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[edit] AVAILABILITY

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[edit] STEAM LOCOMOTIVES

[edit] Steam locomotives built for the Festiniog Railway

• England Engines
  • Princess - originally The Princess - on display in Spooner's
  • Prince - originally The Prince
  • Mountaineer (original) - dismantled 1879
  • Palmerston
  • Welsh Pony - (in store)
  • Little Giant - dismantled 1932

• Double Fairlies
  • Little Wonder - dismantled 1882
  • James Spooner - dismantled 1933
  • Merddin Emrys
  • Livingston Thompson - also previously known as Taliesin (second) then Earl Of Merioneth (first)- now at the National Railway Museum in York as Livingston Thompson
  • Earl of Merioneth (second)
  • David Lloyd George
• Taliesin (first) - single Fairlie built 1876 - dismantled 1932
• Taliesin (second) - see Livingston Thompson
• Taliesin (third) - single Fairlie replica built 1999
• Lyd - Lynton & Barnstaple replica, construction to be completed August 2010
• Topsy - the first locomotive built at Boston Lodge - a live steam model!
• Locomotive Tenders

[edit] Steam locomotives acquired from elsewhere

• Moel Tryfan - no longer exists
• Volunteer - known as "The Peckett" - sold
• Linda - ex Penrhyn Quarry Railway
• Blanche - ex Penrhyn Quarry Railway
• Mountaineer (second) - a First World War Alco
• Britomart - quarry Hunslet owned by a private syndicate
• K1 - the first Beyer-Garratt, restored for use on the Welsh Highland Railway(C)
• Lilla ex Penrhyn Quarry Railway
• Monarch - sold
• Leary - new vertical boiler locomotive built and owned by FR volunteers

[edit] INTERNAL COMBUSTION AND BATTERY LOCOMOTIVES

[edit] "Old Company" (pre 1946) internal combustion locomotives

• Mary Ann otherwise known as The Simplex
• Moelwyn - a First World War Baldwin
• Kerr Stuart 4415 - awaiting restoration after repatriation from Mauritius
• Austro-Daimler - no longer exists
• Muir Hill - no longer exists

[edit] Diesel passenger locomotives acquired post-1954

• Upnor Castle - now based on the Welsh Highland Railway(C)
• Conway Castle - now based on the Welsh Highland Railway(C)
• Criccieth Castle
• Castell Caernarfon - now based on the Welsh Highland Railway(C)
• Vale of Ffestiniog - bogie diesel from South Africa

[edit] Permanent Way Department and Boston Lodge Works diesel locomotives acquired post-1954

• Tyke - sold
• Moel Hebog
• Ashover
• Harold
• Harlech Castle
• Moel-y-Gest

[edit] Small diesel and battery locomotives acquired post-1954 - used on the Deviation and on sundry other duties.

It should be noted that such was the interchangability of parts - including those that carry names - of the small Simplex locomotives, identities are particularly fluid.

• Alistair - sold
• Andrew - sold
• BEV The Grogan - sold
• Jane - later named Sandra (second)
• Monster
• Sandra (first) - later named Cora and now dismantled
• Sludge - sold
• The Colonel
• The Lady Diana - reconstructed as Putty

[edit] LINE CARS AND SELF PROPELLED EQUIPMENT

• Busta
• Wickham
• Stefcomatic
• Matisa A05 tamper
• Plasser and Theurer KMX95 CM tamper
• Parry People Mover - railcar on demonstration using flywheel power

[edit] Shunting Engines

A short article appears here regarding shunting in old Company Days.

[edit] See also

• Visiting Locos
• Locomotive Tenders
• Locomotives General Index