Llechwedd Quarry - Locomotives

Locomotives

Name Type Builder Date Works number Notes
Freda 0-4-0 VB De Winton 1874 Sold to Tonfananu quarry 1898; scrapped about 1906
0-4-0 VB De Winton 1879 Sold or scrapped around 1898
Edith 0-4-0 IST W.G. Bagnall 1890 1278 Converted to Coalition, 1930
Margaret 0-4-0 IST W.G. Bagnall 1895 1445 Converted to The Eclipse, 1927
Dorothy 0-4-0 ST W.G. Bagnall 1899 1568 Stored out of use by 1963
No. 1 4wBE Wingrove & Rogers 1922 302
No. 2 4wBE Wingrove & Rogers 1922
Welsh Pony 4wBE Wingrove & Rogers 1926 Out of use 1964
The Eclipse 0-4-0E Llechwedd 1927 Electric locomotive built on the chassis of Margaret at the quarry. Supplied from overhead electrical wires
The Coalition 0-4-0E Llechwedd 1930 Electric locomotive built on the chassis of Edith at the quarry. Supplied from overhead electrical wires
No. 3 4wBE Wingrove & Rogers 1935
4wPM Llechwedd 1936 Built at the quarry from a Morris road lorry; out of use by 1964
4wBE Wingrove & Rogers 1936 918 Ex Maen Offeren quarry 1947 Later returned to, and now out of use at, Maen Offeren Quarry

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