Port Talbot Railway 0-8-2T (Cooke)

Port Talbolt Railway 0-8-2T (Cooke)
Power type	Steam
Builder	Cooke Locomotive and Machine Works, USA
Build date	1899
Total produced	2
Configuration	0-8-2T
Gauge	4 ft 8 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm)
Driver diameter	4 ft 4 in (1.321 m)
Locomotive weight	75 long tons (76 t)
Fuel type	Coal
Water capacity	2,000 imp gal (9,100 l; 2,400 US gal)
Boiler pressure	180 psi (1,200 kPa)
Cylinders	Two, outside
Cylinder size	19 × 24 in (480 × 610 mm)
Valve gear	Stephenson
Tractive effort	25,490 lbf (113.4 kN)
Career	Port Talbot Railway and Docks Company » Great Western Railway
Withdrawn	1928–1929

The Cooke 0-8-2T were two 0-8-2T steam tank locomotives built in 1899 for the Port Talbot Railway (PTR), south Wales. Their PTR numbers were 20 and 21 and they became Great Western Railway (GWR) nos. 1378 and 1379 in 1922.

The PTR obtained tenders from six British and three American companies and the winning tender was from the Cooke Locomotive and Machine Works of Paterson, New Jersey, USA. Cooke's London agents were Thomas W. Ford & Company of Palace Chambers, 9 Bridge Street, Westminster.

The locomotives had bar frames (as was usual American practice) but, otherwise, they were of quite "British" appearance. Both were fitted with new taper boilers at the GWR's Swindon Works in 1908.

Performance

The locomotives were required to haul a train of 300 tons up a bank of 1 in 40 at 12 mph and 800 tons up a bank of 1 in 75 at 12 mph. Initially, the locomotives failed to meet these targets but, after some modifications, the required performances were achieved.

On coal trains, one 0-8-2T replaced a pair of 0-6-2Ts and this resulted in a significant saving in fuel and labour costs. Coal consumption was 65 lb per mile for a 0-8-2T compared with 94 lb per mile for a pair of 0-6-2Ts.

Further locomotives

The PTR had an option to buy three or five more locomotives from Cooke to the same design but it chose not to exercise this option. Instead, it bought three 0-8-2T from Sharp Stewart of Glasgow in 1901.

The two classes are easy to distinguish in photographs because, on the Cooke locomotives, the cylinders were dead horizontal and drove on the second axle, while on the Sharp Stewart locomotives they were slightly inclined and drove on the third axle.

See also

• Locomotives of the Great Western Railway
• Port Talbot Railway 0-8-2T (Sharp Stewart)
• Port Talbot Railway 0-6-2T (Stephenson)

References

• Railway Archive (Lydney, Gloucestershire: Lightmoor Press) (no. 4): 71–87. July 2003. ISSN 1477-5336. 
• Casserley, H.C.; Johnston, S.W. (1966). Locomotives at the Grouping 4: Great Western Railway. Shepperton, Middlesex: Ian Allan Limited. p. 109. 

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