Barry Railway Class B

Barry Railway Class B were 0-6-2T steam tank locomotives designed and built by Sharp Stewart for the Barry Railway in South Wales. They were virtually identical to the Class A that preceded them, with the addition of a trailing truck. The first three, numbers 6, 7 and 8, were introduced in December 1888 and the rest of the first batch, numbers 9 to 20, were delivered between January and May 1889. A second batch, numbers 23 to 32, followed between December 1889 and February 1890 with a Type 2 boiler, and these were at first called Class B1. Their main task was hauling mineral trains to Cadoxton from Hafod Sidings in the Rhondda and from Treforest Junction, Coity Junction near Bridgend and Peterstone Junction. They passed to the Great Western Railway in 1922, only four reached British Railways ownership in 1948, and none was preserved.