Everything about Peckett And Sons totally explained
Peckett and Sons was a
locomotive manufacturer at the Atlas Works in
Bristol,
England.
Fox, Walker and Company
The company began trading in
1864 as
Fox, Walker and Company, building four and six-coupled
saddle tank engines for industrial use. They also built stationary engines and pioneered steam tramcars, the first being tested in Bristol in
1877.
Much of their output was exported, mostly
0-6-0, with some
0-4-0,
2-4-0 and
0-4-2. Around
1875 they produced six 1'6" gauge
2-4-2 trench engines for the
Admiralty using Henry Handyside's steep gradient apparatus. They also produced nine
0-6-0 saddle tank engines for the
Somerset and Dorset Railway.
Peckett and Sons
Between
1862 and
1900 they'd built over 400 locomotives, when they were taken over by Thomas Peckett becoming
Peckett and Sons, Atlas Engine Works, Bristol. The company acquired limited liability some years later.
The company continued producing a variety of small industrial and shunting engines at their factory located between Fishponds and Kingswood. They became specialists in the field, with very precise specifications and standardisation of parts. The largest engine was an
0-8-0 built in
1931 for the Christmas Island Phosphate Company.
During the two
World Wars, the works were especially busy, but by
1950 trade had largely dried up and, although in
1956 an attempt had been made to enter the diesel-mechanical market, the last steam engine was produced in
1958 and the company was bought by Reed Crane and Hoist Ltd., which itself went into liquidation.
Preservation
Despite hard work and poor maintenance, the engines were long-lasting. Many Peckett locomotives survive working on today's
heritage railways. The oldest surviving Fox Walker locomotive is "Karlskoga", an 0-6-0ST on the Nora Bergslags Railway in Sweden; it was working in 2003. Unrestored examples are at the
Bristol Industrial Museum, Scolton Manor, Pembrokeshire, and
Mangapps Railway Museum. A metre-gauge Fox Walker 0-4-2 locomotive was on display in a railway museum in Tucuman, Argentina in 1999, but its present state is unknown. There is still a company called Peckett and Sons Ltd of Ongar, which supplies spares.
Locations of preserved Peckett locomotives in the
United Kingdom include:
Locations of preserved Peckett locomotives in
New Zealand include:
Bay of Islands Scenic Railway Kawakawa - "Gabriel"
Heritage Park Railway Whangarei
Goldfields Railway Waihi
The Pukemiro Line Huntly
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