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Irish Narrow Gauge - Locomotives - Kitson & Co.

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Kitson & Co. Ltd.

• works: Airedale Foundry, Hunslet, Leeds
• 1835: established by James Kitson and Charles Todd, as Airedale Foundry
• 1838: David Laird joins
• 1838: named changed to Todd, Kitson and Laird
• 1838: Charles Todd leaves
• 1838: name changed to Kitson and Laird
• 1847: name changed to Kitson, Thompson & Hewitson, (partners: Isaac Thompson, William Hewitson).
• 1863: name changed to Kitson & Co.
• 1934: went into receivership
• 1938: last loco built
• ????: drawings bought by Robert Stephenson & Hawthorn
• 1960: drawings bought by Hunslet
• documents:
  • Armley Mills Industrial Museum
  • National Railway Museum Library and Archives
• article by D. Kinnear Clark

Kitson: No.235 0-4-2WT

• specs:
  • weight: 18½Tons
  • cylinders: 11"x15"
  • driving wheels: 42"
  • working pressure: 150psi
• 1888: CMR 4 "Blarney"
• 1911: scrapped
• photos: [INGV1: b-5-p32- ]
  [CMLRJ: b-5-p6-?1890 b-5-p64- ]

Kitson: No.4665 4-4-2T

• specs:
  • weight: 39½Tons
  • cylinders: 14½"x22"
  • driving wheels: 43"
  • bogie wheels: 30"
  • trailing wheels: 30"
  • wheelbase: 5'0" + 4'5" + 6'0" + 6'0"
  • working pressure: 165psi
• [BREMP p139] lists this as No.4565
• 1908 BR 3(second)
• builders photo: [BREMP b-6-p81- ]
• ????: under NCC renumbered 113
• 1946.07: scrapped
• photos: [INGV2 b-6-p32- ]
  [BREMP b-6-p40-1911 ]
• drawings: BREMP e-5-p134- ]

Kitson: No.4666 4-4-2T

• specs:
  • weight: 39½Tons
  • cylinders: 14½"x22"
  • driving wheels: 43"
  • bogie wheels: 30"
  • trailing wheels: 30"
  • wheelbase: 5'0" + 4'5" + 6'0" + 6'0"
  • working pressure: 165psi
• [BREMP p139] lists this as No.4566
• 1908: BR 4
• ????: under NCC renumbered 114
• 1942.02: scrapped
• photos: [INGV2 b-7-p32- ]
  [BREMP b-6-p81-1911 b-6-p96-1911 ]
• drawings: BREMP e-5-p134- ]

Kitson: No.Tdlt1 0-4-0Tram

• specs:
  • cylinders: 8"x12"
  • driving wheels: 2'4¼"
• 1883: D&LT 1
• 1900: regauged to 3'6"

Kitson: No.Tdlt2 0-4-0Tram

• specs:
  • cylinders: 8"x12"
  • driving wheels: 2'4¼"
• 1883: D&LT 2
• 1900: regauged to 3'6"

Kitson: No.Tdlt3 0-4-0Tram

• specs:
  • cylinders: 8"x12"
  • driving wheels: 2'4¼"
• 1883: D&LT 3
• 1900: withdrawn

Kitson: No.Tdlt4 0-4-0Tram

• specs:
  • cylinders: 8"x12"
  • driving wheels: 2'4¼"
• 1884: D&LT 4
• 1900: regauged to 3'6"

Kitson: No.Tdlt5 0-4-0Tram

• specs:
  • cylinders: 8"x12"
  • driving wheels: 2'4¼"
• 1884: D&LT 5
• 1900: withdrawn

Kitson: No.Tdlt6 0-4-0Tram

• specs:
  • cylinders: 10"x12"
  • driving wheels: 2'4¼"
• 1887: D&LT 6
• 1900: withdrawn
• photo: [ITJKY b-6-p48-1895 ]

Kitson: No.T56 0-4-0Tram

• specs:
  • weight: 9Tons
  • cylinders: 8"x12"
  • driving wheels: 28½"
  • working pressure: 160psi
  • heating surface: 116 sq ft
  • wheelbase: 5'
  • valvegear: Walschaerts
• 1882: PT 1
• 1926: To York Rd Works
• 1939: to Hull Museum of Transport
• photos: [INGV2 b-6-p49-1920.05.05 b-7-p59-1920.05.05 b-7-p59-1920.05.05 ]
  [ITJKY b-6-p53-1920.05.05 b-6-p53-]

Kitson: No.T84 0-4-0Tram

• specs:
  • weight: 9Tons
  • cylinders: 8"x12"
  • driving wheels: 28½"
  • working pressure: 160psi
• 1883: PT 2
• 1926: To York Rd Works
• ????: to Cookstown
• 1949: on display at Ballymoney Station
• 1954: preserved: Ulster Folk and Transport Museum
• photos: [INGV2 b-5-p49-1993 ]
  [ITJKY b-6-p53- ]

Kitson: No.T106 0-4-0WT

• specs:
  • weight: 14.1Tons
  • cylinders: 12"x15"
  • driving wheels: 33"
  • working pressure: 160psi
  • tanks (2, well); total capacity: 318gall
  • tractive effort: 8860lb@85%
• 1884: C&VBT 1 "Mourne"
• ?1893: remodelled: roof & sides removed
• ?1904: scrapped
• photos: [CVBTP ?b-6-p45- ]

Kitson: No.T107 0-4-0WT

• specs:
  • weight: 14.1Tons
  • cylinders: 12"x15"
  • driving wheels: 33"
  • working pressure: 160psi
  • tanks (2, well); total capacity: 318gall
  • tractive effort: 8860lb@85%
• 1884: C&VBT 2 "Derg"
• ?1893: remodelled: roof & sides removed
• ?1912: scrapped
• photos: [CVBTP ?b-6-p45- ]

Kitson: No.T257 0-4-0WT

• specs:
  • weight: 18Tons
  • cylinders: 12"x15"
  • driving wheels: 33"
  • working pressure: 140psi (reduced from 160psi)
  • tanks (3, well); total capacity: 455gall
  • tractive effort: 7753lb@85% (reduced from 8860)
  • heating area: 33.5+235.8=269.3 sq ft
  • tubes: 96 x 1¾"
  • grate area: 7.3 sq ft
  • bunker capacity: 22 cu ft
  • valve gear: Walschaert
• 1891: C&VBT 3
• 1928.05: withdrawn
• 1928.12: scrapped
• photos: [INGV2 b-6-p115-1924.05 ]
  [CVBTP: b-6-p20- b-6-p45- b-6-p46-1924.05.24 b-6-p47- ]
  [ITJKY b-7-p57- ]
• drawings: [CVBTP: e-6-p79- ]

Kitson: No.T302 0-4-0Tram

• specs:
  • weight: 9Tons
  • cylinders: 8"x12"
  • driving wheels: 28½"
  • working pressure: 160psi
• 1901: PT 3
• 1926: Sold to Warke(Contractor) of Castlerock used for stationary work
• 1935: scrapped
• photo: [ITJKY b-6-p53-1920 ]
• Dr H. A. Whitcombe, Journal of the Institution of Locomotive Engineers, Vol.XXVII, no. 137, May-June 1937, p341:

  In 1925 the Author made a special pilgrimage to Portstewart for no other purpose than to see this engine and her two veteran sisters of 1882 and 1883. He found them all in perfect order, literally as good as new, and had the pleasure of driving No. 3 several times. What astonished him most about them was their silent and smooth running (in spite of the appalling condition of the track), for since he had last seen steam trams he had forgotten these virtues in the racket and jolting to which twenty years of electric trams had accustomed him. The track had become so bad that towards the end of the same year, 1925, the Northern Counties Committee of the London Midland and Scottish Railway, who owned the line, condemned it and removed it early in 1926, replacing the trams by omnibuses.

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