Cardiff 0-6-2 Locomotives in Great_Britain

Class unknown (Locobase 6321)

Data from chart of locomotives in service on 3 colliery lines on 1 Jan 1948 published on [] (viewed 12 Oct 2004).

Although seen on the Lambton site, this class came originally from the Cardiff Railway, a line incorporated in 1897 by the Bute Docks Company. Since the two locomotives in the Lambton table have earlier building dates (3069 in 1887 and 3580 in 1894), they either served the docks before the CR was organized or they came from another railway through purchase. In any case, they are small versions of the standard Kitson radial tank built in the hundreds for coal railways in South Wales.

The CR's 11 1/2 miles of main line put it at a disadvantage with larger lines such as the Taff Vale and the Rhymney. So it was probably with some relief that the line was sold to the Great Western in 1921.

At that time, this class of radial tanks were renumbered in the 150 series.

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Class unknown (Locobase 10687)

Data from "Railway Notes -- Cardiff Ry", The Locomotive Magazine, Vol XV (15 February 1909), p. 22 and 15 December 1909, p. 222.

These were three of the many "Welsh 0-6-2T" type that dominated motive power rosters on the short-haul coal and dock railways of the early 20th Century. The Cardiffs differed somewhat in having Belpaire fireboxes.