List of Vale of Rheidol Railway rolling stock
Builder Works number Year Built Wheel arrangement Gauge Number Notes
A Borsig 5913 1908 0-4-0 WT 1 ft 11 ⁄ 8 in ( 600 mm ) ex Sobemai N.V.Maldegem , Belgium
Société Anglo-Franco-Belge 2668 1951 2-8-2 + T 2 ft ( 610 mm ) 121 SAR NG15 Class , South Africa
De Winton 106 1877 0-4-0 VBT 1 ft 10 ⁄ 4 in ( 578 mm ) 1877 Vertical boiler locomotive ex Penrhyn Quarry Railway
Decauville 1027 1926 0-4-0 T 1 ft 11 ⁄ 2 in ( 597 mm ) 7 'Progress 5T ' type , ex Belgian Industries , Pas-De-Calais , France
Falcon 265 1897 4-4-0 + T 2 ft ( 610 mm ) 27 SAR NG6 Class Lawley F4 Type ex Beira Railway , South Africa , later at Buzi sugar refinery , Mozambique
Falcon 266 1897 4-4-0 + T 2 ft ( 610 mm ) 28 SAR NG6 Class Lawley F4 Type ex Beira Railway , South Africa , later at Buzi sugar refinery , Mozambique
Fowler 10249 1905 0-6-0 + T 1 ft 11 ⁄ 4 in ( 603 mm ) 6 Ex Colonial Sugar Refining , Lautoka Mill , Fiji
Fowler 11938 1909 0-4-2 T 1 ft 11 ⁄ 8 in ( 600 mm ) S.S.E 21 Ex Sena sugar , Mozambique
Fowler 15515 1920 0-6-2 T 1 ft 11 ⁄ 8 in ( 600 mm ) S.S.E 23 Ex Sena sugar , Mozambique
Henschel & Sohn 11854 1925 1 ft 11 ⁄ 2 in ( 597 mm ) 1917 Bogie Tender designed to run with Feldbahn locomotives
Hudswell Clarke D564 1930 4wDM 2 ft ( 610 mm ) ex Beswicks Lime works Hindlow quarries . Was once part of the Gloddfa Ganol collection
Hunslet 605 1894 0-4-0 T 1 ft 11 ⁄ 4 in ( 603 mm ) Small Quarry Class . ex Penrhyn Quarrry Railway
Kerr Stuart 3114 1918 0-4-0 T 1 ft 11 ⁄ 8 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
Kerr Stuart 4408 1928 0-6-4 T 2 ft 6 in ( 762 mm ) 695 PL Class ex Parlakimidi Light Railway , India
Maffei 4766 1916 0-8-0 + T 1 ft 11 ⁄ 2 in ( 597 mm ) DFB 968 / 31 Brigadelok . Built for Deutsche Heeresfeldbahn
North British 17111 1906 4-6-2 T 2 ft 6 in ( 762 mm ) 666 ex South Eastern Railway of India CC class Parlakimidi Light Railway , India
Orenstein & Koppel 3770 1909 0-4-4-0 2 ft 3 ⁄ 16 in ( 700 mm ) Krebet Baru Mill No.3 Mallet locomotive , formerly operated in Java
Ruston Proctor Either 50823 or 51168 1915 or 1916 4wPM 3 ft 3 ⁄ 8 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
Sabero 6 1937 0-6-0 T 1 ft 11 ⁄ 8 in ( 600 mm ) 6 ex Hulleras de sabero y Anexas S.A. , Spain
W. G. Bagnall 2228 1924 0-4-4 T 2 ft ( 610 mm ) 18BG ex Kowloon-Canton Railway / Sha Tau Kok Railway , Hong Kong . In 1928 moved to Victorias Milling Co. , Negros Occidental , The Philippines
Museum Collection -- Museum Collection Locomotives
At present none of these locomotives are available for public viewing with the exception of Wren 3114 and Quarry Hunslet Margaret . Wren 3114 seen at Rheidol Falls halt . Margaret was restored in the Vale of Rheidol workshops Ruston Proctor ZLH Paraffin Mechanical Locomotive in the workshop in Aberystwyth . Decauville Progress 5t , De Winton and Fowler locomotives at Vale of Rheidol Railway
This is a list of past and present rolling stock used on the Vale of Rheidol Railway (), a narrow gauge heritage railway, opened in 1902, that runs for between Aberystwyth and Devil's Bridge in the county of Ceredigion, Wales. The railway was later operated by the Cambrian Railways, Great Western Railway and British Rail before being 'privatised' in 1989 and run as a heritage railway operation (though arguably it had operated as a tourist railway operation since the mid-1930s, when the GWR withdrew freight services and winter passenger services, rendering the railway wholly reliant on the tourist trade). When first opened, the railway owned two steam locomotives, No 1 Edward VII and No 2 Prince of Wales, along with a third contractors locomotive No 3 Rheidol. In 1922 the Great Western Railway took over the running of the line and over the next two decades invested heavily in new locomotives and replacement rolling stock.