Dowlais Work's Locomotives

Merthyr Tydfil

Extract from The History Of The Dowlais Ironworks. by John A. Owen

Ivor Works - Engine Works

(Photograph Courtesy of Richard Hicks)

Dowlais Locomotive 3  'Mountaineer'.

(Photograph courtesy of the John Owen Collection)

Dowlais Locomotive 23  - Name 'No2 Tir Y Colly' at Caeharris.

(Photograph courtesy of the John Owen Collection)

Dowlais Locomotive No12 - Name 'England'

(Photograph courtesy of the John Owen Collection)

Dowlais Locomotive No. 14 - No Name.

(Photograph courtesy of the John Owen Collection)

Dowlais Locomotive No 24 - Name 'No.3. Kingfisher'

(Photograph Courtesy of Rowland Wren)

Dowlais Locomotive No. 31 - Name 'No.8 EHEDYDD'

(Drawing Courtesy of Dave Studley)

Dowlais Locomotive No. 32 - (Ex L.N.R. & G.V.R.)

Dowlais Locomotive No. 34, Name "No.11 Whaup"

Dowlais Locomotive No. 34 - 'Lord Wimbourne'

Top Photograph shows Driver Gilbert Evans extreme right.

(Photograph Courtesy of Rowland Wren)

Dowlais Locomotive No.41. - Name 'No.14 Peacock No.1' built 1878

(Photograph courtesy of the John Owen Collection)

Dowlais Locomotive No.42. - Name 'No. 15. Beyer No.2' Ex GWR, built 1899

(Photograph courtesy of the John Owen Collection)

Dowlais Locomotive No.43, - Name 'No. 16 Peacock No.2'

(Photograph courtesy of the John Owen Collection)

Dowlais Locomotive No.44 - Name 'No. 17 Bedlinog'.

(Photograph courtesy of the John Owen Collection)

Dowlais Locomotive No.53 - Name 'No. 25 Gwernllwyn'

The gentleman with an 'X' beneath his feet, is Samuel Davies.

(Photograph Courtesy of Heather Smith)

Dowlais Locomotive No.58 - Name  'No 29 Fochriw'

(Photograph courtesy of the Leo Davies Collection)

Dowlais Locomotive No.  - Name 'No.39 Hafod'

Bessemer Steel Plant Loco, 3ft Gauge

(Photograph courtesy of the John Owen Collection)

Dowlais Locomotive No. 58 - Name 'No. 30  Dowlais'

Dowlais Locomotive No.73 - Name 'No. 38 Arthur Keen'

(Photograph Courtesy of Rowland Wren)

Dowlais Locomotive 74  'No11 Gower'

(Photograph courtesy of the John Owen Collection)

Dowlais Locomotive No.76 - Name 'No. 40 King George V'

Built in 1907.

Dowlais Locomotive No.77 - Name 'No. 41 Sandyford'

(Photograph Courtesy of Rowland Wren)

Dowlais Locomotive No.79 - Name 'No. 42 Queen Mary'

Seen here in 1912 awaiting naming by Queen Mary on her visit to Dowlais Works 27th June 1912.

(Photograph courtesy of the John Owen Collection)

Dowlais Locomotive No.81 - Name 'No. 44 PANT'

Photographed at Dowlais in 1938

(Photograph courtesy of the John Owen Collection)

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