Early Days ⁽⁷⁾

Mr. J. Ramsbottom

1858 — DX Goods ⁽³⁾
1863 — 4ft Shunter ⁽³⁾
1870 — Special Tank ⁽²⁾

Mr. F.W. Webb

1873 — Coal Engine ⁽⁴⁾
1880 — 18in Goods ⁽⁵⁾
1881 — Special DX ⁽²⁾
1881 — Coal Tanks ⁽²⁾
1893 — ‘A’ class ⁽²⁾
1894 — Crane Tank ⁽²⁾
1896 — Dock Tank ⁽²⁾
1901 — ‘B’ class ⁽²⁾
1903 — 1400 Class ⁽²⁾

Mr. G. Whale

1904 — ‘C’ class ⁽³⁾
1904 — ‘E’ class ⁽³⁾
1906 — ‘D’ class ⁽²⁾
1906 — ‘F’ class ⁽²⁾
1906 — ‘G’ class ⁽¹⁾
1912 — ‘G1’ class ⁽⁵⁾
1906 — 19in Goods ⁽³⁾

Mr. C.J. Bowen Cooke

1911 — 1185 class ⁽²⁾

Capt. H.P.M. Beames

1923 — 380 class ⁽²⁾

Ex GCR

1919 — ‘MM’ class ⁽²⁾

No.3049 ‘Crewe Goods’ 2-4-0

Click on picture for bigger image.   LNWRS Photo Ref 9225

No.3049 is a Trevithick 2-4-0 tank, converted from No.67 Briareus, a 2-4-0 ‘Crewe goods’, posed in this marvelous study on the extremely steep 1 in 14 Hopton incline of the Cromford & High Peak Railway  high on the limestone moors of Derbyshire. The C&HP had been built to connect canals at Cromford and Whaley Bridge, and belonged to the mineral-railway age, not the conventional railways as we know today. This incline, originally an inclined plane operated by rope haulage, was the steepest gradient worked by adhesion in Britain. You can see the severe change of gradient at the foot.