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Irish Narrow Gauge - Locomotives - Sharp, Stewart

works: Atlas Works, Springburn, Glasgow
1828: established by Thomas Sharp and Richard Roberts as Sharp Roberts & Co at the Atlas Works, Great Bridgewater Street, Manchester
1843: name changed to Sharp Bros.
1889: moved to Glasgow, name changed to Sharp Stewart
1903.02.12: merged with Neilson Reid and Dubs to become the Atlas Works of the North British Locomotive Co
Sharp, Stewart
The North British Locomotive Company
documents:

specs:
- weight: 23.8Tons
- cylinders: 13½"x18", inclined 1 in 15
- driving wheels: 36"
- working pressure: 140psi
- trailing wheels: 2'3"
- wheelbase: 4'9" + 5'7"
- valve gear: Joy's
- grate area: 10 sq ft
- heating surface: 48 + 466 sq ft
- tank capacity: 600 gallons
- bunker capacity: 1 ton (as modified)
- length of frames: 19'1"
- length overall: 23'3"
- height: 11'0"
- boiler centre line: 5'3" above rail
- boiler: 2 ring: 3'6"/3'6¾" i.d., 7'9" between tube plates
- boiler tubes: 127 of 1¾" diameter
1886: CVR 1 "Caledon"
1919: new boiler (Bagnall), new firebox
1934: scrapped
photos: [INGV2 b-6-p9-1920.05.15 ]
[CVREP b-5-p71 b-6-p17-1910 b-5-p72-1900 ]
[DCVJJ b-5-p2-1910 ?b-5-p22- ]
modelling:
- 4mm scale kit from Backwoods Miniatures

specs:
- weight: 23.8Tons
- cylinders: 13½"x18", inclined 1 in 15
- driving wheels: 36"
- working pressure: 140psi
- trailing wheels: 2'3"
- wheelbase: 4'9" + 5'7"
- valve gear: Joy's
- grate area: 10 sq ft
- heating surface: 48 + 466 sq ft
- tank capacity: 600 gallons
- bunker capacity: 1 ton (as modified)
- length of frames: 19'1"
- length overall: 23'3"
- height: 11'0"
- boiler centre line: 5'3" above rail
- boiler: 2 ring: 3'6"/3'6¾" i.d., 7'9" between tube plates
- boiler tubes: 127 of 1¾" diameter
1886: CVR 2 "Errigal"
1923: new boiler and firebox
1942: scrapped
photos: [IRHOS: b-5-p94-1929.09.18 ]
[INGV2 b-6-p13-1930 ]
[CVREP k-5-tp- b-5-p71 b-6-p108-1921 ]
[DCVJJ b-5-p12- ?b-5-p22- ]
modelling:
- 4mm scale kit from Backwoods Miniatures

specs:
- weight: 23.8Tons
- cylinders: 13½"x18", inclined 1 in 15
- driving wheels: 36"
- working pressure: 140psi
- trailing wheels: 2'3"
- wheelbase: 4'9" + 5'7"
- valve gear: Joy's
- grate area: 10 sq ft
- heating surface: 48 + 466 sq ft
- tank capacity: 600 gallons
- bunker capacity: 1 ton (as modified)
- length of frames: 19'1"
- length overall: 23'3"
- height: 11'0"
- boiler centre line: 5'3" above rail
- boiler: 2 ring: 3'6"/3'6¾" i.d., 7'9" between tube plates
- boiler tubes: 127 of 1¾" diameter
1887: CVR 3 "Blackwater"
1914: new boiler (Hudswell Clarke), firebox
1942: scrapped
photos: [INGV2 b-5-p17-1937.06.25 b-6-p18-1939.06.24 b-7-p19- ]
[CVREP k-5-tp- b-6-p17- b-6-p90-1939 ]
[ITJKY b-7-p59-1930 ]
[DCVJJ ?b-5-p22- ]
[FRFNJ b-6-p53-1920.05.14 ]
modelling:
- 4mm scale kit from Backwoods Miniatures

specs:
- weight: 23.8Tons
- cylinders: 13½"x18", inclined 1 in 15
- driving wheels: 36"
- working pressure: 140psi
- trailing wheels: 2'3"
- wheelbase: 4'9" + 5'7"
- valve gear: Joy's
- grate area: 10 sq ft
- heating surface: 48 + 466 sq ft
- tank capacity: 600 gallons
- bunker capacity: 1 ton (as modified)
- length of frames: 19'1"
- length overall: 23'3"
- height: 11'0"
- boiler centre line: 5'3" above rail
- boiler: 2 ring: 3'6"/3'6¾" i.d., 7'9" between tube plates
- boiler tubes: 127 of 1¾" diameter
1887: CVR 5 "Colebrooke"
builders photo: [FRFNJ b-6-p57-1887 ]
1919: new boiler (Bagnall), firebox
1936: scrapped
photos: [CVREP b-6-p108-1887 b-6-p108- ]
[DCVJJ b-5-p18- ?b-5-p22- ]
modelling:
- 4mm scale kit from Backwoods Miniatures

2002.07.21

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