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Snowdon Ranger (Original)
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(The above picture provided from the records held on the Vulcan Foundry website)
The original Snowdon Ranger was a 14 ton single Fairlie 0-6-4T built in 1875 by the Vulcan Foundry in Lancashire (Builder's number 739 of 1875) for the North Wales Narrow Gauge Railways. Together with its mate, Moel Tryfan, it was the first British 0-6-4T.
It went to Davies & Metcalfe of Romiley, near Stockport, for a new boiler and rebuild in 1902.
In 1917, the 'frames' (presumably the driving bogie) of Snowdon Ranger were placed under the superstructure of Moel Tryfan. Conventionally, this could indicate that the locomotive assumed the identity of Snowdon Ranger (Builder's number 739), but with Fairlie locomotives, such an assumption cannot readily be made.
What remained of Snowdon Ranger was then scrapped.
