WANTAGE TRAMWAY

Gauge 4ft 8.5in

This table differs slightly from the standard format. 
Column F indicates the date the locomotive was built 
and Column FW indicates the date it came to Wantage.

A	B        C    D     E    F     FW    G    H

-	2-2-0T   ?   (i)    -    1872  1875 (a)  (1)
-	2-2-0T?  ?   (ii)   -    1876  1876 new  (2)   
4	0-4-0T   IC  HLT    -    1877  1877 new  (3)
5	0-4-0WT  OC  GE     -    1857  1878 (b)  (4)
6	2-2-0T   OC  (iii)  -    1881  1881 new  (5)	
7	0-4-0ST  OC  MW     1057 1888  1893 (c)  (6)
Wye	0-4-0T   OC  FJ      153 1876  1906 (d)  s/s
Raven	0-4-0ST  OC  AE     1052 1874  1910 (e)  (7) 
Driver	0-4-0T   OC  MW     -    1875  1919 (f)  (8)

Notes

Numbering of early locomotives is uncertain.  Was there
a number 3?

In July 1880, two Mekarski compressed-air trams were tried 
out for 3 months.  The results were disappointing and the 
tramway reverted to steam operation.

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(i) Steam tram car designed by John Grantham.
    Bodywork by Oldbury Carriage & Wagon Works, Birmingham.
    Engine and twin vertical boilers by Merryweather & Co, London.
    Later rebuilt with a single vertical boiler by Shand, Mason. 

(ii) Steam tram engine built by Merryweather & Co, London

(iii) Steam tram engine designed by James Matthews and built
      by F. W. Jackson, Dalston, London. 

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(a) Worked experimentally in London, 1873; moved to
    Wantage Tramway 1875

(b) Built for Sandy & Potton Railway, Bedfordshire, 1857;
    S & P taken over by London & North Western Railway 1862;
    Locomotive sold by LNWR to Wantage Tramway 1878.

(c) To Wantage Tramway 1893, ex Manchester Ship Canal Co.

(d) Built for Severn & Wye Railway 1876.  Taken over by
    GWR 1894.  Hired to Wantage Tramway 1906-1910.

(e) Built to 7 foot gauge for South Devon Railway 1874.
    Taken over by Great Western Railway.  Converted to
    standard gauge 1892.  Sold to Wantage Tramway 1910.

(f) To Wantage Tramway 1919, ex Woolwich Arsenal.

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(1) Withdrawn 1890, sold 1891; may have been used on the
    Portsdown & Horndean Tramway from 1903
    
(2) Returned to makers 1877

(3) Withdrawn 1919, scrapped 1920

(4) Preserved at Didcot, Oxon.

(5) Withdrawn 1925, scrapped 1931

(6) Sold 1946, scrapped 1956

(7) Scrapped 1919

(8) Scrapped 1920 owing to cracked cylinder

s/s Sold or scrapped, disposal unknown

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