Barry Railway Class B1

The Barry Railway Class B1 was a class of 0-6-2T steam tank locomotives designed by J. H. Hosgood for the Barry Railway in South Wales. They were built by Sharp, Stewart and Company, Vulcan Foundry and Société Franco-Belge, and closely followed the earlier B class, but carried a larger water tank of 1,630 imperial gallons against 1,400 so that they could take a train of empty wagons from Cadoxton Yard to Trehafod Junction without stopping to refill. Their main work was hauling loaded coal trains from Trehafod Junction and the pits on the Brecon and Merthyr down to Cadoxton Yard, returning with empties or occasionally pit props from Barry Docks. They also worked colliers' trains between Barry and Porth and excursions to Barry Island, and in 1920 two of them took Eisteddfod excursions from the Rhymney Railway to Barry. The class passed to the Great Western Railway in 1922; twenty survived into British Railways ownership in 1948 and all had been withdrawn by 1952, with none preserved.