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Dampflokomotiven[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]

Number Achsfolge Baujahr Hersteller Baureihe Betriebsfähig Bild Notes
K1 1909 Beyer, Peacock and Company K Ja
Ex Tasmanian Government Railways K class, the world's first Garratt locomotive. Restored and entered service in autumn 2006. Converted to coal firing. Operational after being overhauled in 2020. On loan to Statfold Barn Railway.[1]
87 1937 Cockerill NGG16 Ja
Ex South African Railways NGG 16 Class Garratt. Spent much of its working life in South Africa until it was replaced by diesel traction. Purchased from Exmoor Steam Centre, who imported it to the UK. Underwent a major restoration at Boston Lodge Works. Coal fired. Initially outshopped in photographic grey livery on completion in 2009 and was then painted into midnight blue livery from March 2010. Ten-yearly overhaul was completed in 2020, with the locomotive now painted in South African Railways black with SAR/SAS logo on the coal bunker.[2]
109 1939 Beyer, Peacock and Company NGG16 Nein Ex South African Railways NGG16 Class Garratt. Purchased in 2009 from Exmoor Steam Railway by pop music producer and rail enthusiast Pete Waterman for use on the WHR. Initially it was overhauled at Waterman's LNWR heritage works in Crewe by apprentices as part of their studies. It was moved to Dinas on the Welsh Highland Railway in January 2014 after it was unable to be completed at Crewe because the government pulled out of the apprenticeship scheme. Stored awaiting restoration.
130 1951 Beyer, Peacock and Company NGG16 Ja
Ex South African Railways NGG16 Class Garratt. Purchased in 2014 from Exmoor Steam Railway by Steam Powered Services and currently owned by Peter Best. A new boiler has been constructed at the South Devon Railway (heritage railway) whilst the power units have been rebuilt at Dinas. Having first moved under its own steam on 5 February 2021,[3] the locomotive hauled its first (private) passenger train on 30 April 2021. [4] Currently painted in a "Burrell Plum" livery.[5]
133 1953 Société Anglo-Franco-Belge NG15 Nein
Ex South African Railways NG15 Class Unrestored. In 2009 the loco was displayed in Caernarfon town square to collect donations for the restoration of its sister loco, number 134.
134 1953 Société Anglo-Franco-Belge NG15 Nein Ex South African Railways NG15 Class. Under restoration at Dinas. Some preparatory works had been carried out on 134 between 1999 and 2006, however, following the return to service of K1 in 2006 the restoration of 134 has been restarted in earnest. The frames were re-wheeled in February 2021.[6]
138 1958 Beyer, Peacock and Company NGG16 Nein
Ex South African Railways NGG16 Class Garratt, red livery. Entered service in 1997 in unlined dark green, then malachite green as of 2002 when it was named, withdrawn in late 2007 and stripped for 10 year boiler inspection. Re-entered service in 2010 in crimson lake livery. Withdrawn in 2020 for a ten-yearly overhaul.
140 1958 Beyer, Peacock and Company NGG16 Nein Ex South African Railways NGG 16 Class Garratt, red livery. Currently dismantled and awaiting restoration at Dinas. After initial work done at Dinas, 140's boiler has been overhauled by Peter Waterman's LNWR works. In 2010 140's boiler was restored for use on 143, in order to speed up that locomotive's overhaul.
143 1958 Beyer, Peacock and Company NGG16 Nein
Ex South African Railways NGG16 Class Garratt, green livery. This was the last locomotive built by Beyer, Peacock and Company in Manchester. Entered service in plain black livery in 1998, but was due for boiler recertification in 2009. 143's bogies were both taken out of service and the loco ran on 138's bogies until it left service. 143 re-entered service in 2011 in green livery for the Fairlies, Garratts and Mallets competition. A major overhaul on its power units was completed in May 2016, taking 18 months. Withdrawn from service in 2020, awaiting a replacement boiler for a new ten year ticket.

Diesellokomotiven[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]

Number Name Wheel arrangement Date built Hersteller Bild Notes
Castell Caernarfon B-B 1967 CH Funkey & Co
This 335 hp diesel hydraulic locomotive was built for work in a diamond mine and was later used for cement traffic at Port Elizabeth, South Africa. It is one of a pair imported by the Ffestiniog Railway, the other (Vale of Ffestiniog) being re-bodied to fit the FR loading gauge. It was the first locomotive to be moved to Dinas, in January 1997. In service on newly refurbished bogies. Unlike other diesels purchased by the Ffestiniog Railway Company and named bilingually after Northern Welsh castles, 'Castell Caernarfon' is named in Welsh only.
Upnor Castle Vorlage:Whyte 1954 F.C. Hibberd
This 180 hp Gardner 6LXB diesel-engined locomotive was built for R.N. Chattenden and Upnor Railway. Sold to Welshpool and Llanfair Railway in 1962 and to the Ffestiniog Railway in 1968 and re-gauged. Transferred Dinas, in August 1997 for use on reconstruction work.
Castell Conwy/Conway Castle Vorlage:Whyte 1958 F.C. Hibberd
This 180 hp Gardner 6LXB diesel-engined locomotive was built for RNAD Ernesettle, Plymouth. Bought by the Ffestiniog Railway in 1981 and re-gauged, it was re-bodied and overhauled at Boston Lodge in 1986 and frequently used on 'pull and push' trains. After several years on light duties a new engine was fitted in October 1999. Transferred to Dinas, in April 2000 for use as a stand-by on passenger engine. Used also on civil engineering rosters.
Castell Cidwm, originally No 9 Vorlage:Whyte 1953 Baguley Purchased in summer 2009 for use on works trains from a private buyer. The locomotive has a Gardner 8LW diesel engine de-rated to 132 hp. Built by Baguley as a 2 ft gauge locomotive with the builders number 2395.

It was built for the Drewry Car Co, for Underhill Day & Co, for the South Johnstone Co-operative Sugar Milling Association in Australia. The mill gave it the number 9 and used it to work sugar cane wagons in Innisfail district of Far North Queensland.

In 2004 the locomotive was purchased by a member of the Lynton & Barnstaple Trust, who shipped it from Australia in 2005. It is believed to have been stored in Essex and in Somerset before being moved to the Exmoor Steam Railway. The locomotive will be overhauled and re-gauged before entering service.[7]

Bill, Hunslet 9248 Vorlage:Whyte 1985 Hunslet Arrived on the WHR 18 February 2010. A Vorlage:RailGauge gauge four-wheel 115 hp Ford-engined diesel hydraulic 15-ton flameproofed 4wDH locomotive previously used at the Corus Coated Products Division plant at Shotton, to be regauged for use on the WHR as a heavy shunter on the Boston Lodge and Dinas yards.
Ben, Hunslet 9262 Vorlage:Whyte 1985 Hunslet Arrived on the WHR 18 February 2010. Almost identical to Bill.
Dolgarrog Vorlage:Whyte 1962 Simplex A small Simplex locomotive loaned to the WHR by Innogy that has been used on construction trains, particularly on the Phase 4 section between Vorlage:Stnlnk and Vorlage:Stnlnk.

Einzelnachweise[Bearbeiten | Quelltext bearbeiten]

Vorlage:Reflist

  1. Steam locomotive K1 to return to steam? In: www.railadvent.co.uk. 24. Dezember 2019, abgerufen am 24. Dezember 2019.
  2. Michael Holden: Photos reveal new look for steam locomotive 87. In: RailAdvent. 27. Januar 2020, abgerufen am 28. Januar 2020 (britisches Englisch).
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