Barry Railway Class H

The Barry Railway Class H was a small class of seven 0-8-2T tank locomotives built for the Barry Railway by Sharp Stewart in 1896, and the first locomotives in Britain to use the 0-8-2 wheel arrangement. The class grew out of the four earlier Class D 0-8-0 tender engines that the railway had bought from the same builder. When the Barry Railway needed more locomotives for coal trains on the Vale of Glamorgan Line it returned to Sharp Stewart for a tank version with an additional rear pony truck, which gave a larger coal and water capacity than the small Class D tender while keeping the short overall length. The seven were numbered 79 to 85 and spent most of their time hauling heavy coal trains between Barry Docks and the large yard at Cadoxton. After the grouping of 1922 the Great Western Railway renumbered them 1380 to 1386.