Avonside Engine Company
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The Avonside Engine Company was a locomotive manufacturer in Avon Street, St Philip's, Bristol, England. The business originated in 1837 under the name of Henry Stothert and Company, and was reorganis
E class locomotive no. 14, one of six built for the South Australian Railways between 1862 and 1882
Fairlie locomotive James Spooner built for the Ffestiniog Railway in 1872
0-4-0ST locomotive no.1340 at Didcot
Builder's plate of Avonside Engineering Co locomotive 1386 of 1897
Fairlie locomotive
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A Fairlie locomotive is a type of articulated steam locomotive that has the driving wheels on bogies. It was invented by Robert Francis Fairlie. The locomotive may be double-ended or single ended. Mos
Avonside Engine Company
…many companies in Britain and overseas. Detailed company records from this period have not survived. The company was the largest British builder of the Fairlie articulated locomotive. Among the first to be built at Bristol was James Spooner, in 1872, for the Ffestiniog Railway. Made to the same basic design…
David Lloyd George of the Ffestiniog Railway. Built in 1992.
Double Fairlie Merddyn Emrys at Porthmadog
Fairlie locomotive with two separate boilers built for Burma Railways by the Vulcan Foundry
David Lloyd George built in 1992 for the Ffestiniog Railway.