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Locomotives built by the Vulcan Foundry of Newton-le-Willows, latterly part of the English Electric group. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Vulcan Foundry locomotives . Pages in category "Vulcan Foundry locomotives"
Chinese KF7, built by Vulcan, in the National Railway Museum in York Vulcan Foundry works plate No. 3977 of 1926 on LMS Fowler Class 3F No. 47406 in 2012. Details of the earliest locomotives are not precisely known despite an "official" list apparently concocted in the 1890s which contains a lot of guesswork and invention, with many quite fictitious locomotives, for the period before 1845.
Locomotives from the National Collection in the Great Hall of the UK National Railway Museum. The UK National Collection is a collection of around 280 historic rail vehicles (predominantly of British origin). The majority of the collection is kept at four national museums: National Railway Museum, York; Locomotion, Shildon
Vulcan Foundry (25) Schneider & Cie. (10) 1859–66 [3] 20 later rebuilt as 4-4-0 between 1876–78; ... Locomotives built to GER designs after 1922: LNER 7999: N7
Vulcan (Tayleur 51; 1837–1868) This locomotive was the first to run on the Great Western Railway when it was tested on 28 December 1837 from its shed at West Drayton . It was withdrawn in 1843 but was rebuilt as a 2-2-2T tank locomotive and returned to service in 1846, running in this form until 1868.
Moel Tryfan was a narrow gauge steam locomotive built for use on the North Wales Narrow Gauge Railways (NWNGRs) in 1874/5. The locomotive was an 0-6-4 T single Fairlie locomotive built by the Vulcan Foundry near Manchester. [1] It spent its entire working life on the NWNGRs and its successors the Welsh Highland Railway (WHR) and the Ffestiniog ...
The locomotives were designed for the 1,668 mm (5 ft 5 + 21 ⁄ 32 in) Iberian gauge and larger loading gauge than possible in United Kingdom. The first ten were built in England at the Vulcan Foundry in Newton-le-Willows , with the remaining locomotives assembled in Portugal by Sorefame . [ 2 ]
D0226 and D0227 were two prototype diesel shunting locomotives built in 1956 by English Electric at its Vulcan Foundry in Newton-le-Willows to demonstrate its wares to British Railways. They originally carried numbers D226 and D227, their Vulcan Foundry works numbers, but these were amended in August 1959 to avoid clashing with the numbers of ...