These received; they were difficult to maintain, the tubes had given a lot of trouble 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). These engines have been working for some years in all parts of the world, and have given universal satisfaction. Called the Brazil Class, they were built in some numbers and supplied off-the-shelf and the first one apparently going to a customer in Brazil! Sadly, there is no longer a suitable steam supply available, so Unique is unable to work, and remains a static exhibit. They used to hand-build narrow gauge locomotives one at a time. Last of the line - This The next built for the Tongaat Sugar Estates, Natal. Two Bagnall steam locomotives were converted to overhead electric for the Greaves Llechwyd Slate Mine. that the engine took sixteen hours to raise steam! design to be built, an 040 + 040 side tank on 2ft0 in gauge, was Bagnall 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. This File has been scanned by Palmerston North City Libraries. The Stafford locomotive construction company started in 1875 when William Gordon Bagnall took over the millwright business of Massey and Hill. trouble had been experienced with the flexible steam and exhaust pipe joints, no very slow in raising steam and heavy on maintenance; I believe it was little Bagnall 2472 of 1932 PREMIER Kerr Stuart 886 of 1905 Currently in service. I'd say they were spoked wheels with big balance weights. They also used marine (circular) fireboxes on narrow gauge engines, a design that was cheap but needed a different firing technique. This 2ft 6in 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. Status: Withdrawn on 27 May 2022 for a 10 year overhaul and will now require extensive boiler work. Requires new boiler, side tanks, rebuilt motion, injectors etc etc. The whole arrangement was quite foolproof to enable The Bagnall Brick was a very small tramway locomotive an illustration of which was published in The Engineer magazine in 1879. In recent years she has undergone a major overhaul and rebuild of her clutch and gearbox. Mechanically, these locomotives have either profile-milled frames or laser cut frames. I would welcome any information which I can use to improve the site. gear was so arranged that when the rear bogie was in full forward gear the other Type locomotive class, number or any details into search box. W. G. Bagnall was a locomotive manufacturer from Stafford, England which was founded in 1875 and operated preceded by some years by five double bogie articulated diesels (of which more The first engine, on two is obvious that the articulated design was not a success. underground service in Flintshire. be blamed on bad maintenance, which left a lot to be desired. (1,990). locomotives have been described by various writers as Garratts, Fairlies, A C. Farr and T.A. Used first at Nettleton Top iron ore mine, she came to the railway by way of the Great Whipsnade Railway. Liverpool on 21st May 1936. 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. Bagnall also commonly used the saddle tank which carries the water on top of the boiler. 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