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List of British railway-owned locomotive builders

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Many early locomotive works disappeared as railways merged or they became simply motive power depots. Some, like Bromsgrove, made only one or two new locomotives but, for even the largest, overhaul and repair of the existing fleet was the main activity.

See also List of locomotive builders and List of early British private locomotive manufacturers

Year Works location Railway company
1826 Shildon Stockton and Darlington Railway
1830 Edge Hill Liverpool and Manchester Railway
1831 Gateshead railway works Newcastle and Darlington Railway
1838 Wolverton London and Birmingham Railway
1839 Edge Hill Grand Junction Railway
1840 Bromsgrove Birmingham and Gloucester Railway
1840 Brighton London and Brighton Railway
1840 Derby North Midland Railway
1841 Crewe Grand Junction Railway
1842 Cowlairs Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway
1842 Longsight railway works Manchester and Birmingham Railway
1843 Nine Elms London and South Western Railway
1844 Darlington North Eastern Railway
1845 Wolverton London and North Western Railway
1845 Ashford South Eastern and Chatham Railway
1846 Swindon Great Western Railway
1846 Greenock Caledonian Railway
1846 Barrow-in-Furness Furness Railway
1847 Miles Platting Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
1848 Gorton Manchester, Sheffield and Lincolnshire Railway (to Great Central Railway)
1849 Wolverhampton Shrewsbury and Birmingham Railway
1850 Bow North London Railway
1851 Stratford Great Eastern Railway
1853 Earlestown railway works LNWR Formerly Jones and Potts
1853 Doncaster Great Northern Railway
1854 St Rollox (Glasgow) Caledonian Railway
1854 York North Eastern Railway
1856 St. Margarets North British Railway
1856 Cardiff Taff Vale Railway
1857 Kilmarnock Glasgow and South Western Railway
1857 Maryport Maryport and Carlisle Railway
1859 Bristol Great Western Railway
1862 Bury Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
1862 Highbridge Somerset and Dorset Joint Railway
1868 Stoke North Staffordshire Railway
1869 Longhedge London Chatham and Dover Railway
1869 Lochgorm (Inverness) Highland Railway
1874 Sheffield Great Central Railway
1876 Newton Heath Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
1889 Horwich Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway
1891 Eastleigh London and South Western Railway
1897 Melton Constable Midland and Great Northern Joint Railway
1899 Caerphilly Rhymney Railway
1909 Inverurie Great North of Scotland Railway

Sources

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  • Atkins, P., (1999) The Golden Age of Steam Locomotive Building, Penrhyn: Atlantic Transport Publications
  • Larkin, E.J., Larkin, J.G., (1988) The Railway Workshops of Great Britain 1823–1986, Macmillan Press