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Barry Railway Class D
🇬🇧 United Kingdom ·built by Sharp, Stewart and Company· from 1889· class of 4 two-cylinder 0-8-0 locomotives built for the Swedish & Norwegian Railway
what is it?
Barry Railway Class D were 0-8-0 steam tender engines of the Barry Railway in South Wales. They were built to a standard Sharp, Stewart and Company design modified by John Waddington Mann, the Chief Mechanical Engineer for the Swedish & Norwegian Railway. In fact, 20 of these locomotives were ordered by this railway.
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 137 years ago, in 1889.
- Weighs about as much as 8 African elephants (~6 t each).
- Served for 33 years (1897–1930).
steam locomotive: Burns coal, wood or oil to boil water; the steam drives pistons that turn the wheels.
spec sheet
- built
- 1889–1897
- in service from
- 1897
- retired
- 1930
- status
- retired
- number built
- 4
- kind
- Steam
- traction
- steam
- origin
- 🇬🇧 United Kingdom
- builders
- Sharp, Stewart and Company
- designer
- John Waddington Mann
- operators
- Barry Railway Company, Great Western Railway
- top speed
- —
- power
- —
- wheel arrangement
- 0-8-0
- weight
- 48.8 t
From the Wikipedia infobox and Wikidata. Blank means the sources don't say.
Sources: Wikidata Q4864642, Wikipedia: Barry Railway Class D (CC BY-SA 4.0).Updated 2026-10-25.