De Winton

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The De Winton steam locomotive Chaloner of the Leighton Buzzard Light Railway
The De Winton factory at Caernarfon harbor as seen from the platform of the Welsh Highland Railway station

De Winton & Co was a factory in Caernarfon , Wales from 1854-1901 . It was an important supplier to the shipbuilding industry. The delivery program of the company also included all the machines and tools for the mining and processing of slate were necessary, stationary steam engines and narrow gauge - steam engines with vertical vertical boiler for use in Welsh slate mines and other industrial enterprises.

history

The company has its origins in the 1840s in a small foundry founded by Owen Thomas at the slate port of Caernarfon. In cooperation with Jeffreys Parry de Winton , he established the Union Foundry, particularly for street lighting gas lamps . In the 25 years of its existence, the company has built ship steam engines with up to 200 bhp and their boilers as well as over 60 quarry locomotives of a similar design.

Jeffreys Parry de Winton was mayor of Caernarfon from 1870–1872 and ran the company until around 1890.

After that, it was poorly managed when the unsuccessful focus on marketing a French invention led to the company going bankrupt in 1901.

The De Winton steam engine at Glynllifon was restored by chimney builder Fred Dibnah after he had actually been called there to demolish the chimney.

De Winton locomotives

At least six locomotives are still preserved. De Winton's archives have not been preserved, so there is no complete list of all locomotives manufactured by De Winton.

Type Surname Place of use Construction year Gauge Disposition Remarks
0-4-0 VB Wellington Dinorwic Quarry 1877 578 mm (1 ft 10¾ in ) Sold to Glynrhonwy Quarry in 1898 Double cylinder drive, double flange wheels
0-4-0 VB Harriet Dinorwic Quarry 1874 578 mm Scrapped in 1895 Single cylinder drive, double flange wheels
0-4-0 VB Peris Dinorwic Quarry 1875 578 mm Sold or scrapped before 1895 Double cylinder drive, double flange wheels
0-4-0 VB Victoria Dinorwic quarry 1876 578 mm Scrapped in 1895 Single cylinder drive, double flange wheels
0-4-0 VB Padarn Dinorwic Quarry unknown 578 mm Sold to Glynrhonwy Quarry in 1898 Single cylinder drive, double flange wheels
0-4-0 VB Rhymney Pen y Bryn quarry 1875 610 mm (2 ft) scrapped Built for the Penrhyn Quarry but not delivered
0-4-0 VB Lord Penrhyn Penrhyn Quarry 1876 578 mm Scrapped in 1909
0-4-0 VB Lady Penrhyn Penrhyn Quarry 1876 578 mm Scrapped in 1911
0-4-0 VB Alice Penrhyn Quarry 1876 578 mm Scrapped in 1912
0-4-0 VB Georgina Penrhyn Quarry 1876 578 mm 1904 irreparably damaged by falling rocks
0-4-0 VB Ina Penrhyn Quarry 1876 578 mm Scrapped in 1911
0-4-0 VB Baladeulyn Pen-yr-Orsedd Quarry Tramways 610 mm Sold to Glynrhonwy Slate Quarry in 1895
0-4-0 VB Starstone Pen-yr-Orsedd Quarry Tramways 610 mm .
0-4-0 VB Inverlochy Pen-yr-Orsedd Quarry Tramways 1877 610 mm Possibly originally Pen-y-Bryn Quarry. Scrapped in 1937
0-4-0 VB Glynllifon Pen-yr-Orsedd Quarry Tramways 1880 610 mm Scrapped in 1937
0-4-0 VB Rhymney First Penybryn , then Pen-yr-Orsedd Quarry Tramways 1875 610 mm Scrapped in 1933
0-4-0 VB Chaloners First Penybryn , then Pen-yr-Orsedd Quarry Tramways 1877 610 mm Sold to a private collector in 1960. Today on the Leighton Buzzard Light Railway .
0-4-0 VB Kathleen Penrhyn Quarry 1877 578 mm Storage at the Vale of Rheidol Railway , Aberystwyth
0-4-0 VB George Henry Penrhyn Quarry 1877 578 mm Today at the Narrow Gauge Railway Museum, Tywyn
0-4-0 ST Edward Sholto Penrhyn Quarry Railway 1876 578 mm Scrapped in 1907 The only 3 known De Winton locomotives with a horizontal boiler were delivered to Penrhyn.
0-4-0 ST Hilda Penrhyn Quarry Railway 1878 578 mm Scrapped after 1911
0-4-0 ST Violet Penrhyn Quarry Railway 1879 578 mm Scrapped before 1911
0-4-0 VB Penmaen Penmaenmawr & Welsh Granite Co. Ltd. 1878 914 mm (3 ft) Shut down in 1943 Still on site in the quarry
0-4-0 VB Lillian Penmaenmawr & Welsh Granite Co. Ltd. 1891 914 mm Decommissioned in 1933, scrapped
0-4-0 VB Louisa Penmaenmawr & Welsh Granite Co. Ltd. 1892 914 mm Decommissioned in 1936, scrapped in 1951
0-4-0 VB Ada Penmaenmawr & Welsh Granite Co. Ltd. 1892 914 mm Closed in 1931, scrapped
0-4-0 VB Gelli Pen-yr-Orsedd Quarry Tramways 1893 610 mm Retired in 1945, still in the quarry in 1952, probably scrapped, frame built into the engine shed as part of the maintenance pit frame. In the meantime removed for restoration.
0-4-0 VB Puffin Penmaenmawr & Welsh Granite Co. Ltd. 1893 914 mm Shut down in 1934
0-4-0 VB Watkin Penmaenmawr & Welsh Granite Co. Ltd. 1893 914 mm Shut down in 1944
0-4-0 VB Harold Penmaenmawr & Welsh Granite Co. Ltd. 1894 914 mm Decommissioned in 1936, scrapped in 1951
0-4-0 VB Pendyffryn Penyrorsedd slate quarry 1894 597 mm (1 foot 11½ inches) Privately owned Brecon Mountain Railway , exhibited operationally in the museum engine shed in Pontsticill.
0-4-0 VB Llanfair Penmaenmawr & Welsh Granite Co. Ltd. 1895 914 mm Closed in 1940 On the Welsh Highland Railway
0-4-0 VB Arthur Pen-yr-Orsedd Quarry Tramways 1895 610 mm Scrapped in 1956
0-4-0 VB Victoria Pen-yr-Orsedd Quarry Tramways 1897 610 mm Scrapped in 1956

literature

  • Rowland AS Abbott: Vertical Boiler Locomotives ( English ). Oakwood Press, 1989, ISBN 0-85361-385-0 .

Web links

Commons : De Winton locomotives  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ De Winton and Co Engineers Caernarfon ( English ) In: de-winton.com . David Fisher. January 1, 2011. Accessed July 9, 2015.
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g h i Boyd, James IC: Narrow Gauge Railways in North Caernarvonshire, Volume 1: The West ( English ), 2nd. edition. Edition, The Oakwood Press, 1990, ISBN 0-85361-273-0 .