Barry Railway Class A

Barry Railway Class A were the first steam tank engines built for the Barry Railway in South Wales, five 0-6-0T locomotives designed by John Wolfe Barry and built by Sharp Stewart. Four of them were delivered for heavy shunting at Barry Docks, while number 5 went to Treforest Junction to haul the engineer's saloon and was fitted with a vacuum injector and train pipes. Because of this fitting it was chosen to pull the first passenger train between Barry Docks and Cogan when the line opened on 20 December 1888. When the Class C engines arrived the following year it joined the others on dock work. All five passed to the Great Western Railway in 1922 as numbers in the 699 to 706 range, were withdrawn between 1926 and 1932, and none has been preserved.