Penarth Dock, South Wales - the heritage and legacy

Volume Nine - Pre-Victorian to the present day - even more aspects - The Railway Infrastructure of Penarth Dock and Ely Tidal Harbour . . .

TVR loco number 75 was later renumbered 275 being an 0-6-0T engine built in 1899. The Kitson works was situated at the Airedale Foundry, Hunslet, Leeds, Yorkshire and they built 104 engines for the TVR in a 30 year period as the table below indicates. The company was founded in 1835 by James Kitson with his partner Charles Todd, becoming Kitson & Co. in the years 1863 - 1945. They went on the build about 5,400 locomotives over the life of the company. [139] [410]

year	number of engines built for the TVR by Kitson & Co.
1874	2
1875	6
1880	6
1881	2
1883	4
1884	12
1885	13
1886	16
1888	6
1891	19
1894	9
1899	6
1904	3
total	104

Statistics derived from 'Locomotives of the Taff Vale Railway' by M. C. V. Allchin published version 1944. [139]