Worcester Engine Co.,  Worcester

Works established in 1865 to manufacture locomotives: seventy were built between then and 1870. Alexander Allan left the Caledonian Railway's locomotive shops at Perth and joined the firm in 1866. The first locomotive was an 0-60ST Salford. Nothing is known about the five succeeding locomotives.

Ten 0-6-0 goods were ordered by the North Stafford Railway which were built in 1866-7. An order followed for forty similar engines for the Great Eastern Railway under S.W. Johnson (417 class) with 5' 3" diameter wheels, these being delivered from 1867 to 1869.

Six 0-6-0 goods and two 2-4-2T passenger locomotives were supplied to the Bristol and Exeter Railway's standard gauge section. The 2-4-2Ts had domeless boilers, inside cylinders and frames, a large bunker and were fitted with both well and back tanks and Adams' radial axleboxes. Another interesting design was the 0-6-0T developed by R.H. Burnett. for the intended Metropolitan Railway branch line to St Johns Wood which would have been steeply graded. (Lowe). See also A. Alexander..

2021-03-25