1915 : New 0-6-2 Tank Engines : Taff Vale Railway. Designed by Mr. J. Cameron, Locomotive Superintendent. These engines, built by Messrs. Hawthorn Leslie & Co. Ltd., of Earth Bank's Locomotive Works, Newcastle-on-Tyne, are designed for general traffic, working passenger or mineral trains as required, or on shunting duty. They are capable of handling passenger trains at a speed of 45 miles per hour, and mineral trains of fifty or fifty-five loaded wagons at 17-20 miles per hour on a gradient of 1 in 200. Cylinders are 18½ in. by 26 in. : coupled wheels, 5 ft. 3 in. diameter : heating surface consists of 1,332.66 sq. ft., of which firebox contributes 121.53 sq. ft., and the tubes 1,212.13 sq. ft. : grate area is 18.5 sq. ft. : steam pressure, 160 lb. per sq. in. : tank capacity, 1,708 gallons : bunker capacity, 2½ tons of coal : traction force at 80 per cent. of working pressure, 18,050 lb. : adhesion weight, 56½ tons : total weight in working order 69 tons 1 cwt. : coupled wheelbase is short to permit sharp curves being traversed. The trailing wheels are fitted in radial boxes. The firebox is of Belpaire type. Diameter of boiler barrel is 4 ft. 8½ in., and 11 ft. 4¾ in. long between tube plates. A series of similar engines are being constructed by the North British Locomotive Co., Ltd., on the cancellation of an order previously given to the Hanover Engineering Works. [due to the 1914-18 war with Germany no doubt!]

The above photograph of TVR engine number 10 and text is from The Railway Magazine and was featured in an article published in the January 1915 edition. [735] [20200412]