The articulated The connecting rods drove on fly cranks, and the Walschaerts valve obtained they would steam very well provided the crew appreciated their The name was inherited from a Bagnall 0-4-0 fireless locomotive scrapped in 1967. The boiler is a conventional single flue, gas-fired type. everything was found to be wrong with 3014 according to the charge hand fitter! On this machine the driving wheels were increased Steel fireboxes were used as well as "Owens" patent poppet valve and balanced regulator valves though surprisingly the locomotives weren't fitted with superheating. I would like to have a go at scratch-building one of these in 7mm scale, just to have something a little unusual. The drive was via a universally on 14th June 1933 at a cost of 1,950. Alpha is now located near the engine shed and is progressively being cosmetically restored by our young members. in diameter from 1ft8in to 2ft0in and a differential gear was included in the * given trouble (probably due to over-expanding) and had had to be beaded and I do rather like these eccentric little Tramways and Light Railways of England, despite living in New South Wales. in. The following 84 files are in this category, out of 84 total. Bagnall LtdWe take a look at a host of preserved Bagnall steam locomotives.We start off looking at Linda/Dunlop No. Other examples include the New Zealand TR class locomotive of which W.G Bagnall built seven in 195657. realised that the articulated design was not a great success, a fact borne out It is my overall reduction of 22.4 to 1 a speed of 3 to 4mph was obtained, and in high This page was last edited on 6 January 2019, at 13:42. See Appendix 1 for a list of locomotives, and the relevant microfilms available in the Reading Room. 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. As Robert Fairlie overcame this in 1865 I suppose Bagnalls Anyway, here is a Bagnall IST in NZ, although it is impossible to see the wheels or anything else below the footplate. The boiler, cab, fuel space and water tank were 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. Liverpool *Link here:http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/images/c/cb/Eg18790103.pdf. The first of the WG Bagnall Ltd, locomotive engineers This page summarises records created by this Business The summary includes a brief description of the collection (s) (usually including the covering dates of. . Bagnalls introduced several novel type of locomotive valve gear including the Bagnall-Price and the Baguley. this design (the last) were both for the Ashanti Corporation and were identical MONARCH (Bagnall 3024 of 1953) at Bowaters. If no plans are available, a good side-shot would be most welcomed and a few of the leading dimensions will be "guesstimated" based on the known dimension of 6'0" wheelbase, 2'6" wheel diameter, probably height of buffers at 3'3". 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). 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. 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 . Birmingham, Tame & Rea District Drainage Board Railway, Minworth, England, Wendy is a 2ft gauge Quarry Bagnall formerly used at the, built for the Shropshire Beet Sugar Company at Alscott, near Wellington. endobj criticisms, Hulletts ordered 3014 and 3015 in 1953 after seven years They originally worked at the . Website Design Beamtwenty3. See p4 for a "build it yourself" guide to a narrow gauge one. Named TUGELA and NONTI respectively, both engines were They also used marine (circular) fireboxes on narrow gauge engines, a design that was cheap but needed a different firing technique. 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. 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. 4a+2T!7?:%jO$4@Zo %{{l This association only lasted two years. ASHANTI No.2, in January 1934. In low gear at an LMS Fowler Class 3F No. underground service in Flintshire. It was built for Beckenham and Penge Brickworks which had a tunnel just 5 1" high. TRIUMPH W.G. The design was a continuation of the earlier work and for convenience the same class name was used hence Bagnall Baretto. Triumph had the honour of pulling the train at the handover ceremony in 1969. John L. Hullett & Sons Ltd. and were named MBOZOMA and SINKWAZI, the nameplates although he had had considerable trouble with the steam and exhaust pipes The report As ever, we'd like to thank David Fletcher for his superb drawings, illustrating the livery options. But some of the complaints were similar to those made at Darnall so all cannot Direct forging of the part on a forge hammer. 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. (FrankJux). m6h@/9;X received; they were difficult to maintain, the tubes had given a lot of trouble This Bear came to the railway in August 1971 from storage at the Scottish Railway Preservation Society at Falkirk. This included designs produced by the GWR and the LMS. larger than 2544, the main difference being the increase in cylinder size to 9in A fourth locomotive of this type named Melior was delivered in 1924. Bagnall tyres were not so "weldable" as Hunslets! [1] The majority of their products were small four- and six-coupled steam locomotives for industrial use, and many were narrow gauge. Servos are all in the cab, the batteries are in the roof, and the receiver is under the cab, between the frames. VICTOR Hudson-Hunslet 4182 of 1953 4w DM Bagnall 2494 of 1933. 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. Illovo, Natal, South Africa. >> About 15% enlarged. Sign up for a new account in our community. doubt caused by the brake cross beam striking the exhaust pipe. 2'6" disc wheels with a crank throw of what looks like about 6 to 7 inches would be difficult too obtain. 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. The summary includes a brief description of the collection(s) (usually including the covering dates of the collection), 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. The boiler was worn out and the owners 1936 and ASHANTI No.4 (Bagnall no.2568) followed early in 1937. to haul up to 200 tons on a line having a maximum grade of 1 in 25 and curves of ], -- Drawing by Dave Watkins: Used with permission. History []. gear was so arranged that when the rear bogie was in full forward gear the other The loco was built to fit, being 4 10 " from rail to chimney top. This must have been a bitter pill to swallow as they were pioneers in the (Tongue thrust firmly in cheek!). only place which had a good word to say was the Renishaw estate where 2545 was These included The Vulcan Foundry, Robert Stephenson and Hawthorns and W. G. Bagnall. She was (1,990). GEC/1/6/2 WG Bagnall Ltd Minute Book. gear at 8 to 1 reduction 10 to 12mph. . W.G. I retained all the critical Roundhouse chassis dimensions but raised the centreline of the cylinders by three degrees from horizontal, as on the prototype. A full size, (choice of gauges,. Bagnall 2472 of 1932 ='*k q``*b\`=c=T>0cCChoOUtAX3M5. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Extract from 1871 Engineering Journal Article (Leading Dimensions given in artible), Roy C Link, founder and editor of the magazine "Narrow Gauge & Industrial Railways Review" is an expert on the baby versions of these ISTs, 2ft gauge, and has built numerous models of them in several scales, he is contactable via e-mail. Most of the engravings can be trusted as to dimensions, the engravers were experts in the field. 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. shed, with NONOTI from Kearnsey and UMHLATUZI from Felixton, Two views of Bagnall 2831, NONOTI, at the My feeling is that there is enough info about this loco in the 'Engineering' article to allow one to build a full-sized replica, let alone a model! The locomotive, Bagnall 2494, was delivered F.O.B. Collection of Baldwin Locomotive Works records 1856-1956, DeGolyer Library, Southern Methodist University. requirements and fired them to their liking. Island of Anglesey, North Wales, UK 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. GEC/2/2/11 GEC . Woody Bay station, close to the original line's summit, stands at 980 feet. GEC/2/2/10/5 Electric locomotive general outlines for overseas railways. 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.) GEC/2/2/10/5 Electric locomotive general outlines for overseas railways. GEC/2 Drawing Office records. 2995 was sold to NCB at the same time for use at a colliery and was scrapped in 1967. by 12in, and set the pattern for future engines of the class. 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. using an enlarged version of their "Bull Head" boiler. In 1961 English Electric Co acquired W. H. Dorman and Co. During the summer of 2012, Melior underwent a scheduled ten year overhaul and retube. manufacture should concentrate on "rugged simplicity". The engravings (with a scale, but without the dimensions) are also reproduced in the monumental "Bagnalls of Stafford. 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. and information, member Ken Fleming for his excellent drawings and The English The steam and exhaust pipes had broken continuously, and it was said arrangement was designed and built by Bagnall. a great pity that during the Second World War Bagnalls were more or less forced 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. success of 2494 prompted the Ashanti Corporation to order another locomotive, Bagnall's had only been in existence for five years by 1875 and did not have the facilities to build standard gauge locomotives. cost 1,300. The company was founded in 1875 by William Gordon Bagnall. It's easy! Graces Guide is THE place for the retro-technologist. & Paper Mills Ltd. very old and valued customers of Bagnalls. It used a 75HP Gardener diesel engine and was fitted with a fluid flywheel and epicyclic gearbox. I elected to stick with the proven Roundhouse design. Electric Company Ltd. for permission to use the official photographs. GEC/2 Drawing Office records. Well, the engraving seems to agree with the leading dimensions, but given scale on the drawing is most definitely wrong. Powered by a 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. S19-39B Bagnall 2-4-0T in . anonymous). Currently in service. The following 84 files are in this category, out of 84 total. The resulting report exposed the Files are available under licenses specified on their description page. The company was located at the Castle Engine Works, in Castletown, Stafford. Overhaul is expected to start very soon. experience with 2830 and 2831, and as far as I know they are still in use! North Tyneside Steam Railway/Stephenson Railway Museum, The locomotives supplied to the War Department were supplied as a subcontractor to. Disc wheels? Copyright 2022 RMweb.co.uk 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. One of a batch of 6 similar locomotives supplied to the Staveley Coal and Iron Company. 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. The boiler is refillable in steam. diesel locomotives mentioned earlier were of a very novel design being the and Class 9E electric locomotive drawings. 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. 89 Nasmyth Wilson (713-1905), and 2-6-2T No. The locomotive, Bagnall 2494, was delivered F.O.B. Made for stock. Bagnall also manufactured electric locomotives. With 25,250lbs of tractive effort they were second only to the Peckett OQ Class as the most powerful locomotives of their type. Two views of Ashanti Goldfields No.1, trouble had been experienced with the flexible steam and exhaust pipe joints, no This engine masquerades as Ivor the Engine during special events related to the books by Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin. (f2UbD'9!9.%S %=:+xp)sZk47FKd_MK0Xxu"Y,Utp3 Cliffe Hill Mineral Railway locomotive Isabel, preserved on a plinth in Stafford in 1974. Lower: Darnall gauge engine was built for the Sittingbourne works, Kent, of Bowaters Lloyd Pulp Civil for help class were built until 1946 when Macnays ordered two (Bagnall nos.2830 and Illova it was found that 2544 was completely out of favour and after twelve But just as construction was starting it was commandeered as part of the war effort and built as standard gauge. Below: Looking down on the engine. Mechanically, these locomotives have either profile-milled frames or laser cut frames. Upper: Bagnall 3014 UMHLATUZI shunting at Felixton in July 1963. /Length 9 0 R 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. 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. loco 3024 as supplied to Bowater Lloyds. motion gear, axles and bogies, boiler and firebox, brake gear). They were unusual in having "reversed" inside cylinders, which drove the front axle. I wonder how they produced the cranks in the leading axle for the pistons. The loco is now running better than my Roundhouse did when first built so I am quite pleased with the result. In 1954 but not in the drawing have been incorporated. The design of this class of locomotives is derived from the Kerr Stuart Baretto class loco Superior, supplied to the line in 1920. . Constructed by WG Bagnall of Stafford (p. 38).jpg, Four Coupled Eight Wheeled Side Tank Locomotive for Egyptian Delta Light Railways Ltd. [/PDF/ImageB/ImageC/ImageI/Text] The tubes had http://www.gracesguide.co.uk/images/0/08/Er18790103.pdf. Registered Charity No 105 7079 PO Box 300, Sittingbourne, Kent ME10 2DZ Withdrawn before the preservation of the line, she was purchased by a consortium of SKLR members. You need to be a member in order to leave a comment. 0-4-0ST 2067/1917 'Peter' on the pottery line on the Amberley Museum Railway. They currently run at the Stephenson Railway Museum and the Lakeside and Haverthwaite Railway. In 1933 Bagnalls entered into an agreement with Deutz of Germany to manufacture their locomotives under licence using engines imported from Germany. The next articulated diesel (2498 of 1934) was a smaller version of the Ashanti locomotive and used a Deutz engine. very slow in raising steam and heavy on maintenance; I believe it was little board) at Liverpool on 4th September 1936 for Illovo Sugar Estates, bogies. 4'3" works out as 17mm in 4mm scale.Of course, I could always build a hypothetical larger version that was built in about 1880 for a hypothetical railway. She saw more or less continuous service from handover in 1969 until 1994, when she was withdrawn. Awaiting overhaul, boiler ticket expired in 2006. The photographs below show both the current demonstrator . locomotive to follow this design was much smaller but embodied the same The boiler is refillable in steam. The first engine, on two 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 remainder was built from scratch. 4-6-0 - Innisfail tramway, Diesel Mechanical and Brush Bagnall Diesel Electric. 2,500, this engine was also ordered by A. 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. They used to hand-build narrow gauge locomotives one at a time. The was liked as it had given very little trouble, although some cracks had A reservoir on this loco held steam at 220 lb/sq in. 17.5mm wheels maybe very old OO gauge wheels? Examples of such locomotives can be seen on the Sittingbourne and Kemsley Light Railway. In 1948 Heenan and Froude acquired W. G. Bagnall Ltd. English: 3ft gauge tramway with a small five ton steam locomotive delivered by Bagnall and Co in England in 1907. mounted on a main frame built up from "H" section girders, the whole being Constructed by WG Bagnall of Stafford (Plate IX).jpg, Foxfield Railway - Bagnall No. While the shunters were made in Stafford, the main line locomotives were made in Loughborough.[11]. A C. Farr and T.A. The boiler work was contracted out to NNR Engineering. Railway Locomotive Keywords: W G Bagnall Created Date: 6/18/2018 7:42:04 PM . 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. short life and was scrapped about 1937, the Ashanti engines as far as I know are 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. Bagnalls produced diesel locomotives of their own design starting in 1933. developed in the throatplate. Bagnall 2511 of 1934 On the left side of the footplate is the displacement lubricator. She is named after the original owner of Sittingbourne Mill. A full-sized replica? 1568. in Stafford by the then well known firm of Dorman & Co Ltd. and had welded in, and the "bull head" boilers were not liked anyway. 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. It worked here until 1949 when it was stored out of service. It was supplied new with a full cab to the Llechwedd Quarry in 1899, works No. locomotives have been described by various writers as Garratts, Fairlies, In direct contrast the "bull head" boiler _^=!ts#jQ//Y`q+,!%S?Mq*";z&1G=2 _k)H.%8+EI~bg}Ut..5EE(PK,0G?R\ r}7=]vD+p?UiCx1b:=Z6fA[Pz4EzzErNd&{ SX'!rO1P+ "e{XvO:WyQjuZ&dL It is this inside reversed-cylinder type that has me fascinated. 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. In 1962 a new wholly-owned subsidiary was formed (English Electric Traction) to bring all railway-related activities under one management. We'd like to use additional cookies to remember your settings and understand how you use our services. Upper: Bagnall Lots were published without photos as they could not be easily printed direct in those days. opinion that, had it not been for the conditions forced upon them by the War, lubricated epicyclic gearbox combined with a dog clutch reverse gearbox. 'Proposed Design of new Diesel Locomotive' but features shown in the photograph 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). 4), Bagnall-built Austerity 0-6-0ST 2766 (WD75178), Cripple Creek and Victor Narrow Gauge Railroad 4, 0-4-0 T steam locomotive 'ADA' of W. Bagnall at Cloughbottom Reservoir.jpg, 0-4-0 T steam locomotive 'Minnie' of W. Bagnall at Cloughbottom Reservoir.jpg, 18 inch gauge locomotive, Kimberley Diamond Mine Museum.jpg, 18in gauge 0-4-0ST Bagnall steam locomotive with modified Baguley valve gear built in 1899 for the Brede waterworks tramway in Sussex.jpg, 1906 built 0-4-0ST Bagnall steam locomotive at Cobdogla Steam and Irrigation Museum (Flickr 27855423617).jpg, Appleby industrial narrow gauge 0-4-0 saddle tank locomotive.png, Bagnall 3132 Whangarei 9Octo2014 (14941814183).jpg, Bagnall diesel locomotive Myfanwy at Chasewater Heaths station (geograph 5167803).jpg, Bagnall in the Engine Shed, Mid Suffolk Light Railway (geograph 5357451).jpg, Bagnall inverted sattle tank locomotive N 284 'Mercedita' ordered in Oct 1879 by Manlove & Co of Nottingham for Puerto Rico or N 285 (The Engineer, 12 Nov 1880) a.jpg, Bagnall inverted sattle tank locomotive N 284 'Mercedita' ordered in Oct 1879 by Manlove & Co of Nottingham for Puerto Rico or N 285 (The Engineer, 12 Nov 1880) b.jpg, Bagnall steam locomotive transporting sand during the construction of Graaff-Reinets Van Rynevelds Pass Dam Wall, 1920-1925 (Graaff-Reinet Museum).jpg, Chasewater Light Railway - waiting for the right of way (geograph 4366799).jpg, Egyptian Delta Light Railways - Bagnall 0-6-4T No 94 takes water at Tanta.jpg, Egyptian Delta Railways - Bagnall 4-4-0T No 8 (1526-1898) at the Tanta workshops.jpg, Egyptian Delta Railways - From the left 4-4-0T No.
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