Bristol and Exeter Railway locomotives

8ft 10in Pearson 4-2-4T no. 2002 (previously no. 40) at Exeter in 1876

The Bristol and Exeter Railway locomotives worked trains on the Bristol and Exeter Railway from 1 May 1849 until the railway was amalgamated with the Great Western Railway on 1 January 1876.

The Great Western Railway had leased the Bristol and Exeter Railway from its opening and provided the locomotives up until 1849.

The Bristol and Exeter Railway in turn provided the broad gauge locomotive power on most of the railways with which it had junctions:

Engineering

The railway established workshops at Bristol Temple Meads railway station in September 1854, the site later being known as Bath Road. Engine sheds were provided at major stations and on some branches including at Taunton railway station and Exeter St Davids railway station.

The engineer was Charles Hutton Gregory until May 1850, when James Pearson was appointed as Locomotive Engineer. He designed several classes of tank engines, including large 4-2-4T locomotives.

Locomotive types

Broad gauge

1849 4-2-2 locomotives – 20 passenger locomotives
1849 0-6-0 locomotives – 12 goods locomotives
1849 Fairfield – a steam railmotor
1851 2-2-2T locomotives – 7 small tank locomotives
1854 4-2-4T locomotives – 8 locomotives with 9 feet wheels
1855 4-4-0ST locomotives – 26 saddle tank locomotives
1856 0-6-0 locomotives – 6 goods locomotives
1859 4-2-4T replacements – 2 locomotives with 7 feet 6-inch wheels
1866 0-6-0ST locomotives – 2 small tank locomotives
1868 4-2-4T renewals – 4 locomotives with 8 feet 10-inch wheels
1870 2-4-0 locomotives – 10 passenger locomotives
1872 0-4-0T locomotives – 2 small well tank locomotives
1872 0-6-0 locomotives – 14 Swindon Class goods locomotives purchased from the Great Western Railway
1874 2-4-0 locomotives – 3 convertible passenger locomotives
1874 no. 110 – a small tank engine, originally built for the South Wales Mineral Railway
1874 0-6-0T no. 111

Standard gauge

The Bristol and Exeter Railway operated 28 standard gauge locomotives. Five of these spent a short while working as broad gauge locomotives.

Narrow gauge

The Bristol and Exeter Railway owned two locomotives – numbers 112 and 113 – for working the 3 feet gauge lines in its ballast quarry at Westerliegh, Devon.

Locomotives in numerical order

1849 Broad gauge 4-2-2

1875 Standard gauge locomotive

1849 Broad gauge 4-2-2

1872 Broad gauge 2-4-0

1849 Broad gauge 4-2-2

1874 Standard gauge locomotive

1849 Broad gauge 4-2-2

1871 Broad gauge 2-4-0

1849 Broad gauge 4-2-2

1871 Broad gauge 2-4-0

1849 Broad gauge 4-2-2

1870 Broad gauge 2-4-0

1849 Broad gauge 4-2-2

1872 Broad gauge 2-4-0

1849 Broad gauge 4-2-2

1874 Convertible 2-4-0

1849 Broad gauge 4-2-2

1862 Broad gauge 7 feet 6-inch 4-2-4T

1849 Broad gauge 4-2-2

1870 Broad gauge 2-4-0

1849 Broad gauge 4-2-2

1875 Standard gauge locomotive

1849 Broad gauge 4-2-2

1874 Convertible 2-4-0

1849 Broad gauge 0-6-0

1849 Fairfield

1859 Broad gauge 7 feet 6-inch 4-2-4T

1851 Broad gauge 2-2-2T

1876 Standard gauge locomotive

1851 Broad gauge 2-2-2T

1876 Standard gauge locomotive

1851 Broad gauge 2-2-2T

1875 Convertible 2-4-0

1853 Broad gauge 0-6-0

1853 Broad gauge 9 feet 4-2-4T

1868 Broad gauge 8 feet 10-inch 4-2-4T

1853 Broad gauge 9 feet 4-2-4T

1873 Broad gauge 8 feet 10-inch 4-2-4T

1853 Broad gauge 9 feet 4-2-4T

1868 Broad gauge 8 feet 10-inch 4-2-4T

1854 Broad gauge 9 feet 4-2-4T

1868 Broad gauge 8 feet 10-inch 4-2-4T

1854 Broad gauge 9 feet 4-2-4T

1871 Broad gauge 2-4-0

1854 Broad gauge 9 feet 4-2-4T

1870 Broad gauge 2-4-0

1854 Broad gauge 9 feet 4-2-4T

1870 Broad gauge 2-4-0

1854 Broad gauge 9 feet 4-2-4T

1870 Broad gauge 2-4-0

1855 Broad gauge 4-4-0ST

1856 Broad gauge 0-6-0

1859 Broad gauge 2-2-2T

1860 Broad gauge 0-6-0

1862 Broad gauge 4-4-0ST

1867 Broad gauge 4-4-0ST

1866 Broad gauge 0-6-0ST

1867 Convertible 0-6-0 locomotive

1868 Standard gauge 2-4-0 locomotive

1873 Broad gauge 4-4-0ST

1872 Broad gauge 0-4-0T

1874 Broad gauge 0-4-0T

Standard gauge locomotive

1872 ex-GWR Swindon Class broad gauge 0-6-0 Shrewsbury

1872 ex-GWR Swindon Class broad gauge 0-6-0 Hereford

1873 ex-GWR Swindon Class broad gauge 0-6-0 Chester

1873 ex-GWR Swindon Class broad gauge 0-6-0 Windsor

1873 ex-GWR Swindon Class broad gauge 0-6-0 London

1873 ex-GWR Swindon Class broad gauge 0-6-0 Bristol

1873 ex-GWR Swindon Class broad gauge 0-6-0 Gloucester

1873 ex-GWR Swindon Class broad gauge 0-6-0 Birmingham

1874 ex-GWR Swindon Class broad gauge 0-6-0 Wolverhampton

1874 ex-GWR Swindon Class broad gauge 0-6-0 Bath

1874 ex-GWR Swindon Class broad gauge 0-6-0 Newport

1874 ex-GWR Swindon Class broad gauge 0-6-0 Reading

1874 ex-GWR Swindon Class broad gauge 0-6-0 Oxford

1874 ex-GWR Swindon Class broad gauge 0-6-0 Swindon

1874 ex-South Wales Mineral Railway broad gauge tank locomotive

1874 Broad gauge 0-6-0T

1874 3 feet gauge locomotive for Westerleigh Quarry

1874 Standard gauge 0-6-0T locomotive for the Culm Valley Light Railway

1875 Standard gauge 0-6-0T locomotive for the Culm Valley Light Railway

1875 Standard gauge 0-6-0 locomotive

References

The Locomotives of the Great Western Railway, Part 2: Broad Gauge. The Railway Correspondence and Travel Society. ISBN 0-901115-32-0.
MacDermot, E T (1931). History of the Great Western Railway, Volume 2. London: Great Western Railway.
Messenger, Michael (1993). The Culm Valley Light Railway. Truro: Twelveheads Press. ISBN 0-906294-29-0.
Waters, Laurence (1999). The Great Western Broad Gauge. Hersham: Ian Allan Publishing. ISBN 0-7110-2634-3.

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