George England and Co.
Fairlie Engine & Steam Carriage Co. | |
Headquarters | Hatcham, New Cross |
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Key people | George England, Robert Francis Fairlie |
Products | Steam locomotives |
George England and Co. was an early English manufacturer of steam locomotives founded by the engineer George England of Newcastle upon Tyne (1811โ1878).[1] The company operated from the Hatcham Iron Works in New Cross, Surrey, and began building locomotives in 1848.
The company supplied one of the earliest
Locomotive types
Festiniog Railway 0-4-0
The
Remarkably three of the four survive, much rebuilt, two still in full working order. The other, Princess, was for many years on display at Spooner's Bar in Porthmadog, although without its tender. It has since been restored cosmetically to a high standard, and has made appearances in London and elsewhere for publicity purposes.Two more similar
Fairlie
In 1869, England built the famous Little Wonder, Fairlies Patent articulated locomotive, also for the Ffestiniog Railway. George England's daughter, Eliza Anne, had earlier eloped with Robert Francis Fairlie, the inventor of the Fairlie locomotive. On George England's early retirement in 1869, Fairlie took over the company, in partnership with England's son George England junior, renaming it the Fairlie Engine and Steam Carriage Company, but following the death of George England Jr., in July 1870, the works were sold.[4]
Victorian Railways 'Old' V class
Victorian Railways 'Old' V class
Preservation
- Wantage Tramway, Shannon, 0-4-0WT, preserved at Didcot Railway Centre
- Ffestiniog Railway, see: Ffestiniog Railway rolling stock
Notes and references
- ^ Ransom, P. J. G. (2004), "England, George (1811/12โ1878)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford: Oxford University Press, retrieved 21 January 2009
- ^ The Industrial Locomotive Society (1967), Steam locomotives in industry, Newton Abbot: David and Charles, pp. 9โ10
- ^ "The Great Exhibition", The Morning Chronicle, no. 26429, London, England, 29 August 1851
- ^ a b Quine, Dan (2013). The George England locomotives of the Ffestiniog Railway. London: Flexiscale.