Locomotives
In the early years the LMMR had a fleet of its own steam locomotives to work the line:
Builder | Works no. | Built | Wheels | Name | GWR no. | Notes |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
AB | 219 | 1880 | 0-4-0ST | - | - | Sold 1885 |
AB | 221 | 1880 | 0-6-0ST | John Waddell | - | Sold 1908 |
FW | 279 | 1885 | 0-6-0ST | Seymour Clarke | 969 | Withdrawn before 1948 |
AB | 199 | 1879 | 0-4-0ST | No. 104 Inveravon | - | To LMMR 1887 Boiler exploded 1889 |
P | 464 | 1888 | 0-6-0ST | Jeannie Waddell | - | To Great Mountain Colliery 1913 |
P | 475 | 1889 | 0-6-0ST | - | - | Sold 1896 |
BH | 884 | 1889 | 0-4-0ST | Burntisland | - | Sold by 1913 |
AE | 1448 | 1902 | 0-6-0T | Great Mountain | 944 | Withdrawn before 1948 |
AB | 1111 | 1907 | 0-6-0T | George Waddell | 312 | Withdrawn before 1948 |
AB | 1157 | 1908 | 0-6-0ST | E.J. Robertson Grant | - | Sold 1919 |
HC | 930 | 1911 | 0-6-0T | Ravelston | 803 | To British Railways 1948 Withdrawn 1951 |
HC | 912 | 1911 | 0-6-0ST | John Waddell | - | To Great Mountain Colliery c. 1919 |
HC | 977 | 1912 | 0-6-0T | Merkland | 937 | Withdrawn 1923 |
HC | 1032 | 1913 | 0-6-0T | Tarndune | 339 | Withdrawn before 1948 |
HC | 1214 | 1917 | 0-6-0ST | Hilda | 359 | To British Railways 1948 Withdrawn 1954 |
MW | 1982 | 1920 | 0-6-0T | Victory | 704 | Withdrawn before 1948 |
Following absorption by the Great Western Railway, pannier tanks were in common use on the line. These continued under British Railways until phasing out of steam in the 1960s. In 1965 0-6-0 PT 1607 of Llanelli shed 87F was purchased by the National Coal Board and worked at Cynheidre Colliery until 1969 when it was condemned with a cracked frame, and was subsequently scrapped on site. In the later years of the line Class 37 diesel locos were the staple diet as well as Class 08 diesel shunting locos (up until the closure of the Cynheidre North section).
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Famous quotes containing the word locomotives:
“The flower-fed buffaloes of the spring
In the days of long ago,
Ranged where the locomotives sing
And the prairie flowers lie low:”
—Vachel Lindsay (18791931)