The Tasmanian Government Railways K class is a class of 2 0-4-0+0-4-0 Garratt locomotives operated by the Tasmanian Government Railways from 1909. They were the first Garratt locomotives built.
K1 at Rhyd Ddu station in September 2013
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
Tasmanian Government Railways K class
…bridges and 30-metre-radius reverse curves. After the line closed in 1929, the boiler of K1 was sold to a sawmill, and in 1947 K1 was sold to its builder Beyer, Peacock & Company, with the boiler and boiler cradle of K2 attached and repatriated back to England. Beyer, Peacock & Company closed in 1966 with K1 sold to the Ffestiniog…
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.