Power type Steam Builder Sharp, Stewart & Co. Build date 1901 | Designer Sharp, Stewart & Co. Serial number 4794–4796 Total produced 3 | |
The Sharp Stewart 0-8-2T locomotives were 0-8-2T steam tank locomotives designed and built by Sharp, Stewart and Company for the Port Talbot Railway and Docks Company, south Wales. Three were built in 1901, works nos. 4794 - 4796. They were numbered 17-19 and became Great Western Railway numbers 1358-1360.
These were unusually large locomotives for their time and place. Most of the railways of South Wales relied on 0-6-2T tank locomotives.
Number 1360 was withdrawn in November 1926, followed by 1359 in December 1935. Number 1358 survived to be taken over by British Railways on 1 January 1948 but was withdrawn on 29 February 1948. None of these locomotives has been preserved.
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Port Talbot Railway 0-8-2T (Sharp Stewart) Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA