North Wales Narrow Gauge Railways - Locomotives

Locomotives

Name Builder Type Date Works number Notes
Snowdon Ranger Vulcan Foundry 0-6-4T 1875 739 Single Fairlie locomotive. Scrapped 1917; major components used to repair Moel Tryfan
Moel Tryfan Vulcan Foundry 0-6-4T 1875 738 Single Fairlie locomotive. Transferred to the Welsh Highland Railway in 1922; scrapped by the Ffestiniog Railway in 1954
Beddgelert Hunslet 0-6-4ST 1878 206

Mainly worked the Bryngwyn branch. Scrapped 1906
Russell Hunslet 2-6-2T 1906 901 Ordered by the Portmadoc, Beddgelert and South Snowdon Railway, paid for by the North Wales Power & Traction Co Ltd, for the NWNGR and became part of the Welsh Highland Railway stock
Gowrie Hunslet 0-6-4T 1908 979 Single Fairlie locomotive; sold around 1915 for contractor work; scrapped after 1928

Read more about this topic:  North Wales Narrow Gauge Railways

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 (1879–1931)