Barry Railway / British Railways 0-6-0 Locomotives in Great_Britain

Class 15xx (Locobase 6335)

Data from "Section 7 - Locomotive History and Specification", 1501 Pannier Tank Association website at [], last accessed 19 April 2019. Also [] and [] (all seen 5 November 2004). Smith's heating surface is the only example available to Locobase, although some of the figures may be rounded.

According to John Daniel's Great Western listing, these were the only pannier tanks with outside cylinders; they were fed by piston valves. A long-time engineman observed:"We used to say they were 94xx [Locobase 6334] with outside motion, and no pump. I felt they never built many of them because they certainly had no 'guts'. It didn't matter how much throttle you gave them, if they could not pull the load they just stalled."

Mostly because all pannier tanks were being withdrawn, the first of the 1500s (1509) was retired in August 1959. The others followed over the next four years with 1500, 1503, 1506, and 1507 going in December 1963.

Three went to work at Coventry Colliery under the aegis of the National Coal Board. Two were scrapped in 1970, but 1501 survived to be preserved after being surveyed by the Warwickshire Railway Society and the Severn Valley Railway Company. It has enjoyed a long second career that included a three-year overhaul from October 2009 to August 2012. Its performance on the SVR earned it the sobriquet "The Raging Bull".

Class 16xx (Locobase 6336)

Data from Wikipedia [] . See also []; and "1600 0-6-0T BR Hawksworth 1600 - 1669" on the Preserved British Steam Locomotives at [], last accessed 22 February 2024.

According to John Daniel's Great Western listing, the 1600s were used for tight-clearance switching and dockside service. Delivered over a 6 -year period, most were barely in service for 10 years. [] (5 November 2004) notes that many of the class operated in South Wales, but others were scattered from Cornwall to Scotland.

All but two remained in service on GWR metals until their retirements in the mid-1960s. 1600 and 1607 were sold off earlier to industrial operators.

According to John Daniel's Great Western listing, the 1600s were used for tight-clearance switching and dockside service. Delivered over a 6 -year period, most were barely in service for 10 years. [] (5 Nov 2004) notes that many of the class operated in South Wales, but others were scattered from Cornwall to Scotland.

Class F/708 (GWR) (Locobase 10489)

Data from "The Barry Ry Locomotives and Works," The Locomotive Magazine, Volume XI [11] (15 February 1905), p. 27; and "Barry Railway", The Locomotive Magazine, Volume XXIX [29] (15 February 1923), p. 36-39. Builder information from Wikipedia entry [], last accessed 7 February 2016.

Builder Year No built Works numbers Barry Numbers

Sharp Stewart 1890 3 3607-3609 47-49

Vulcan Foundry 1892 2 1346-1347 64-65

1894-1895 3 4500-4502 70-72

1900 8 4593-4600 37,52, 99-104

North British 1905 6 16628-16633 127-132

Hudswell Clarke 1905 6 712-717 133-138

This class of shunters was described as indispensable to the Barry in view of all the dockside rail car movement the system needed.

The Wikipedia table lists the Great Western numbers assigned in 1922.

As the Great Western jettisoned the class in 1926-1936, only six--710, 716, 777-779, and 807--did not find new homes in collieries, ironworks, and other industrial settings. All served until the 1950s and most into the middle 1960s.