Llanelly and Mynydd Mawr Railway - Locomotives

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FW 279 1885 0-6-0ST Seymour Clarke 969 Withdrawn before 1948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AE 1448 1902 0-6-0T Great Mountain 944 Withdrawn before 1948
AB 1111 1907 0-6-0T George Waddell 312 Withdrawn before 1948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Withdrawn 1951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HC 977 1912 0-6-0T Merkland 937 Withdrawn 1923
HC 1032 1913 0-6-0T Tarndune 339 Withdrawn before 1948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Withdrawn 1954
MW 1982 1920 0-6-0T Victory 704 Withdrawn before 1948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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