Bagnall's Locomotive 1889

Messrs. Bagnall and Co., of Stafford's principal exhibit is light railway plant, suitable for farms and for contractors' work. They show a very well finished and neatly designed locomotive, which we illustrate. This engine has four coupled wheels, 2ft. 6in, diameter. The cylinders are 8in. diameter by 14in. stroke, and, with the tanks full and in running order, the engine weighs about ten tons. The same firm exhibit two of the combined engines and boilers of which they make considerable numbers for export. These are plain cylindrical boilers, externally fired, with the flame returning through tubes in the boiler from a smoke- box lined with firebrick. This boiler is valued abroad, because it will burn brushwood, spent cane, or almost any kind of rubbish on its large grate. The little railway with wrought iron sleepers is too well known to need description here.