Pettigrew loco designs of the Furness Railway

I have added a collection of photos of Pettigrew locomotives of the Furness Railway


LMS era


10139+10131 W. F. Pettigrew 4-4-0 Furness Railway class 120 built by Sharp Stewart and Co 1890.


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52510 Pettigrew Furness design Rebuilt with LYR boiler Moor Row shed 2nd August 1953



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Neil

 

A fair number of these look like pure Sharp Stewart designs as supplied to the Cambrian Railways.

 

Which ones please

Neil

 

Pictures 2/20, 3/20 and 4/20 for certain. Others may be rebuilds.

 

photos 2 + 3 are Furness railway class K1 + K2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Locomotives_of_the_Furness_Railway

photo 4 not sure

 

Pretty much exactly as supplied to the Cambrian (or it's predecessors) although it appears to have received a flush fitting, as opposed to a raised, firebox.

Kitsons were another who supplied very similar machinery to assorted railways (Taff Vale and L&Y come to mind)

 

Photo 4 is a Sharp Stewart standard 0-6-0, of which the Furness ended up with quite a large stock, some making it into LMS ownership. As shown in the picture, I believe the loco was built in 1866 and reboilered in 1898, scrapped 1925.

Photo 5 is the same class, but as rebuilt with a later boiler; that loco was I believe originally built in 1875. (Built 1875, rebuilt 1911, scrapped 1926)

The London Chatham and Dover Railway had two locos of the same type (named "Huz" and "Buz"); in fact, their locos came from a batch of six built "on spec" by Sharp Stewart during. recession as a way of keeping their workforce employed; of which two went to the LCDR; two to the Furness Railway and two to the Taff Vale. Others of the same type ended up on the LNWR, L&YR, Cambrian and maybe elsewhere as well.

Tom