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.

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Location	Name	Works Number	Built	Arrangement	Gauge	Notes
Amerton Railway	Isabel	1491	1897	0-4-0ST		a typical Bagnall narrow gauge loco
Battlefield Line	Lamport No.3	2670	1942	0-6-0ST		one of a batch of 6 similar locomotives supplied to the Staveley Coal and Iron Company
Battlefield Line	Linda	2648	1940	0-4-0ST		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
Bodmin and Wenford Railway	Alfred	3058	1953	0-4-0ST
Bodmin and Wenford Railway	Judy	2572	1937	0-4-0ST
Bodmin and Wenford Railway		3121	1957	0-4-0F		Rare fireless locomotive
Bodmin and Wenford Railway		2766	1944	0-6-0ST		J94 class
Bredgar & Wormshill Light Railway	Armistice	2088	1919	0-4-0ST		Birmingham, Tame & Rea District Drainage Board Railway, Minworth, England
Cholsey and Wallingford Railway	Huntley & Palmers No.1	2473	1932	0-4-0F		Fireless locomotive. May be moved to Reading in 2007
Foxfield Light Railway	Hawarden	2623	1940	0-4-0ST		built for Butterley Company's steelworks, Ripley, Derbyshire
Foxfield Light Railway	No. 2	2842	1946	0-4-0ST		built for the Kent Electric Power Company at Littlebrook Power Station, near Dartford
Foxfield Light Railway	Florence No. 2	3059	1954	0-6-0ST		built for the NCB North Staffordshire Area
Foxfield Light Railway	Lewisham	2221	1927	0-6-0ST		built for the Shropshire Beet Sugar Company at Alscott, near Wellington
Foxfield Light Railway	Leys	3027	1961	0-4-0DH		the last-but-one locomotive built by W G Bagnall
Rushden, Higham & Wellingborough Railway	Cherwell	2654	1942	0-6-0ST		built for the Byfield Ironstone Co's quarry
Rutland Railway Museum	"Cranford" No 2.			0-6-0ST		Awaiting overhaul, boiler ticket expired in 2006.
Welsh Highland Railway	Gelert	3050	1953	0-4-2T		built for the Rustenberg Platinum Mines in South Africa.
Welsh Highland Railway	Moel Tryfan	3023	195?	0-4-2T		built for the Rustenberg Platinum Mines in South Africa.
Welsh Highland Railway	Sinembe	2287	1927	4-4-0T		built for the Tongaat Sugar Estates, Natal.
Stephenson Railway Museum	Thomas Burt MP	401	1950	0-6-0		There were three, but two survive.
East Anglian Railway Museum	Jubilee	2542	1936	0-4-0		Returned to traffic in 2007 after an 18 month overhaul, painted in unlined light green

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★ Foxfield Light Railway stocklist