Beyer, Peacock and Company
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Beyer, Peacock and Company was an English general engineering company and railway locomotive manufacturer with a factory in Openshaw, Manchester. Charles Beyer, Richard Peacock and Henry Robertson fou
A Beyer, Peacock and Company builder's plate from 1885
Prins August, built for Sweden in 1856, preserved at Swedish Railway Museum in Gävle, Sweden. It is said to be the oldest operating steam engine in the world.
The Gorton Foundry in 1870
Beyer, Peacock's innovative condensing locomotive of 1871 – the inaugural motive power for London's underground railway. The large black pipe and another on the right-hand side took steam from the cylinders to the side tanks rather than ejecting it into the atmosphere as on conventional locomotives.
The Great Northern Railway was an Irish gauge railway company in Ireland. It was formed in 1876 by a merger of the Irish North Western Railway, Northern Railway of Ireland, and Ulster Railway. The gov
Preserved GNRI Class S no. 171 Slieve Gullion at Lisburn
The Fintona horse tram circa 1930
No.85 taking on water on the former Northern Counties Committee line at Ballymena railway station.