Barry Railway Class D

Barry Railway Class D were 0-8-0 steam tender engines built to a standard Sharp, Stewart and Company design that John Waddington Mann, chief mechanical engineer of the Swedish and Norwegian Railway, had modified. That railway ordered twenty of them but ran into such financial difficulty that only one and a half locomotives were paid for. Two of the engines, numbered 25 and 26 by the Swedish and Norwegian, never left the builder and were sold to the Barry Railway in October 1889 as numbers 35 and 36. Two more were seized by bailiffs in Norway in December 1891, were returned to the builder after a legal dispute ended in May 1895, and reached the Barry Railway in March and April 1897 as numbers 92 and 93. They were the first eight-coupled locomotives in United Kingdom service, and their short overall length, owing to small four-wheeled tenders, suited the short turntables at Barry.