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Taff Vale Railway H class
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by Kitson and Company· from 1884· class of 3 Welsh 0-6-0T locomotives
what is it?
The Taff Vale Railway H class was a class of three 0-6-0T steam tank locomotives designed by Tom Hurry Riches, built by Kitson & Co. and introduced to the Taff Vale Railway in 1884. They were primarily used on the Pwllyrhebog Colliery Incline, and had special tapered boilers for this purpose.
who runs it
base stats
Bars compare against all trains: 600 km/h (maglev), 1,700 seats; power, weight and number built on a log scale up to 20 MW, 1,000 t and 20,000 built.
fun facts
- First built 142 years ago, in 1884.
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1884
- retired
- 1953
- status
- retired
- number built
- 3
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- Kitson and Company
- designer
- Tom Hurry Riches
- operators
- Taff Vale Railway, Great Western Railway, British Rail, National Coal Board, Western Region of British Railways
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- wheel arrangement
- 0-6-0T
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q7674945, Wikipedia: Taff Vale Railway H class (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.