Bristol and Exeter Railway locomotives

Bristol and Exeter Railway locomotives

The Bristol and Exeter Railway locomotives worked trains on the Bristol and Exeter Railway from 1 May 1849 until the railway was amalgamated with the Great Western Railway on 1 January 1876.

The Great Western Railway had leased the Bristol and Exeter Railway from its opening and provided the locomotives up until 1849.

The Bristol and Exeter Railway in turn provided the broad gauge locomotive power on most of the railways with which it had junctions:
* Bristol and Portishead Port and Pier Railway
* Somerset Central Railway
* West Somerset Railway and Minehead Railway
* Devon and Somerset Railway
* Exeter and Crediton Railway

Engineering

The railway established workshops at Bristol Temple Meads railway station in September 1854, the site later being known as Bath Road. Engine sheds were provided at major stations and on some branches including at Taunton railway station and Exeter St Davids railway station.

The engineer was Charles Hutton Gregory until May 1850, when James Pearson was appointed as Locomotive Engineer. He designed several classes of tank engines, including large 4-2-4T locomotives.

Locomotive types

Broad gauge

* 1849 4-2-2 locomotives - 20 passenger locomotives
* 1849 0-6-0 locomotives - 12 goods locomotives
* 1849 "Fairfield" - a steam railmotor
* 1851 2-2-2T locomotives - 7 small tank locomotives
* 1854 4-2-4T locomotives - 8 locomotives with 9 feet wheels
* 1855 4-4-0ST locomotives - 26 saddle tank locomotives
* 1856 0-6-0 locomotives - 6 goods locomotives
* 1859 4-2-4T replacements - 2 locomotives with 7 feet 6 inch wheels
* 1866 0-6-0ST locomotives - 2 small tank locomotives
* 1868 4-2-4T renewals - 4 locomotives with 8 feet 10 inch wheels
* 1870 2-4-0 locomotives - 10 passenger locomotives
* 1872 0-4-0T locomotives - 2 small well tank locomotives
* 1872 0-6-0 locomotives - 14 Swindon Class goods locomotives purchased from the Great Western Railway
* 1874 2-4-0 locomotives - 3 convertible passenger locomotives
* 1874 no. 110 - a small tank engine, originally built for the South Wales Mineral Railway
* 1874 0-6-0T no. 111

tandard gauge

The Bristol and Exeter Railway operated 28 standard gauge locomotives. Five of these spent a short while working as broad gauge locomotives.

Narrow gauge

The Bristol and Exeter Railway owned two locomotives - numbers 112 and 113 - for working the 3 feet gauge lines in its ballast quarry at Westerliegh, Devon.

Locomotives in numerical order

* 1: 1849 Broad gauge 4-2-2: 1875 Standard gauge locomotive
* 2: 1849 Broad gauge 4-2-2: 1872 Broad gauge 2-4-0
* 3: 1849 Broad gauge 4-2-2: 1874 Standard gauge locomotive
* 4: 1849 Broad gauge 4-2-2: 1871 Broad gauge 2-4-0
* 5: 1849 Broad gauge 4-2-2: 1871 Broad gauge 2-4-0
* 6: 1849 Broad gauge 4-2-2: 1870 Broad gauge 2-4-0
* 7: 1849 Broad gauge 4-2-2
* 8: 1849 Broad gauge 4-2-2: 1872 Broad gauge 2-4-0
* 9: 1849 Broad gauge 4-2-2
* 10: 1849 Broad gauge 4-2-2
* 11 : 1849 Broad gauge 4-2-2: 1874 Convertible 2-4-0
* 12: 1849 Broad gauge 4-2-2: 1862 Broad gauge 7 feet 6 inch 4-2-4T
* 13: 1849 Broad gauge 4-2-2
* 14: 1849 Broad gauge 4-2-2: 1870 Broad gauge 2-4-0
* 15: 1849 Broad gauge 4-2-2
* 16: 1849 Broad gauge 4-2-2: 1875 Standard gauge locomotive
* 17: 1849 Broad gauge 4-2-2
* 18: 1849 Broad gauge 4-2-2
* 19: 1849 Broad gauge 4-2-2
* 20: 1849 Broad gauge 4-2-2: 1874 Convertible 2-4-0
* 21: 1849 Broad gauge 0-6-0
* 22: 1849 Broad gauge 0-6-0
* 23: 1849 Broad gauge 0-6-0
* 24: 1849 Broad gauge 0-6-0
* 25: 1849 Broad gauge 0-6-0
* 26: 1849 Broad gauge 0-6-0
* 27: 1849 Broad gauge 0-6-0
* 28: 1849 Broad gauge 0-6-0
* 29: 1849 "Fairfield": 1859 Broad gauge 7 feet 6 inch 4-2-4T
* 30: 1851 Broad gauge 2-2-2T: 1876 Standard gauge locomotive
* 31: 1851 Broad gauge 2-2-2T
* 32: 1851 Broad gauge 2-2-2T
* 33: 1851 Broad gauge 2-2-2T: 1876 Standard gauge locomotive
* 34: 1851 Broad gauge 2-2-2T: 1875 Convertible 2-4-0
* 35: 1853 Broad gauge 0-6-0
* 36: 1853 Broad gauge 0-6-0
* 37: 1853 Broad gauge 0-6-0
* 38: 1853 Broad gauge 0-6-0
* 39: 1853 Broad gauge 9 feet 4-2-4T: 1868 Broad gauge 8 feet 10 inch 4-2-4T
* 40: 1853 Broad gauge 9 feet 4-2-4T: 1873 Broad gauge 8 feet 10 inch 4-2-4T
* 41: 1853 Broad gauge 9 feet 4-2-4T: 1868 Broad gauge 8 feet 10 inch 4-2-4T
* 42: 1854 Broad gauge 9 feet 4-2-4T: 1868 Broad gauge 8 feet 10 inch 4-2-4T
* 43: 1854 Broad gauge 9 feet 4-2-4T: 1871 Broad gauge 2-4-0
* 44: 1854 Broad gauge 9 feet 4-2-4T: 1870 Broad gauge 2-4-0
* 45: 1854 Broad gauge 9 feet 4-2-4T: 1870 Broad gauge 2-4-0
* 46: 1854 Broad gauge 9 feet 4-2-4T: 1870 Broad gauge 2-4-0
* 47: 1855 Broad gauge 4-4-0ST
* 48: 1855 Broad gauge 4-4-0ST
* 49: 1855 Broad gauge 4-4-0ST
* 50: 1855 Broad gauge 4-4-0ST
* 51: 1855 Broad gauge 4-4-0ST
* 52: 1855 Broad gauge 4-4-0ST
* 53: 1856 Broad gauge 0-6-0
* 54: 1856 Broad gauge 0-6-0
* 55: 1856 Broad gauge 0-6-0
* 56: 1856 Broad gauge 0-6-0
* 57: 1859 Broad gauge 2-2-2T
* 58: 1859 Broad gauge 2-2-2T
* 59: 1860 Broad gauge 0-6-0
* 60: 1860 Broad gauge 0-6-0
* 61: 1862 Broad gauge 4-4-0ST
* 62: 1862 Broad gauge 4-4-0ST
* 63: 1862 Broad gauge 4-4-0ST
* 64: 1862 Broad gauge 4-4-0ST
* 65: 1867 Broad gauge 4-4-0ST
* 66: 1867 Broad gauge 4-4-0ST
* 67: 1867 Broad gauge 4-4-0ST
* 68: 1867 Broad gauge 4-4-0ST
* 69: 1867 Broad gauge 4-4-0ST
* 70: 1867 Broad gauge 4-4-0ST
* 71: 1867 Broad gauge 4-4-0ST
* 72: 1867 Broad gauge 4-4-0ST
* 73: 1867 Broad gauge 4-4-0ST
* 74: 1867 Broad gauge 4-4-0ST
* 75: 1866 Broad gauge 0-6-0ST
* 76: 1866 Broad gauge 0-6-0ST
* 77: 1867 Convertible 0-6-0 locomotive
* 78: 1867 Convertible 0-6-0 locomotive
* 79: 1867 Convertible 0-6-0 locomotive
* 80: 1867 Convertible 0-6-0 locomotive
* 81: 1867 Convertible 0-6-0 locomotive
* 82: 1867 Convertible 0-6-0 locomotive
* 83: 1868 Standard gauge 2-4-0 locomotive
* 84: 1868 Standard gauge 2-4-0 locomotive
* 85: 1873 Broad gauge 4-4-0ST
* 86: 1873 Broad gauge 4-4-0ST
* 87: 1873 Broad gauge 4-4-0ST
* 88: 1873 Broad gauge 4-4-0ST
* 89: 1873 Broad gauge 4-4-0ST
* 90: 1873 Broad gauge 4-4-0ST
* 91: 1872 Broad gauge 0-4-0T
* 92: 1874 Broad gauge 0-4-0T
* 93: Standard gauge locomotive
* 94: Standard gauge locomotive
* 95: Standard gauge locomotive
* 96: 1872 ex-GWR Swindon Class broad gauge 0-6-0 "Shrewsbury"
* 97: 1872 ex-GWR Swindon Class broad gauge 0-6-0 "Hereford"
* 98: 1873 ex-GWR Swindon Class broad gauge 0-6-0 "Chester"
* 99: 1873 ex-GWR Swindon Class broad gauge 0-6-0 "Windsor"
* 100: 1873 ex-GWR Swindon Class broad gauge 0-6-0 "London"
* 101: 1873 ex-GWR Swindon Class broad gauge 0-6-0 "Bristol"
* 102: 1873 ex-GWR Swindon Class broad gauge 0-6-0 "Gloucester"
* 103: 1873 ex-GWR Swindon Class broad gauge 0-6-0 "Birmingham"
* 104: 1874 ex-GWR Swindon Class broad gauge 0-6-0 "Wolverhampton"
* 105: 1874 ex-GWR Swindon Class broad gauge 0-6-0 "Bath"
* 106: 1874 ex-GWR Swindon Class broad gauge 0-6-0 "Newport"
* 107: 1874 ex-GWR Swindon Class broad gauge 0-6-0 "Reading"
* 108: 1874 ex-GWR Swindon Class broad gauge 0-6-0 "Oxford"
* 109: 1874 ex-GWR Swindon Class broad gauge 0-6-0 "Swindon"
* 110: 1874 ex-South Wales Mineral Railway broad gauge tank locomotive
* 111: 1874 Broad gauge 0-6-0T
* 112: 1874 3 feet gauge locomotive for Westerleigh Quarry
* 113: 1874 3 feet gauge locomotive for Westerleigh Quarry
* 114: 1874 Standard gauge 0-6-0T locomotive for the Culm Valley Light Railway
* 115: 1875 Standard gauge 0-6-0T locomotive for the Culm Valley Light Railway
* 116: 1875 Standard gauge 0-6-0 locomotive
* 117: 1875 Standard gauge 0-6-0 locomotive
* 118 : 1875 Standard gauge 0-6-0 locomotive
* 119: 1875 Standard gauge 0-6-0 locomotive
* 120: 1875 Standard gauge 0-6-0 locomotive
* 121: 1875 Standard gauge 0-6-0 locomotive
* 122: 1875 Standard gauge 0-6-0 locomotive
* 123: 1875 Standard gauge 0-6-0 locomotive
* 124: 1875 Standard gauge 0-6-0 locomotive
* 125: 1875 Standard gauge 0-6-0 locomotive

References

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*cite book | last = MacDermot | first = E T | title = History of the Great Western Railway, Volume 2 | publisher = Great Western Railway | date = 1931 | location = London
*cite book | last = Messenger | first = Michael | title = The Culm Valley Light Railway | publisher = Twelveheads Press | date = 1993 | location = Truro | id = ISBN 0-906294-29-0
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