Barry Railway Class F

The Barry Railway Class F were 0-6-0ST steam saddle tank engines of the Barry Railway in South Wales, designed by J. H. Hosgood and built by a number of British companies. Their purpose was heavy shunting at Barry Docks, in effect a saddle tank version of the Class A that had done that work before. Twenty-eight were made, the second largest class on the railway, outnumbered only by the B1 Class. They had a reversing lever, much quicker for changing direction than the usual screw reverser, were all shedded at Barry, and occasionally worked goods and coal on the main line. The infobox lists Sharp, Stewart, Vulcan Foundry, the North British Locomotive Company and Hudswell Clarke as builders. They passed to the Great Western Railway in 1922 and were withdrawn between 1926 and 1936.