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The GWR Rheidol Tanks are a fleet of 2-6-2 T steam locomotives of the Great Western Railway design built between 1923 and 1924. They were designed by the railway's Chief Mechanical Engineer, Charles Collett , for working services on the Vale of Rheidol Railway between Aberystwyth and Devil's Bridge (Pontarfynach).
However a significant growth in tourism was under way, and the carriage of passengers soon became the principal traffic of the railway. It opened for mineral traffic in August 1902 and for passengers on 22 December 1902, [5] using two 2-6-2T locomotives built by Davies and Metcalfe and the aforementioned Rheidol, built by Bagnall. [6]
LMS Stanier 2-6-2T; LNER Class V1/V3; List of Vale of Rheidol Railway rolling stock; Lyd (locomotive) N. New South Wales Z26 class locomotive; NGR Class I 2-6-2T; NSB ...
Vale of Rheidol Railway: Static exhibit 4073 'Castle' ... Conversion from 2-6-2T 'Prairie' No. 5193, so has a smaller boiler than standard Moguls. [42] [43]
Vale of Rheidol Railway 2-6-2T No. 7 Owain Glyndŵr at Aberystwyth. The 2-6-2T layout was popular for large narrow gauge engines, but the design was modified to allow the use of a firebox much wider than the track gauge. A standard gauge 2-6-2T normally has inside frames and the firebox is placed between the second and third coupled axles. A ...
This is a list of past and present rolling stock used on the Vale of Rheidol Railway (Welsh: Rheilffordd Cwm Rheidol), a 1 ft 11 + 3 ⁄ 4 in (603 mm) narrow gauge heritage railway, opened in 1902, that runs for 11 + 3 ⁄ 4 miles (19 km) between Aberystwyth and Devil's Bridge in the county of Ceredigion, Wales.
All of the constituent companies and ten of the subsidiary companies owned locomotives, [1] ranging from the Taff Vale Railway which had 275 locomotives (one of which was not taken into GWR stock), to the Cleobury Mortimer and Ditton Priors Light Railway and the Gwendraeth Valleys Railway, with just two each. [2]
The locomotives of the Vale of Rheidol Railway, from the 2 ... Barry scrapyard-condition 2MT 2-6-0 No.78059 is being used as the basis for a new built 2MT 2-6-2T, to ...