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Wagon Fleet

The railway has a number of wagons used for freight / engineering work. The following table lists the main types of wagon currently in use:

Image Number Type Origin Notes In Traffic?
20 4 Wheel - Side Door Yes
21 4 Wheel - Side Door Yes
22 4 Wheel - Side Door Yes
23 4 Wheel - Side Door Yes
24 4 Wheel Flat - ex Side Door Yes
25 4 Wheel Flat - ex End Door Yes
26 4 Wheel Flat - ex End Door Yes
27 4 Wheel Flat - ex End Door Yes
28 4 Wheel End Door Ex Plynlimon and Hafan Tramway Yes
29 4 Wheel End Door Ex Plynlimon and Hafan Tramway Yes
30 4 Wheel End Door Ex Plynlimon and Hafan Tramway Yes
31 Rail carrying Bolsters Yes
32 Bogie Ballast Hopper Ex South African Railways SAR Type Y Yes - On loan to Brecon Mountain Railway
33 Bogie Ballast Hopper Ex South African Railways SAR Type Y Yes
34 Bogie Flat Ex South African Railways Converted from SAR Type B Yes
35 Bogie Open Side Door Ex South African Railways SAR Type B Yes
36 Bogie Open Dropside Ex South African Railways DZ-9 SAR No 2888 Aberystwyth Yard Only
37 Bogie Open Dropside Ex South African Railways DZ-10 SAR No 2762 Aberystwyth Yard Only
38 Bogie Open Dropside Ex South African Railways. DZ Type. Used for storing locomotive coal Aberystwyth Yard Only
39 Bogie Brake Van Ex South African Railways. NG V-16 Type - SAR Number 3176 No
38089 Cattle Van Great Western Railway. Built Swindon (Lot No. 914) Currently being restored Yes

Cattle Wagon

Built Swindon (Lot No. 914) as a steel underframed, metal strapped wooden bodied cattle wagon. Converted 1937 to 2 ft 6 in (0.76 m) gauge for service on the Welshpool and Llanfair Light Railway. Sold to Ffestinog Railway in 1960, rebuilt and returned to the original gauge (but a lower loading gauge) in 1968 by the Ffestiniog Railway Society East Anglian Group for FR service as a covered van. Modified doors fitted 1983. Returned to Vale of Rheidol in 2014. It returned to traffic in 2017.

VoR Museum Collection

Builder Works number Name Year built Wheel arrangement Gauge Number Notes
A Borsig 5913 1908 0-4-0WT 1 ft 11+58 in (600 mm) Previously at Sobemai N.V.Maldegem, Belgium[1]
Borsig 6022 Sotillos 1906 0-6-2T 1 ft 11+58 in (600 mm) 7 Previously at Hulleras de Sabero, Spain
Arn Jung 1261 Graf Schwerin-Löwitz 1908 0-6-2WT 1 ft 11+34 in (603 mm) Previously at Brecon Mountain Railway
Avonside 2057 Renishaw No.4 1931 0-4-4-0+T 1 ft 11+58 in (600 mm) Heilser Locomotive. Previously at Renishaw Sugar Mills, South Africa
Couilllet 1140 Sabero 1895 0-6-0T 1 ft 11+58 in (600 mm) 1 Previously at Hulleras de Sabero, Spain
Couilllet 1209 Sahelices 1898 0-6-0T 1 ft 11+58 in (600 mm) 2 Previously at Hulleras de Sabero, Spain
De Winton 106 Kathleen 1877 0-4-0VBT 1 ft 10+34 in (578 mm) 1877 Vertical boiler locomotive. Previously at Penrhyn Quarry Railway[1]
Decauville 1027 1926 0-4-0T 1 ft 11+12 in (597 mm) 7 'Progress 5T' type. Previously at Belgian Industries, Pas-De-Calais, France.[1]
Dick Kerr 1918 4WEDE 1 ft 11+58 in (600 mm) 18 Diesel. Previously at Nemours Sand Quarry, France
Falcon 265 1897 4-4-0+T 2 ft (610 mm) 27 SAR NG6 Class "Lawley" F4 Type. Previously at Beira Railway, South Africa, later at Buzi sugar refinery, Mozambique[1]
Falcon 266 Lisboa 1897 4-4-0+T 2 ft (610 mm) 28 SAR NG6 Class "Lawley" F4 Type. Previously at Beira Railway, South Africa, later at Buzi sugar refinery, Mozambique[1]
Fowler 10249 1905 0-6-0+T 1 ft 11+34 in (603 mm) 6 Previously at Colonial Sugar Refining, Lautoka Mill, Fiji.[1]
Fowler 11938 1909 0-4-2T 1 ft 11+58 in (600 mm) S.S.E 21 Previously at Sena sugar, Mozambique.[1]
Fowler 15515 1920 0-6-2T 1 ft 11+58 in (600 mm) S.S.E 23 Previously at Sena sugar, Mozambique.[1]
Hanomag 10634 1928 2-6-2+2-6-2T 1 ft 11+58 in (600 mm) 82 South African Railways NGG13 Garratt
Henschel & Sohn 11854/25 1917 1 ft 11+12 in (597 mm) Bogie Tender designed to run with Feldbahn locomotives.[1]
Henschel 16043 1918 0-4-2T 1 ft 11+58 in (600 mm) 102 Previously at Hulleras de Sabero, Spain
Henschel 16073 1918 0-4-2T 1 ft 11+58 in (600 mm) 101 Previously at Hulleras de Sabero, Spain
Henschel 29587 1957 2-8-2+T 2 ft (610 mm) 146 South African Railways NG15
Hudswell Clarke 639 San Justo 1902 0-4-2ST 21+2132 in (550 mm) 4 Previously at Hullera Vasco-Leonesa, Spain
Hudswell Clarke 640 San Ana 1902 0-4-2ST 21+2132 in (550 mm) 5 Previously at Hullera Vasco-Leonesa, Spain
Hudswell Clarke D564 1930 4wDM 2 ft (610 mm) Previously at Beswicks Lime works Hindlow quarries. Was once part of the Gloddfa Ganol` collection.[1]
Hunslet 605 Margaret 1894 0-4-0T 1 ft 11+34 in (603 mm) Small Quarry Class. Previously at Penrhyn Quarry Railway.[1]
Kerr Stuart 3114 1918 0-4-0T 1 ft 11+58 in (600 mm) Wren Class. Former contractor's locomotive. Worked at various locations engaged in reservoir construction. Worked briefly at a quarry connected to the Ashover Light Railway.[1]
Kerr Stuart 4408 1928 0-6-4T 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) 695 PL Class. Previously at Parlakimidi Light Railway, India.[1]
Maffei 4766 1916 0-8-0+T 1 ft 11+12 in (597 mm) DFB 968 / 31 Brigadelok. Built for Deutsche Heeresfeldbahn.[1]
Manning Wardle 1382 Jubilee 1897 1897 0-4-0ST 1 ft 11+12 in (597 mm) Previouysly at Cilgwyn Slate Quarry, later at Penrhyn Slate Quarry. Previously owned by Welsh Slate and on long term display at the Narrow Gauge Railway Museum, Tywyn, the locomotive was purchased by the Vale of Rheidol in 2020. [1]
North British 17111 1906 4-6-2T 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) 666 CC Class. Previously South Eastern Railway of India, Parlakimidi Light Railway, India.[1]
Orenstein & Koppel 3770 1909 0-4-4-0 2 ft 3+916 in (700 mm) Mallet. Previously at Krebet Baru Mill No.3, Java.[1]
Ruston Proctor Either 50823 or 51168 1915 or 1916 4wPM 3 ft 3+38 in (1,000 mm) ZLH Paraffin Mechanical. Believed to be the oldest narrow gauge internal combustion loco in the British Isles. Ex-Cotton Powder Company.[1]
Sabero La Herrera 1937 0-6-0T 1 ft 11+58 in (600 mm) 6 Previously at Hulleras de Sabero, Spain.[1]
Société Anglo-Franco-Belge 2668 1951 2-8-2+T 2 ft (610 mm) 121 SAR NG15 Class, South Africa[1]
W. G. Bagnall 2029 1916 2-6-2T 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) AK16 Originally ordered for the Egyptian Delta Light Railways, but worked at the Kalighat Falta Railway, Calcutta, India until 1997.[1]
W. G. Bagnall 2192 Conqueror 1922 0-6-2T 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) 3 Previously at Bowaters Paper Railway and Great Whipsnade Railway.[1]
W. G. Bagnall 2228 1924 0-4-4T 2 ft (610 mm) 18BG Previously at Kowloon-Canton Railway / Sha Tau Kok Railway, Hong Kong. In 1928 moved to Victorias Milling Co., Negros Occidental, The Philippines.[1]
W. G. Bagnall 2457 1932 4-6-2+T 2 ft (610 mm) 38 / 765 Previously at Western Railway (India), Dabhoi Gwalior Railway, India. The railway owns a pair of these locomotives.[1]
W. G. Bagnall 2460 1932 4-6-2+T 2 ft (610 mm) 41 / 762 Previously at Western Railway (India), Dabhoi Gwalior Railway, India.[1]
W. G. Bagnall 2545 Renishaw No.5 1936 0-4-4-0T 1 ft 11+58 in (600 mm) 5 Meyer Locomotive. Previously at Renishaw Sugar Mills, South Africa
W. G. Bagnall 2895 1948 0-4-2T 2 ft (610 mm) 2 Previously at Rustenberg Platinum Mines, South Africa
  1. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x y "Vale of Rheidol Railway Museum Collection". Vale of Rheidol Railway. Retrieved 2 June 2019.