Following the retirement of George England Senior in 1869, the Hatcham Iron Works was taken over by George England Junior and Robert Fairlie, trading as The Fairlie Engine and Steam Carriage Company. The company produced only a small number of locomotives before closing. The works were sold in 1872.
1869
Works no. n/k / 0-4-4-0T / Outside cylinders 8.25" × 13" / Driving wheel 2ft 4in / 1ft 11.5in gauge / Festiniog Railway / No. 7 Little Wonder
The celebrated double-bogie Fairlie patent locomotive, built to demonstrate Robert Fairlie's design on the Festiniog Railway. Its success led to worldwide interest in the Fairlie system and to the building of more than 330 patent locomotives exported to 21 countries.
1869
Works no. n/k / 0-4-4-0T / Cylinders n/k / Driving wheel n/k / Standard gauge / Purchased by England from James Cross (not built at Hatcham; built by James Cross in 1865 for the Neath and Brecon Railway) / Progress
"According to Engineering for 11th June 1869, p.406, England had purchased from James Cross of St Helens the engine Progress. It had been built three or four years ago and has recently become the property of Mr England. What he did with it, I do not know, unless he altered it and sold it under another name. Was it the Fairlie engine which went to the Chemin de fer de la Vendee?"
G.H. Dickson, SLS Journal, 1961, p.211.
1869
Steam Car (details not recorded)
1869/1870
Works no. n/k / 0-4-4-0T / Outside cylinders 10" × 18" / Driving wheel 3ft 6in / Standard gauge / Nassjo Oscarshamn Railway (Sweden) / Pioneer (later renamed Mountaineer, for the Burry Port and Gwendraeth Valley Railway in South Wales)
Two locomotives of the 0-4-4-0 type were ordered by the Nassjo-Oscarshamn Railway in Sweden, but the first, when completed in December 1869, was sold instead to the Burry Port and Gwendraeth Valley Railway in South Wales. In 1877 it was tried on the severe gradients of the Pantyffynon to Rhos line of the Great Western Railway. It appears to have been dismantled at Burry Port before 1900.
The second locomotive was delivered to Sweden to the British contractor J. Morton and Sons and named Morton. After the failure of this firm it was transferred to their successors Clark, Punchard and Co., who renamed it Clark. It later carried No. 1 of the railway. When taken over by NOJ in 1874 it was renamed Hultenhein. It ceased work in 1902 after a boiler explosion.
Dimensions for both locomotives: cylinders 10 inch diameter by 18 inch stroke; wheels 3ft 6in diameter; bogie wheelbase 5ft; total wheelbase 19ft 6in; boiler barrels 8ft 6in long by 2ft 10in diameter; heating surface of tubes 763 sq ft; fireboxes 70 sq ft; total heating surface 833 sq ft; grate area 11 sq ft; water tank capacity 700 gallons; coal bunker capacity 15cwt; total weight 25 tons.
The Fairlie Locomotive, Rowland A.S. Abbott, David and Charles, 1970.
1870
Works no. n/k / 0-4-4-0T / Outside cylinders 10" × 18" / Driving wheel 3ft 6in / Standard gauge / Chemin de fer de la Vendee (France) / Angleterre
"A curious error in the list of engines taken over from the Chemins de fer de la Vendee points to George England as the builder of their one and only Fairlie locomotive. All the other engines taken over are listed under the maker's name, but in the case of the Fairlie locomotive there is merely the mention of Angleterre. I am quite convinced that this is an error, the name of the builder being taken for that of the country of origin. It might have been Cross's engine Progress which England purchased."
G.H. Dickson, SLS Journal, 1961, p.212. Note: Grahame Hood adds: Unsure if this is correct.