Vulcan Foundry was a British locomotive builder at Newton-le-Willows, between Liverpool and Manchester in what is now Merseyside. It opened in 1832 as Charles Tayleur and Company (some accounts say 1830), first making girders and ironwork for the new Liverpool and Manchester Railway and then building locomotives beside the line instead of bringing them from Tyneside. Robert Stephenson was a partner for a few years. The firm became the Vulcan Foundry Company in 1847 and gained limited liability in 1864. Its steam locomotives went to railways around the world, with India a steady customer from 1852, and it supplied the first locomotives to run in Japan in 1870. Large orders came from the London, Midland and Scottish Railway and, in wartime, for Austerity 2-8-0 engines. After joining the English Electric group in 1957 it built diesel and electric locomotives for British Rail, including the Deltic. Locomotive building ended around 1970 and the works closed at the end of 2002.
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The Vulcan Foundry Limited was an English locomotive builder sited at Newton-le-Willows, Lancashire (now Merseyside).
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1. Grace's Guide to British Industrial History: Vulcan Foundry (Grace's Guide)
Grace's Guide to British Industrial HistoryHistory, 1832
1832 The foundry was opened as Charles Tayleur and Co to produce girders for bridges, switches and crossings, and other ironwork
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At the end of 2002 the works closed.
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The Vulcan Foundry Limited was an English locomotive builder sited at Newton-le-Willows, Lancashire (now Merseyside).
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The Vulcan Foundry Limited was an English locomotive builder sited at Newton-le-Willows, Lancashire (now Merseyside).
Part Of: English Electric, Diesel and electric locomotives, 1957 purchase
In 1957, the purchase was finalised and the business became part of the English Electric group.
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are a type of 4-8-4 "Northern" type steam locomotives, built in the United Kingdom by the Vulcan Foundry for the railways of China.
NZR RM class (Vulcan) (Wikipedia)
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this class derived their nomenclature from the name of the manufacturer, the Vulcan Foundry of Britain.
Victorian Railways J class (1954) (Wikipedia)
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A total of fifty J class locomotives were initially ordered from the Vulcan Foundry in Lancashire, England.
Liberation Class (Wikipedia)
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120 were built by the Vulcan Foundry of Newton-le-Willows in 1946.
WD Austerity 2-8-0 (Wikipedia)
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the Vulcan Foundry (VF) of Newton-le-Willows, Lancashire, built 390
Indian locomotive class WCG-1 (Wikipedia)
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the remaining 31 were built by Vulcan Foundry in Newton-le-Willows
Indian locomotive class YD (Wikipedia)
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In early 1927, Vulcan Foundry built ten 2-8-2 goods locomotives to the Assam Bengal Railway.
NZR J class (1874) (Wikipedia)
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with a dozen more from Vulcan Foundry in 1883
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