Joicey and Company Colliery 0-6-0 Locomotives in Great_Britain

Class unknown (Locobase 20243)

Data from "Colliery Tank Locomotives," The Engineer, Volume 61, No 3 (15 January 1886), p. 45. See also Colin E Mountford, "Running an Edwardian Railway", reproduced from Industrial Railway Record No 124 (March 1991), at [], last accessed 7 August 2017.

James Joicey and Company was the ultimate corporate form of J. and G. Joicey and Company, which was formed in 1828 to exploit coalfields in Tanfield Moor near Newcastle. Although the Engineer description reported that this engine "was designed to work the traffic on a heavy gradient from a colliery near Newcastle-on-Tyne [sic]". Thus, although the report does not specifically say, it seems likely that this relatively large saddle tank, produced at Joicey's Forth Banks West Foundry, served one or more of the many collieries the company then owned.

Its three sets of drivers were set outside of the plate frame and had prominent lozenge-shaped counterweights centered on the hub and not touching the wheels' rims. At the time, the colliery used four-ton "chaldron" waggons, which it would replace with 10 ton wooden hopper waggons after the turn of the century.