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.
British Rail Class 25
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The British Rail Class 25, also known as the Sulzer Type 2, is a class of 327 diesel locomotives built between 1961 and 1967 for British Rail. They were numbered in two series, D5151–D5299 and D7500–D
Beyer, Peacock and Company
…1961–63 British Rail Class 35 1962 British Rail Class 25 1964 British Rail Class 17 (as sub-contractor to Clayton Equipment Company…
Class 25/3 in BR blue at Manchester Victoria in 1980.
25037 of the 25/1 subclass outside Wolverhampton in 1984
D7585 working as Derby station pilot in May 1965. The livery is BR green with small yellow warning panels.
25304 of the 25/3 subclass at Manchester Victoria in 1982.