- Alan Keef
Alan Keef Ltd is a British narrow gauge engineer; manufacturing, overhauling, and dealing in narrow gauge locos, rolling stock and associated equipment.
The
Limited Company was formed in 1975 at Cote, Bampton, Oxon, continuing what Alan Keef had already been doing for some years as an individual. In 1986 the company moved to larger premises at Lea Line,Ross-on-Wye in Herefordshire.The first new loco was built in 1976. To date (2008) over eighty locos have been built; steam, diesel and electric. Most have been narrow gauge except for two
standard gauge steam locos forBeamish Museum - the replicas of "Steam Elephant " and "Puffing Billy", and in 2008 Alan Keef Ltd built the frames, running gear and mechanical parts for two Parry People Mover railcars for use on the Stourbridge Town branch (139001 and 139002).In 1987 the company took over the production of
Motor Rail locomotives.The company have also built replica engines for Beamish museum and helped restore a number of historically significant engines including a Baldwin Class 10-12-D locomotives, one of only two that have been preserved in the UK, No. 778, that now works at Leighton Buzzard Narrow Gauge Railway
New Steam Locomotives
References
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* [http://www.alankeef.co.uk/ Official site]
*A tale of Many Railways - An autobiography and history of Alan Keef Ltd, Lightmoor Press 2008, ISBN 9781899889303
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