Tralee and Dingle No. 4
Type and origin
Power typeSteam
BuilderHunslet
Build date1890
Total produced1
Specifications
Configuration:
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 • Whyte0-4-2T
Gauge3 ft (914 mm)
Career
Withdrawn1907
[1]

Tralee and Dingle Light Railway 4 was a 0-4-2T was a 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge locomotive built by Hunslet Engine Company in 1890.[1] It operated the Tralee and Dingle Light Railway's 6 mi (9.7 km) Castle-Gregory branch in County Kerry, Ireland, until withdrawn in 1907.[1]

The locomotive had cabs at both ends and the controls were duplicated so there was no need to turn the locomotive round at each end of the route.[2]

The Fry Collection includes a model of the locomotive.[1] The picture of the Fry model shows a locomotive to apparently have a raised covered cab at both ends linked by the boiler with side tanks with the chimney extending though the somewhat longer cab at the front end.[lower-alpha 1]

Following withdrawal the number 4 was taken in 1908 by 2-6-0T No. 8 built in 1903, the number 8 then being taken a locomotive built in 1910.[3]

Notes and references

Notes

  1. ↑ The presence or absence on controls in the forward cab is not obvious. The GER Class C53 an example of another steam locomotive with twin cabs.

References

Sources

  • Jenkinson, David (August 1991). "The Fry Model Railway". Modellers' Back Track. Vol. 1, no. 3. Atlantic Transport Publishers.
  • Clements, Jeremy; McMahon, Michael (2008). "Appendix K: GSR Locomotives in miniature". Locomotives of the GSR. Colourpoint Books. ISBN 9781906578268.
  • Casserley, H.C. (1974). Outine of Irish Railway History. Newton Abbot: David & Charles. ISBN 0715363778.
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