About Opentopia
Opentopia Directory Encyclopedia Tools

Kerr Stuart

Encyclopedia : K : KE : KER : Kerr Stuart

Kerr Stuart Wren Class 0-4-0ST.
Enlarge
Kerr Stuart Wren Class 0-4-0ST.

Kerr Stuart Tattoo Class 0-4-2ST.
Enlarge
Kerr Stuart Tattoo Class 0-4-2ST.

Kerr Stuart Works No. 4388 standard gauge Witch Class 0-4-0ST.
Enlarge
Kerr Stuart Works No. 4388 standard gauge Witch Class 0-4-0ST.

Kerr Stuart & Co Ltd was a locomotive manufacturer from Stoke-on-Trent, England. It was founded in 1881 by James Kerr as James Kerr & Co., and became Kerr, Stuart & Co from 1883 when John Stuart was taken on as a partner. The business started in Glasgow, Scotland, but during this time they were only acting as agents ordering locomotives from established manufacturers, among them Falcon, John Fowler and Hartley, Arnoux and Fanning. They bought the last-named company in 1892 and moved into the California Works in Stoke to begin building all their own locomotives. Hartley, Arnoux and Fanning had also been building railway and tramway plant. This side of their business was sold to Dick, Kerr and Co. in Preston.

Kerr Stuart were known for producing a number of standard designs with many engines being built for stock and sold 'off the shelf' to customers. The names of these locomotive types were often derived from the purchaser of the first of that type or from the name it was given.

The Kerr Stuart designs are typified by having a single trailing truck (allowing a large firebox to be placed behind the driving wheels) and/or having a saddle tank. Several designs of side tank locomotive were produced that shared a chassis and boiler with a saddle tank design and it is not unknown for a standard chassis from one design to used with a different design's standard boiler to produce a locomotive to suit a customers special requirements.

In 1929 & 1930 a number of GWR 5700 Class 0-6-0PTs were built.

Contents

Standard gauge designs

Narrow gauge designs

(the Joffre class was a French Decauville design built by KS under contract during the Great War) (the Haig class was developed from the Joffre as a result of parts being left unused at the end of the Great War) In the late 1920s a number of diesel locomotives were built of 30hp, 60hp and 90hp. They were very successful even though technology moved on quickly. Further development was stopped when Kerr Stuart's went into receivership, but the Hunslet range of diesel locomotives was based on these. At least 3 Kerr Stuart diesel locomotives have survived into preservation but none is in original condition having been given different engines.

In 1930 the firm's goodwill (Designs, spare parts, etc) was bought by the Hunslet Engine Company.

Some locomotives were built by W. G. Bagnall to Kerr Stuart designs. This is a result of the chief Kerr Stuart Draughtsman, and a number of other staff, being employed by Bagnalls. These locomotives include examples of the Haig and Matary classes.

The last steam locomotive built in Britain for industrial use, was a Hunslet built Brazil class engine in 1971. This locomotive is now running on the private Statfold Barn Railway.

The Corris Railway commissioned a new loco based on the "Tattoo" design of its original No.4 (KS4047) and this went into service in 2005as No.7.

Preservation

Location Class Name Works Number Built Arrangement Gauge Notes
Amerton Railway Tattoo Stanhope 2395 1917 0-4-2ST 2 ft ex. Penrhyn Quarry Railway
Amerton Railway Wren Lorna Doone 4205 1922 0-4-0ST 2 ft
Brecon Mountain Railway Sirdar Diana 1158 0-4-0T 2 ft ex Kerry Tramway
Buckinghamshire Railway Centre GWR 5700 0-6-0PT 4 ft 8.5 in
Buckinghamshire Railway Centre 90hp Diesel 4wDM 4 ft 8.5 in Heavily rebuilt
Cavan & Leitrim Railway Drummond 3024 1916 0-4-2T 3 ft
Corris Railway Tattoo No. 7 2005 0-4-2ST 2 ft 3 in Design based on the railway's original Tattoo (KS4047), now running on the Talyllyn Railway
Foxfield Light Railway Witch 0-4-0ST 4 ft 8.5 in
Foxfield Light Railway 90hp Diesel 6wDM 4 ft 8.5 in Re-engined
Great Whipsnade Railway Brazil Excelsior 1049 1908 0-4-2ST 2 ft 6 in ex. Bowaters Railway
Great Whipsnade Railway Barretto Superior 4034 0-6-2ST 2 ft 6 in ex Bowaters Railway
Leighton Buzzard Railway Wren Pixie 0-4-0ST 2 ft
Lynton and Barnstaple Railway Joffre Axe 2451 0-6-0ST 2 ft
Owned by Graham Morris Wren Peter Pan 0-4-0ST 2 ft
Moseley Railway Trust Joffre 3014 0-6-0T 2 ft ex. Gloddfa Ganol
Narrow Gauge Railway Museum 721 0-4-0WT 2 ft 6 in ex. Dundee Gasworks
Ocean Beach Railway Dunedin, New Zealand Haig 4185 0-6-0T
Paraparamu New Zealand Haig 4183 0-6-0T On display outside a Macdonald's restaurant
Sandstone Steam Railway Wren Little Bess 4031 1919 0-4-0ST 2 ft
Sandstone Steam Railway 4063 1924 0-4-2PT 2 ft
Sandstone Steam Railway 1344 1913 4-6-2T 2 ft
Sittingbourne & Kemsley Light Railway Brazil Leader 0-4-2ST 2 ft 6 in

Sittingbourne & Kemsley Light Railway Brazil Premier 0-4-2ST 2 ft 6 in
Sittingbourne & Kemsley Light Railway Brazil Melior 0-4-2ST 2 ft 6 in
Severn Valley Railway GWR 5700 0-6-0PT 4 ft 8.5 in
Statfold Barn Railway Brazil Trangkil No.4 3902 1971 0-4-2ST 2 ft The last industrial steam locomotive built in Britain, regauged from 2 ft 6 in gauge.
Talyllyn Railway modified Tattoo Edward Thomas 4047 1921 0-4-2ST 2 ft 3 in ex Corris Railway
Teifi Valley Railway Haig Sgt. Murphy 0-6-2ST 2 ft ex. Penrhyn Quarry Railway, Heavily rebuilt
Teifi Valley Railway Joffre 0-6-0ST 2 ft ex. Gloddfa Ganol
Vale of Rheidol Railway Wren Brockamin 0-4-0ST 2 ft
Welsh Highland Railway 60hp Diesel 4115 6wDM 2 ft One of the earliest diesel locomotives in existence
Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway modified Matary Joan 1929 0-6-2ST 2 ft 6 in Originally operated in Antigua
West Lancashire Light Railway Joffre Joffre 2405 0-6-0WTT 2 ft
unknown Joffre 3010 0-6-0T 2 ft ex. Gloddfa Ganol, now stored at the Yaxham Light Railway

External links

 

From Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia. Original article here. Support Wikipedia by contributing or donating.
All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License See Wikipedia Copyrights for details.

Search Titles
0123456789
ABCDEFGHIJ
KLMNOPQRST
UVWXYZ?

E-mail this article to:

Personal Message: