Accurascale H4-AB14-007 Burnley Corporation Gas No.1 Andrew Barclay 1927 14in 0-4-0ST Blue OO

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Andrew Barclay, Sons & Company of Kilmarnock were one of Britain's most prolific builders of industrial shunting and narrow gauge locomotives. Their standard gauge industrial saddle tank engines are characterised by their flat-sided saddle tanks. The limited liability company was founded in 1892 following the failure of Mr Andrew Barclay's previous companies, which in turn had spawned Grant, Ritchie & Co. founded by two former Andrew Barclay engineers. This Andrew Barclay company was a great successes, building a large number of conventional and and fireless steam locomotives and producing a very Germanic looking well tank design for narrow gauge engines. The company adapted to diesel shunting locomotive construction in the late 1940s, though often possessed a distinctly steam-era appearance use of a solidly reliable engine and gearbox kept customers coming for Barclays.
>In 1972 the Andrew Barclay company was purchased by the Hunslet Engine Company of Leeds, the group trading as Hunslet-Barclay securing contracts to build some classes of second-generation diesel units for British Rail. Further mergers have seen the business formed into the Wabtec group (former Westinghouse Air Brake company) which still operates in Kilmarnock as Wabtec Rail Scotland.

Well over 100 Andrew Barclay built steam and diesel locomotives have survived in preservation, with a good number of them maintained in working condition on some of the smaller heritage railways.

Andrew Barclay 1927 was built in 1927 for the Burnley Corporation Gas Department, becoming BCGD No.1. The gas departments Oswalds Street plant was extended in that year so the locomotive was likely ordered to deal with the increased volume of coal required. 1927 worked until the end of town gas production in Burnley and is believed to have been the last steam locomotive working at a gasworks in Lancashire. Set aside as a museum exhibit today she is displayed in the museum at the East Lancashire Railway, Bury.

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