Unspecified 0-6-0 Locomotives in Great_Britain

Class Castleshaw (Locobase 20084)

Data from "Contractor's Locomotive," Engineer, Volume 11, No 4 (11 March 1887), p. 191. Works number was 455 in April 1887..Productioni information from Frank Jux, Peckett and Sons, (Atlas Locomotive Works, Bristol) Locomotive Works List (Richmond, Surrey, England, December 1987, distributed by the Industrial Locomotive Society.), supplied in August 2022 by Allen Stanley from his extensive Rail Data Exchange collection.

A typical Peckett locomotive, this six-coupled saddle tank represented an XL class design that had all-inside motion, 12" or 13" cylinder diameters and 18" strokes. They were intended for colliery, shunting, and yard work.

Frank Jux's list shows that this particular engine was bound for Oldham, Lanacashire to serve the Oldham Corporation Water Works's Delph Station.

It was immediately followed in production by a sister engines destined for contractor T A Walker in Hootton, near Chester, in Cheshire.

Class Haig (Locobase 4876)

Data from Kerr, Stuart & Company's own web page at [] . This was one of the standard designs for industrial locomotives suitable for light rail (18-25 lb per yard) and for any gauge between 2' and standard.. See Wren for full description.

Class Stalham (Locobase 5895)

Data from Richard Marsden, "M&GN Fox Walker 0-6-0 Tank" on his LNER Encyclopedia website at [], last accessed 1 April 2021.

Locobase 20872 describes the original pair of saddle tanks delivered by Fox, Walker in 1877. Marsden notes the boiler difference, explaining "It appears that No. 16 had a number from boiler rebuilds."