W.G. Bagnall

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W.G. Bagnall was a locomotive manufacturer from Stafford, England. It was founded in 1875 by William Gordon Bagnall and ceased trading in 1962 when it was taken over by English Electric Co Ltd. The company was located at the Castle Engine Works, in Castle Town, Stafford. The majority of their products were small four- and six-coupled steam locomotives for industrial use, and many were narrow gauge. They were noted for building steam and diesel locomotives in standard and narrow gauges.

Bagnalls introduced several novel type of locomotive valve gear including the Bagnall-Price and the Baguley. More information about these and other Bagnall's valve gear are available here. They also used marine (circular) fireboxes on narrow gauge engines, a design that was cheap but needed a different firing technique.

Some of Kerr Stuart's designs were brought to Bagnalls when they employed Kerr Stuart's chief Draughtsman. Examples of such locomotives can be seen on the Sittingbourne & Kemsley Light Railway.

Isabel is typical of the small narrow gauge engines built by Bagnall	1940-built standard gauge 0-4-0ST Hawarden	0-4-0ST Alfred, formerly Port of Par and is preserved at the Bodmin and Wenford Railway.	0-4-0ST Woto at Alan Keef Ltd., 1999
Pekoe-Tip a 2 ft (610 mm) gauge locomotive supplied to the Jokai (Assam) Tea Co Ltd, Assam, India

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Location	Name	Works Number	Built	Arrangement	Gauge	Notes
Amerton Railway	Isabel	1491	1897	0-4-0ST	2 ft (610 mm)	a typical Bagnall narrow gauge loco
Battlefield Line	Lamport No.3	2670	1942	0-6-0ST	4 ft 8½ in (1435 mm)	one of a batch of 6 similar locomotives supplied to the Staveley Coal and Iron Company
Battlefield Line	Linda	2648	1940	0-4-0ST	4 ft 8½ in (1435 mm)	the first of a batch of 9 supplied to the Ministry of Supply for use at Royal Ordnance Factories
Bodmin and Wenford Railway	No. 19	2962	1950	0-4-0ST	4 ft 8½ in (1435 mm)
Bodmin and Wenford Railway	Alfred	3058	1953	0-4-0ST	4 ft 8½ in (1435 mm)
Bodmin and Wenford Railway	Judy	2572	1937	0-4-0ST	4 ft 8½ in (1435 mm)
Bodmin and Wenford Railway		3121	1957	0-4-0F	4 ft 8½ in (1435 mm)	Rare fireless locomotive
Bodmin and Wenford Railway		2766	1944	0-6-0ST	4 ft 8½ in (1435 mm)	J94 class
Bredgar & Wormshill Light Railway	Armistice	2088	1919	0-4-0ST	2 ft (610 mm)	Birmingham, Tame & Rea District Drainage Board Railway, Minworth, England
Cholsey and Wallingford Railway	Huntley & Palmers No.1	2473	1932	0-4-0F	4 ft 8½ in (1435 mm)	Fireless locomotive. May be moved to Reading in 2007
Foxfield Light Railway	Hawarden	2623	1940	0-4-0ST	4 ft 8½ in (1435 mm)	built for Butterley Company's steelworks, Ripley, Derbyshire
Foxfield Light Railway	No. 2	2842	1946	0-4-0ST	4 ft 8½ in (1435 mm)	built for the Kent Electric Power Company at Littlebrook Power Station, near Dartford
Foxfield Light Railway	Florence No. 2	3059	1954	0-6-0ST	4 ft 8½ in (1435 mm)	built for the NCB North Staffordshire Area
Foxfield Light Railway	Lewisham	2221	1927	0-6-0ST	4 ft 8½ in (1435 mm)	built for the Shropshire Beet Sugar Company at Alscott, near Wellington
Foxfield Light Railway	Leys	3027	1961	0-4-0DH	4 ft 8½ in (1435 mm)	the last-but-one locomotive built by W G Bagnall
Rushden, Higham & Wellingborough Railway	Cherwell	2654	1942	0-6-0ST	4 ft 8½ in (1435 mm)	built for the Byfield Ironstone Co's quarry
Welsh Highland Railway	Gelert	3050	1953	0-4-2T	2 ft (610 mm)	built for the Rustenberg Platinum Mines in South Africa.
Welsh Highland Railway	Moel Tryfan	3023	195?	0-4-2T	2 ft (610 mm)	built for the Rustenberg Platinum Mines in South Africa.
Welsh Highland Railway	Sinembe	2287	1927	4-4-0T	2 ft (610 mm)	built for the Tongaat Sugar Estates, Natal.
Stephenson Railway Museum	Thomas Burt MP	401	1950	0-6-0	4 ft 8½ in (1435 mm)	There were three, but two survive.