Locomotives Built at Hatcham Iron Works: 1856-1861

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Compiled by Grahame Hood. Format: Year / Works No. / Wheel arrangement / Cylinders / Driving wheel / Gauge / Operator / Name or number.

1856

Works no. 139 / 2-2-2WT / Inside cylinders 14" × 19" / Driving wheel 4ft 6in / Standard gauge / Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway / No. 123 Carlisle

1856

Works no. n/k / 2-4-0 / Outside cylinders 15.5" × 20" / Driving wheel 5ft 0in / Standard gauge / South Yorkshire Railway / No. 13

1856

Works no. n/k / 2-4-0 / Outside cylinders 15.5" × 18" / Driving wheel 5ft 0in / Standard gauge / London and South Western Railway Engineering Dept. / Hawkshaw

1857

Works nos. n/k / 2-2-2 and 0-6-0 types / Various cylinders / 5ft 3in gauge / Geelong and South Suburban Railway / Nos. 1–5

1857

Works no. n/k / 0-4-0WT / Outside cylinders 9" × 12" / Driving wheel 3ft 0in / Standard gauge / Sandy and Potton Railway / Shannon

Built for Captain Sir William Peel RN VC, at a cost of £800. Named after the steam frigate he commanded. Captain Peel never saw his railway in operation, dying at Cawnpore on 20th April 1858 after service in the Indian Mutiny. Shannon later passed to the LNWR, then to the Wantage Tramway, where she gave many years of service. She was preserved in 1946 and placed on display at Wantage Road GWR station.

Reg Wilkinson, The Wantage Tramway, Oakwood Press, 2nd Edition, 1995; The Railway Magazine, November 1975, p.579; The Railway Magazine, August 1957, p.588.

1858

Works no. n/k / 2-4-0 / Outside cylinders 15" × 18" / Driving wheel 5ft 0in / Standard gauge / London and South Western Railway Engineering Dept. / Brunel

1859

Works nos. 142, n/k (×3) / 2-2-2 / Cylinders 14" × 22" / Driving wheel 6ft 6in / 5ft 3in gauge / Victorian Government Railway / Nos. 12, 13, 15, 17

1859

Works nos. n/k (×6) / 2-4-0WT / Cylinders 11" × 17" / Driving wheel 4ft 0in / 5ft 6in gauge / Bombay, Baroda and Central India Railway

Six ballasting engines were ordered, two of which were shipped and arrived by January 1860. On 2nd November 1859, news reached London that the ship Jessica, containing the other four engines, had been abandoned at sea and was a total loss. The four lost engines were not reordered from George England, being replaced by four similar engines built by the Vulcan Foundry (Nos. 449–452 of 1860).

C.H. Dickson, SLS Journal, 1962, p.144.

1859

Works no. n/k / 2-4-0 / Outside cylinders 15" × 18" / Driving wheel 5ft 0in / Standard gauge / London and South Western Railway Engineering Dept. / Hesketh

1860

Works nos. 160, 161 / 2-4-0T / Cylinders 15" × 20" / Driving wheel n/k / 5ft 3in gauge / Melbourne and Suburban Railway / Hawthorn, Richmond

1860

Works nos. n/k / 2-4-0T / Outside cylinders 15" × 22" / Driving wheel 4ft 0in / Standard gauge / London and Blackwall Railway / Nos. 10, 11

In 1866 renumbered 101 and 102 by the Great Eastern Railway. Scrapped January and February 1882 respectively.

H.L. Hopwood, The London and Blackwall Railway, Railway Magazine, January–June 1927, pp.341–342.

1861

Works nos. 156, 157, 158, 159, 164, 165, 166 / 2-4-0ST / Cylinders 16" × 22" / Driving wheel 5ft 0in / 5ft 3in gauge / Victorian Government Railway / Nos. 14, 16, 18, 20, 22, 24, 26

1861

Works nos. n/k / 2-4-0 / Outside cylinders 14" × 18" / Driving wheel 5ft 0in / Standard gauge / London and South Western Railway Engineering Dept. / Locke, Stephenson

C.H. Dickson, SLS Journal, 1961, p.144.

1861

Works nos. n/k / 2-4-0 / Outside cylinders 16" × 18" / Driving wheel 5ft 0in / Standard gauge / London and South Western Railway Engineering Dept. / Smeaton, Telford

C.H. Dickson, SLS Journal, 1961, pp.144–145.

1861

Works no. n/k / 2-4-0T / Outside cylinders 11" × 16" / Driving wheel 3ft 10in / Standard gauge / London and South Western Railway Engineering Dept. / Scott

Purchased for £1,890 on 23rd January 1862. Broken up June 1909.

C.H. Dickson, SLS Journal, 1961, p.145.

1861

Works nos. n/k / 2-4-0 and 2-4-0T types / Inside cylinders 15" × 18" / Driving wheel 5ft 0in / Standard gauge / Somerset Central Railway / Nos. 1–8

Eight four-coupled engines at £1,850 each and six four-wheel tenders at £300 each, ordered for delivery in August and September 1861. Construction went ahead as scheduled: by 1st July, the six tenders and four of the engines were assembled and awaiting delivery.

Somerset and Dorset Locomotive History, D. Bradley and D. Milton, David and Charles, 1973, p.17 onwards.

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