Irish Mail is typical of many small engines built at Hunslet for use in quarries

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The early years 1864-1901

In 1871, James Campbell bought the company for £25,000 (payable in five installments over two years) and the firm remained in the Campbell family ownership for many years. Between 1865 and 1870, production had averaged less than ten engines per year but in 1871 this had risen to seventeen and was set to rise over the next thirty years to a modest maximum of thirty-four. 1871 (MDCCCLXXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 1865 (MDCCCLXV) is a common year starting on Sunday. ... 1870 (MDCCCLXX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday of the 12-day slower Julian calendar). ...

The first engine built in 1865 was Linden a standard gauge 0-6-0 saddle tank delivered to Brassey and Ballard a railway civil engineering contractor as were several of the firm's early customers. Other customers included collieries. This basic standard gauge shunting and short haul 'industrial' engine was to be the main-stay of Hunslet production for many years. From the start, Hunslet regularly sent fitters to carry out repairs to its engines on customer's premises and this is a service that the Hunslet Engine Company were still offering in 2006, over 140 years after their establishment. As railways developed and expanded one of the key issues to be decided was that of the rail gauge (the distance between the two rails of the track) which should be used. ... 0-6-0 is also the emergency telephone number in Mexico, similar to the United Statess 9-1-1. ... A tank locomotive (occasionally tank engine, especially in England, notably used in reference to Thomas the Tank Engine) is a steam locomotive that carries its own fuel and water on it, instead of pulling it behind it in a tender. ...

Dolbadarn built for the Dinorwic Slate Quarry in 1922 and now on the Llanberis Lake Railway

. In 1870, Hunslet constructed their first narrow gauge engine Dinorwic, a diminutive 1 ft 10³⁄₄ in (578 mm) gauge 0-4-0 saddle tank for the Dinorwic Slate Quarry at Llanberis. This engine later renamed Charlie was the first of twenty similar engines built for this quarry and did much to establish Hunslet as a major builder of quarry engines. This quarry was linked to Port Dinorwic by a 4 ft (1219 mm) gauge line for which Hunslet built three 0-6-0T engines Dinorwic, Padarn and Velinheli. Much larger than the normal quarry type, 1 ft 10³⁄₄ in (578 mm) gauge 0-4-0ST engines Charles, Blanche and Linda were built in 1882/3 for use on the Penrhyn Quarry Railway 'main line' between Bethesda and Port Penrhyn in North Wales. Two of these still operate on the Ffestiniog Railway while Charles is preserved in the Penrhyn Castle Railway Museum. Image File history File links Metadata No higher resolution available. ... Image File history File links Metadata No higher resolution available. ... The loco “Dolbadarn” pulls into the Llanberis station which was opened in June 2003. ... Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, 0-4-0 represents one of the simplest possible types, that with two axles and four wheels, all of which are driven. ... Viven quarry, part of the Dinorwic Quarry The Dinorwic Slate Quarry is a large slate quarry located between the town of Llanberis and the village of Dinorwig in north Wales. ... Llanberis is a village in Gwynedd, Wales, lying beside the Llyn Padarn lake in Snowdonia. ... Y Felinheli is a small town in Gwynedd , north Wales, lying between Bangor and Caernarfon alongside the Menai Strait. ... The Penrhyn Quarry Railway first opened in 1798 as the Llandegai Tramway; it became the Penrhyn Railway in 1801 although on a different route. ... Bethesda, the name of a pool in the New Testament, has been adopted as a name by many other places and things. ... Port Penrhyn (Welsh Porth Penrhyn) is a harbour located just east of Bangor in north Wales at the mouth of the River Cegin. ... Approximate extent of North Wales North Wales (known in some archaic texts as Northgalis) is the northernmost unofficial region of Wales, bordered to the south by Mid Wales. ... The Ffestiniog Railway (in Welsh Rheilffordd Ffestiniog) is a narrow-gauge heritage railway, located in North West Wales. ... The Penrhyn Castle Railway Museum is a museum of industrial railway equipment, located at Penrhyn Castle near Bangor in Wales. ...

The first Hunslet engine built for export was their No. 10, an 0-4-0ST shipped via Hull and Rotterdam to Java. Remarkably, the last industrial steam engine built in Britain was also built at Hunslet in 1971 and also for export to Java. This engine later returned to Britain and is preserved in working order. A large number of short wheelbase tank locomotives (0-6-0) were supplied to the Manchester Ship Canal Company and one of thes (No.686 of 1898 'St. John') still survives on the Severn Valley Railway and is still in regular use as a 'Thomas The Tank Engine' lookalike. By 1902, Hunslet had supplied engines to over thirty countries world-wide, often opening-up new markets. In Ireland, Hunslet supplied engines to several of the newly opened narrow gauge lines and also in 1887 built the three remarkably unorthodox engines for the Lartigue Monorail system used by the Listowel & Ballybunion Railway. Hull or Kingston upon Hull is a British city situated on the north bank of the Humber estuary. ... Nickname: Motto: Sterker door strijd (Stronger through Struggle) Location of Rotterdam Coordinates: , Country Netherlands Province South Holland Government  - Mayor Ivo Opstelten  - Aldermen Jeannette Baljeu Hamit Karakus Orhan Kaya Lucas Bolsius Jantine Kriens Dominic Schrijer Roelf de Boer Leonard Geluk Area [1]  - City 319 km²  (123. ... Java (Indonesian, Javanese, and Sundanese: Jawa) is an island of Indonesia and the site of its capital city, Jakarta. ... Year 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1971 Gregorian calendar. ... 0-6-0 is also the emergency telephone number in Mexico, similar to the United Statess 9-1-1. ... The canal at its Manchester end, looking towards Old Trafford. ... LMS Ivatt Class 2MT 2-6-0 no. ... Thomas the Tank Engine This article is about the fictional tank engine. ... 1902 (MCMII) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar). ... 1887 (MDCCCLXXXVII) is a common year starting on Saturday (click on link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Monday of the Julian calendar. ... The Lartigue Monorail system was invented by the French engineer Charles Lartigue (1834-1907). ... Bridge over the River Feale at Listowel Listowel Castle Listowel (Lios Tuathail, Tuthails fort, in Irish) is a market town in County Kerry, Ireland, and is situated on the River Feale, 28 km (17 miles) from the county town, Tralee. ... Ballybunion (Irish: Baile an Bhuinneánaigh) is a coastal village in County Kerry, Ireland, 15 km (9 miles) from the town of Listowel. ...

Change and development in the Twentieth Century

By 1901, James Campbell was still in charge as proprietor and James's four sons were, by then all working for the company including the eldest son Alexander III who had taken over as Works Manager on the death of his Uncle George in 1890. However in 1902, the company was reorganised as a private limited company with the name Hunslet Engine Company Ltd. but still a family business. Following the death of James Campbell in 1905, the chairmanship passed to Alexander III and brother Robert became works manager, whilst brother Will retained the role of secretary and traveller with a seat on the board. Year 1901 (MCMI) was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will display calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Monday [1] of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... 1890 (MDCCCXC) was a common year starting on Wednesday (see link for calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar). ... 1905 (MCMV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display the full calendar). ...

About this time Hunslet was building a series of 2-6-2 tank locomotives for the Sierra Leone Government Railway design elements of which were included in the construction of the famous Russell a 1 ft 11¹⁄₂ in (597 mm) gauge engine built for the Portmadoc, Beddgelert and South Snowdon Railway, which later became a constituent company of the Welsh Highland Railway. A Pairie type built for the Burlington by Baldwin. ... A tank locomotive (occasionally tank engine, especially in England, notably used in reference to Thomas the Tank Engine) is a steam locomotive that carries its own fuel and water on it, instead of pulling it behind it in a tender. ... The Sierra Leone Government Railway was unusual in that it formed a national railway system constructed solely to 26 (762mm) rail gauge. ... Russell running on the Welsh Highland Railway in 1995 Russell is a narrow gauge steam locomotive originally built for the North Wales Narrow Gauge Railways (NWNGR), but most famously associated with the Welsh Highland Railway (WHR) Russell has a complex history. ... The Portmadoc, Beddgelert & South Snowdon Railway was incorporated in 1901 but never opened to traffic. ... The route of the WHR. The Welsh Highland Railway (WHR) is a narrow gauge railway in Wales, which originally ran from Dinas near Caernarfon to Porthmadog, with a branch line to Bryngwyn and the slate quarries at Moel Tryfan. ...

Following family disagreements both Will and the youngest brother Gordon soon left the company and a serious injury left Robert disabled and unable to continue as works manager. The post of works manager was advertised and Edgar Alcock, then assistant works manager at the Gorton works of Beyer-Peacock, was appointed in 1912. Alcock came to Hunslet at a time of change when the industry was being asked for far larger and more powerful locomotives than had ever been required in the past. This was true at Hunslet which found its overseas customers asking for very large engines. However by 1914, Britain was at war and overseas orders had dried up. During that was, the company, like many others, found itself employing women on the shop floor and engaged in the manufacture of munitions. Beyer-Peacock Locomotive manufacturer with factory in Manchester from 1854 untill 1966. ... 1912 (MCMXII) was a leap year starting on Monday in the Gregorian calendar (or a leap year starting on Tuesday in the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ... Year 1914 (MCMXIV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will display the full calendar) of the Gregorian calendar (or a common year starting on Wednesday of the 13-day-slower Julian calendar). ...

After the war, trading conditions were very difficult but Hunslet were once more able to attract overseas orders and they also received a series of repeat orders from the London, Midland and Scottish Railway for a total of 90 LMS Fowler Class 3F 'Jinty' 0-6-0T shunting engines. It was during the 1930s that Hunslet built their largest locomotives. These two 0-8-0 tank engines, built for a special train-ferry loading job in China (which they fulfilled for many years) were at that date the largest and most powerful tank engines ever built. A year or so later the same design formed the basis for an 0-8-0 tender engine for India. Many other 'large-engine' orders were received in these inter-war years. The London, Midland and Scottish Railway (LMS1) was a British railway company. ... Preserved 47493 on the Spa Valley Railway with a demonstration freight train. ... Face The 1930s (years from 1930–1939) were described as an abrupt shift to more radical and conservative lifestyles, as countries were struggling to find a solution to the Great Depression, also known in Europe as the World Depression. ... In the Whyte notation for the wheel arrangement of locomotives (primarily steam locomotives), an 0-8-0 is a locomotive with eight powered driving wheels (thus four powered axles), and neither leading wheels or trailing wheels. ... A loaded train ferry approaching the dock in Detroit, Michigan, April 1943. ...

Other independent British manufacturers failed to survive the depression and Hunslet with considerable foresight acquired the patterns, rights and designs of other builders notably Kerr Stuart and the Avonside Engine Co.. Kerr Stuart Tatoo-type locomotive. ... The Avonside Engine Company was a locomotive manufacturer in Avon Street, St. ...

The internal combustion engine and the war effort

John Alcock, who, following in his father's footsteps, became Managing Director of Hunslet in 1958, recalled his father telling him circa 1920, when he was still a schoolboy, that his main endeavour for the company would be in the application of the internal combustion engine to railway locomotion. Throughout the 1930's Hunslet worked on the perfecting of the diesel locomotive. This article does not cite any references or sources. ... A modern Diesel locomotive. ...

During the second world war, the company again served the country well in the manufacture of munitions. But they also built engines, both steam and diesel for the war effort and this continued with renewed vigour after the war. Important in post-war production was the Hunslet flame-proof diesel engine for use in the coal mines.

The "Jack Lane, Hunslet, Leeds" works was closed in 1995, the last order being a batch of narrow gauge diesel locomotives for tunnelling on the Jubilee Line Extension of the London Underground. Year 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full 1995 Gregorian calendar). ... Canary Wharf tube station The Jubilee Line Extension is the extension of the London Underground Jubilee Line into southern and eastern London. ... The London Underground is a transit system that serves much of Greater London and some neighbouring areas. ...

Continuity

The Hunslet Engine Company, now part of the LH Group of Companies, continues to trade from an address in Leeds and also claims ownership of "the intellectual property and design rights to the following British locomotive names, including the ability to service, repair and supply genuine replacement components: Andrew Barclay, Avonside Engine Company, North British Locomotive Company, Greenwood and Batley, Hudswell Clarke, John Fowler & Co., Kerr Stuart, Kitson & Co. and Manning Wardle." Steel Company of Wales No. ... The Avonside Engine Company was a locomotive manufacturer in Bristol, England. ... The North British Locomotive Company (NBL) was created in 1903 through the merger of three Glasgow companies; Sharp Stewart, Neilson Reid and Dübs and Company creating the largest locomotive building company in Europe. ... Greenwood and Batley was a company engaged in the manufacture of battery electric locomotives ranging from 16 gauge to standard gauge. ... A typical Hudswell Clarke Diesel Locomotive from the 1950s Hudswell Clarke was an engineering and locomotive building company in Leeds, founded in 1860. ... A John Fowler & Co. ... Kerr Stuart Tatoo-type locomotive. ... Kitson and Company was a locomotive manufacturer from Leeds. ... Manning Wardle was a steam locomotive manufacturer based in Leeds, England. ...

Hunslet-Barclay Ltd, a subsidiary of Jenbacher Holdings (UK) plc, chiefly undertakes maintenance and refurbishment of diesel multiple unit passenger trains at the Andrew Barclay Caledonia Works in Kilmarnock. Kilmarnock (Cill Mheàrnaig in Scottish Gaelic, and Killie locally) is a large burgh in East Ayrshire, Scotland, with a population of 44,170 [1]. It is roughly between Glasgow and Ayr. ...

Graham Lee, in business with an engineering works situated at Statfold Barn Farm near Tamworth in Staffordshire, has in 2005 and 2006 constructed two new Quarry Hunslet locomotives (named Statfold and Jack Lane) similar in appearance to Irish Mail pictured above. In January 2007 Jack Lane was offered for sale by the manufacturers for £152,750 (Railway Magazine, February 2007). The third of a series of four locomotives is currently under construction. For details of notes and coins, see British coinage and British banknotes. ...

Gallery

Much rebuilt Hunslet Blanche running on the Ffestiniog Railway Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (1300x932, 635 KB) Summary Ffestiniog Railway. ... The Ffestiniog Railway (in Welsh Rheilffordd Ffestiniog) is a narrow-gauge heritage railway, located in North West Wales. ...	Jerry M (Hunslet No. 638) at work in the Dinorwic slate quarry, 1951 Image File history File links No higher resolution available. ...	Hunslet build several hundred 0-6-0STs for the War Department and National Coal Board By David Wainwright. ... Preserved Austerity 0-6-0 The Hunslet Engine Company Class 50550 is a design of steam locomotive designed for shunting. ...	A typical Hunslet diesel mechanical shunter from the 1950s Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (4048x3040, 5236 KB) Hunslet 0-6-0 Diesel Mechanical shunter (No. ... This does not cite any references or sources. ...
A typical Hunslet diesel hydraulic shunter from the 1960s Image File history File links Download high resolution version (2248x1658, 576 KB) Summary Hunslet Engine Co 0-4-0DH 6688 of 1968 at the Rutland Railway. ... The 1960s decade refers to the years from January 1, 1960 to December 31, 1969, inclusive. ...	The last steam locomotive built by Hunslet in 1971 ImageMetadata File history File links Download high resolution version (1150x984, 641 KB) Summary Amerton Railway. ... Year 1971 (MCMLXXI) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display full calendar) of the 1971 Gregorian calendar. ...	Four special Hunslet diesels work on the Snowdon Mountain Railway The train that climbs Mount Snowdon. ... Half way up the Mountain. ...

Narrow gauge classes

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Notes

1. Two articulated Hunslet Engine 0-4-4-0 locomotives were supplied to the Royal Arsenal: Albert in 1934 (scrapped in 1961) and Carnegie in 1954. Carnegie was later sold, subsequently rescued and moved to the Bicton Woodland Railway in 1966 (Clarke and Veitch, 1986). She is now at the Waltham Abbey Royal Gunpowder Mills. Articulated may refer to: Articulated locomotives, or; Articulated buses articulated lorry, see semi-trailers and road trains. ... The Royal Arsenal, originally known as the Woolwich Arsenal, carried out armaments manufacture, ammunition proofing and explosives research. ... The Bicton Woodland Railway is a narrow gauge railway running in gardens in the grounds of Bicton House near Budleigh Salterton in Devon. ... Image:NapoleonicBattle. ...

References

• Clarke, B.R. and Veitch, C.C (1986). The Eighteen Inch Gauge Royal Arsenal Railway at Wooolwich. Privately published by B.R. Clarke. ISBN 0-948951-00-1. 
• Neale, A. (1995). Hunslet Narrow Gauge Locomotives. Plateway Press. ISBN 1-87198-028-3. 
• Railway Magazine (2007). Second new Hunslet just £152,750!, IPC Media, February, No. 1270, Vol.153, p. 57
• Rolt, L.T.C. (1964). A Hunslet Hundred: one hundred years of locomotive building by the Hunslet Engine Company. David and Charles. 
• Townsley, D. H. (1998). The Hunslet Engine Works. Plateway Press. ISBN 1-87198-038-0. 

Preservation

Hunslet Engine Co locomotives can been seen operating on railways across Britain including:

• Appleby Frodingham Railway (Corus Diesels can usually be seen from the train)
• Bala Lake Railway (Steam)
• Corris Railway (Diesel)
• Festiniog Railway (Steam and Diesel)
• Kent and East Sussex Railway (Steam)
• Launceston Steam Railway (Steam)
• Llanberis Lake Railway (Steam)
• Llangollen Railway(Steam)
• Middleton Railway Leeds
• Peak Rail (Steam and Diesel)
• Rutland Railway Museum (Steam and Diesel)
• Snowdon Mountain Railway (Diesel Rack Locomotives)
• Welsh Highland Railway (Porthmadog) (Steam and Diesel)
• Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway (Steam and Diesel)
• West Lancashire Light Railway (Steam)

The Appleby Frodingham Railway preservation society based at Scunthorpe in North Lincolnshire. ... For other uses, see Corus. ... The Bala Lake Railway operates at Bala Lake, Gwynedd for a distance of 4. ... Maespoeth Junction locomotive shed in the early 1980s, members of the Corris Railway Society at work restoring the line The Corris Railway (Welsh: Rheilffordd Corris) is a narrow gauge 23 (686mm) preserved railway line along the Dulas Valley on the border between Merionethshire (now Gwynedd) and Montgomeryshire (now Powys... The Ffestiniog Railway (Welsh Rheilffordd Ffestiniog) is a narrow-gauge heritage railway, located in Snowdonia in north west Wales. ... The Norwegian climbing into Tenterden Town Station The Kent & East Sussex Railway was opened by Colonel H.F. Stephens, the railway engineer, in 1900. ... The Launceston Steam Railway in Cornwall operates for 2 miles, on a 2ft (600mm) gauge. ... The loco “Dolbadarn” pulls into the Llanberis station which was opened in June 2003. ... Llangollen railway station alongside the River Dee The Llangollen Railway (Welsh: Rheilffordd Llangollen) is a preserved railway in Denbighshire, Wales, which runs from Llangollen to Carrog. ... The Middleton Steam Railway is the worlds oldest working railway. ... In 1968 the former Midland Railway main line from London to Manchester (originally built as the Manchester, Buxton, Matlock and Midlands Junction Railway), was closed between Matlock and Buxton in Derbyshire. ... Steam Hauled passenger train Demonstration of a Goods Train The Rutland Railway Museum occupies an area of nearly 7 acres (28,000 m²) on part of the former Midland Railway mineral branch line in Rutland. ... Half way up the Mountain. ... The route of the WHR. The Welsh Highland Railway (WHR) is a narrow gauge railway in Wales, which originally ran from Dinas near Caernarfon to Porthmadog, with a branch line to Bryngwyn and the slate quarries at Moel Tryfan. ... 823 The Countess and 822 The Earl - the two original W&LLR engines. ... // The West Lancashire Light Railway operates at Hesketh Bank, situated between Preston and Southport. ...

External links

• website of the current owner of 'The Hunslet Engine Company' company name