Alan Keef

Alan Keef Ltd is a British narrow gauge railway engineering company which manufactures, overhauls, and deals in narrow gauge locomotives, rolling stock and associated equipment.

Alan Keef's works at Lea; Locomotive "Woto" at an open day in 1999

The Limited Company was formed in 1975 at Cote, Bampton, Oxon, continuing what Alan Keef had already been doing for some years as an individual. In 1986 the company moved to larger premises at Lea, near Ross-on-Wye in Herefordshire.

The first new loco was built in 1976. To date (2008) over eighty locos have been built – steam, diesel and electric. Most have been miniature or narrow gauge except for two standard gauge steam locos for Beamish Museum – the replicas of "Steam Elephant" and "Puffing Billy". In 2008 Alan Keef Ltd built the frames, running gear and mechanical parts for two Parry People Mover railcars for use on the Stourbridge Town branch (139001 and 139002). A number of Alan Keef's locomotives are replicas of steam locomotives but with diesel power. These are referred to as steam outline (s/o) in the listing below.

In 1987 the company took over the production of Motor Rail locomotives.

In addition to the replicas for Beamish the company has also helped restore a number of historically significant engines including both UK preserved Baldwin Class 10-12-D locomotives – No. 778 – which now works at Leighton Buzzard Light Railway and more recently No 794 (referred to as No 590) [1] from the Welsh Highland Heritage Railway. However, this project was eventually paused and the WHHR moved the loco to the Vale of Rheidol's Aberystwyth workshops for completion in 2020.[2]

During the annual Open Day in September at the Alan Keef Headquarters, the public is welcome to see and ride examples of rail equipment from visiting exhibitors, as well as its own in-house rail equipment, on the facility's 3 ft (914 mm) narrow gauge and 2 ft (610 mm) narrow gauge tracks.[3]

New & Rebuilt Locomotives
Works No. Plated Year Number/
name		 Wheel
arrangement		 Gauge Class To Notes
 
1 1974 "Trixie" 0-4-0 ST OC 2 ft (610 mm) Trixie First steamed at Cote on 05/09/1974, sold to Meirion Mill Railway in January 1975. Returned to Alan Keef in 1976 and resold to Rail Rebecq in Belgium where it was renamed "Paula". Now located at the Tacot des Lacs railway, France.[4] Alan Keef Ltd did not build Trixie, though they were involved in the design. The builder was Trevor Barber, former manager of the Whipsnade and Umfolozi Railway.
2 1976 Skippy 4w DM 2 ft (610 mm) Motorised skip wagon [5]
3
4 1979 4w DM 2 ft (610 mm) Wilmslow Peat Farm Out of Use[5]
5 1979 4w DM 2 ft (610 mm) William Sinclair Horticulture Ltd, now at The Highland Light Railway.[6] Out of Use[5]


image

6 1981 4w DM 2 ft (610 mm) Private Location [5]
7 1982 BARBIE 4w DM 21 in (533 mm) Pleasure Beach Railway, Blackpool [5]
8 1982 T2 SALLY 4w DH 2 ft (610 mm) William Sinclair Horticulture Ltd Out of Use[5]


image

9 1982 4w DH 2 ft (610 mm) Leemspoor Narrow Gauge Museum, Netherlands [7]
10 1983 5 ALISON 4w DH 2 ft (610 mm) Gartell Light Railway

[5]

11 1984 IVOR 4w DH steam outline 2 ft (610 mm) Thorpe Park [5]
12 1984 SIR GEORGE 4w DH steam outline 2 ft (610 mm) Greenlea Light Railway [5]


image

13R 1984 4w DH 15 in (381 mm) Ruston & Hornsby 452280 rebuilt Evesham Vale Light Railway [5]
14 1984 4w DH steam outline 2 ft (610 mm) John Redden's Scrapyard, Wellingborough [8]
15 1984 4w DH 2 ft (610 mm) India [9]
16 1985 WEASEL 0-6-0 DH steam outline 10 1⁄4 in (260 mm) Replica of Wisbech & Upwell Tramway locomotive Wells & Walsingham Light Railway [10]


image

17 1985 3 0-4-0 DH steam outline 2 ft (610 mm) Cotswold Wildlife Park Railway [5]


image

18 1985 05 581 4w DH 2 ft (610 mm) William Sinclair Horticulture Ltd [5]
19 1985 JEFFREY 4w DH 2 ft (610 mm) William Sinclair Horticulture Ltd [5]
20R 1986 4w DM 2 ft (610 mm) Ruston & Hornsby 283513 rebuilt William Sinclair Horticulture Ltd, now at The Highland Light Railway.[6] Dismantled[5]
21 1987 05/582 4w DH 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) Chemring Energetics UK Ltd [5]
22 1987 05/583 4w DH 2 ft 6 in (762 mm) Chemring Energetics UK Ltd [5]
23 1988 3 JACK 0-4-0 DH steam outline 2 ft (610 mm) East Hayling Light Railway

[5]

24 1988 DH U-series Kyung Dong Coal Mine, Korea [11]
25 1988 DH U-series Kyung Dong Coal Mine, Korea [11]


image

26 1988 4w DM 2 ft (610 mm) 40S[11] William Sinclair Horticulture Ltd Out of use[5]
27
28 1989 T9 4w DM 2 ft (610 mm) 40S[11] William Sinclair Horticulture Ltd [5]


image

29 1988 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) 60S Nigeria [11]
30 1990 "Taffy" 0-4-0 VBT VC 2 ft (610 mm) Alan Keef

De Winton replica

31 Chassis (AKL) 1990 Body, Tender and Mechanical (RVM) 2012 Princess Swee' Pea 0-6-0 DH steam outline 10 1⁄4 in (260 mm) Hastings Miniature Railway Originally constructed by Alan Keef Ltd. Currently out of action at the Bickington Steam Railway. The current braking system was not designed and installed by Graham.
32
33
34 1991 0-4-0 DH steam outline Singapore Zoo Railway Garden ornament[12]
35
36 1990 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) 60S Nigeria [11]
37 1990 85S Chemicals & Fertilisers of Port Harcourt, Nigeria [11]
38 [13] 1991 "Trijntje" 0-4-0 T OC 600 mm (1 ft 11 5⁄8 in) De Efteling B.V. Efteling Steam Train Company
39 1992 SIR WINSTON CHURCHILL 0-6-2 DH steam outline 15 in (381 mm) Blenheim Park Railway

[5]

40 1992 4w DH 2 ft (610 mm) [14]
41 1992 0-6-2 DH steam outline 15 in (381 mm) Haigh Railway [5]


image

42 1992 0-6-2 DH steam outline 15 in (381 mm) [14]
43 Guyana Sugar Corporation [11]


image

44 1993 4w DH 3 ft (914 mm) Peatlands Park Railway

[5]

45 1993 4w DH 2 ft (610 mm) India [9]
46 1993 4w DH 2 ft (610 mm) Woodhead Tunnel [5]
47 1994 T5 SANDRA 4w DH 2 ft (610 mm) William Sinclair Horticulture Ltd [5]


image

48
49 1994 4w DH 2 ft (610 mm) John Muir Country Park Railway [5]
50 1994 4w DH 2 ft (610 mm) India [9]
51 1995 0-6-2 DH steam outline 15 in (381 mm) Cricket St Thomas Railway [5]
52 1996 PAM 0-4-0 DH 15 in (381 mm) Wotton Light Railway [5]
53
54 1998 DENSIL 0-6-0 DH steam outline 10 1⁄4 in (260 mm) Wells Harbour Railway

[15]

55 1998 4w DH 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) Walton Water Treatment Works
Scrapped December 2010		 [5]
56
57
58
59R 1999 80 BEAUDESERT 4w DH 2 ft (610 mm) Motor Rail 101T018 Leighton Buzzard Light Railway [5][11]
60 2000 Edward Milner 0-6-0 DH 12 1⁄4 in (311 mm) Buxton Miniature Railway [16]
61 2000 SIR WALTER RALEIGH 0-4-0 DM steam outline 18 in (457 mm) Bicton Woodland Railway

[5]

62 2002 4 0-2-0+1w DH Lartigue Monorail Listowel & Ballybunion Railway

[5]

63 2001 JAMES GORDON 0-4-0 DH steam outline 2 ft (610 mm) Alford Valley Railway

[5]

64 2001 POMPEY B-B DH 15 in (381 mm) Wotton Light Railway [5]


image

65 2001 MARGAM CASTLE 0-4-0 DH steam outline 2 ft (610 mm) Margam Country Park Railway [5]


image

66 2002 2 THE EARL OF OAKFIELD 0-4-0 DH 15 in (381 mm) Difflin lake Railway [5]
67 2003 4w BE 2 ft (610 mm) Llechwedd Slate Caverns [5]
68 2003 4 BELLA 0-4-0 DH steam outline 2 ft (610 mm) Cotswold Wild Life Park Railway

[5]

69R 2003 9 MARK TIMOTHY 2-6-4 T OC 15 in (381 mm) Winson 20 rebuilt Bure Valley Railway

[5]

70 2004 LADY ALEXANDRA 0-4-0 DH steam outline 20 in (508 mm) Great Woburn Railway

[5]

71 2004 "PUFFING BILLY" 4w G VC 4 ft 8 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge Replica of 1813 locomotive Beamish Museum

[5]

72R 2004 313 POLAR BEAR 4w BE 2 ft (610 mm) Wingrove & Rogers 5568001 rebuilt Groudle Glen Railway

[5]

73
74 2005 HOWARD 0-6-0 DH steam outline 10 1⁄4 in (260 mm) Wells Harbour Railway

[17]

75R 2007 2 BICTON 4w DH 18 in (457 mm) Ruston & Hornsby 213839 rebuilt Bicton Woodland Railway [5]


image

76
77 2007 LYDIA 2-6-2 T OC 15 in (381 mm) Perrygrove Railway

78R 2007 6 4w DH 3 ft (914 mm) Motor rail 102T007 rebuilt Difflin Lake Railway [5]
79 2007 7 FLYNN 0-6-0 DH 15 in (381 mm) Longleat Railway

[5]

80 2007 BORIS 0-6-0 DH 10 1⁄4 in (260 mm) Hotham Park Miniature Railway [18]


image

81
82
83 2008 ERIC 0-6-0 DH 10 1⁄4 in (260 mm) Lappa Valley Steam Railway [19]


image

84 2008 SIR PETER GADSDEN 4w BE 2 ft (610 mm) Blists Hill Victorian Town [5]
85R 2010 BUNTY 2-6-2 T + tender OC 15 in (381 mm) Construction started by Neville Smith, completed by Alan Keef Ltd. Heatherslaw Light Railway [5]
86 2010 MERLIN 0-4-0 DH 2 ft (610 mm) Wicksteed Park Railway

[5]

87
88
89
90
91 Corris No. 10 0-4-2 ST 2 ft 3 in (686 mm) Replica of Corris Railway "Falcon" locomotive Corris Railway Under construction in 2018, a replica of one of the Corris Railway's original Hughes locomotives.
92 2012 E762 LYN 2-4-2 T 600 mm (1 ft 11 5⁄8 in) "Lyn" Replica Lynton & Barnstaple Railway various components, and final assembly of 1898 replica[20]
93R 2013 "STEAMPLEX" 4w VBT Motor Rail 5877 rebuilt Groudle Glen Railway

[21]

94 2013 Winston 0-6-0 DH 15 in (381 mm) Blenheim Park Railway operating in the grounds of Blenheim Palace, in Oxfordshire, England.

[5]

95 2014 THE DUKE 0-6-0 DH 10 1⁄4 in (260 mm) Wells Harbour Railway

96R 2015 CUMBRIA 4w BE Rebuilt and regauged from Clayton B4227B/2006. South Tynedale Railway [22]
97 2016 0-6-0 DH 12 1⁄4 in (311 mm) Ree Park – Ebeltoft Safari, Denmark
98
99
100 2017 0-6-0DH(so) 12 1⁄4 in (311 mm) Wellington Country Park, Reading
101R VER 6 2 ft 8 1⁄2 in (825 mm) Extensive rebuild of the original car. Volk's Electric Railway [23]
102R VER 10
103 2018 HOWARD 0-6-0 DH Beale Park

[23]

104 2018 8 JOHN THYNN B-B DH 15 in (381 mm) Longleat Railway
60SD757 1986 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) 60S Ghana Bauxite Ordered by Ghana Bauxite from Simplex Mechanical Handling Ltd but delivered by Alan Keef Ltd.[11]
40SD530 1987 4w DM 2 ft 8 1⁄2 in (825 mm) Motor Rail 40S Volks Electric Railway[5]

Originally for Butterley Building Materials Ltd, ordered by them from Simplex Mechanical Handling Ltd but delivered by Alan Keef Ltd.[11]

M001 1988 2a-2 DH Monorail Mrs. Whites Garden Ltd, Wiltshire [5]
M002 1989 M002 IVOR 2a-2 DH Monorail Skip wagon Alan Keef Ltd Stored[5]
M003 1989 2a-2 DH Monorail Skip wagon Alan Keef Ltd Stored[5]
1977 PW 3 REDGAUNTLET 4w PM 15 in (381 mm) Romney, Hythe and Dymchurch Railway [5]
1979 "Thomas" 4w VB G 2 ft (610 mm) Telford Development Corporation

To Telford Horsehay Steam Trust c.1987

1988 4w DM 2 ft (610 mm) Motor rail 9932 rebuilt Chilmark Mine & Teffont Quarry [5]
1988 8 2 ft (610 mm) Baguley 2w-2DM Railcar Leighton Buzzard Light Railway Rebuild of railcar to unpowered carriage.[5]
1993 1 DROMAD 0-4-2 T OC 3 ft (914 mm) Kerr Stuart 3024 rebuilt Cavan & Leitrim Railway [5]
1995 2w-2 DH R 3 ft (914 mm) Drewry Cars 1495 rebuilt Cavan & Leitrim Railway [5]
1999 CHARLES 0-6-0 DH steam outline 10 1⁄4 in (260 mm) Ferry Meadows Railway [24]


image

2001 STEAM ELEPHANT 6w G 4 ft 8 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge Joint construction with Dorothea Restorations, replica of Steam Elephant. Beamish Museum

[5]

2004 COL. FREDERICK WYLIE 4w DH 2 ft (610 mm) Hunslet 9349 rebuilt Beeches Light Railway [5]


image

2004 3 ENTERPRISE 4w DH 3 ft (914 mm) Motor rail 60S382 rebuilt Waterford & Suir Valley Railway [5]
2019 Nancy 0-6-0 T 3 ft (914 mm) Avonside 1547 of 1908. Rebuilt between 1999 and 2019 Cavan and Leitrim Railway

[25]

See also
  • British narrow gauge railways

References
  1. http://test.whr.co.uk/stock/steam/baldwin-794 Archived 8 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine Baldwin 794/590 Loco description
  2. http:www.isengard.co.uk/index
  3. "Lea Bailey Light Railway - Alan Keef Open Day, 21 September 2013". Archived from the original on 23 February 2014. Retrieved 20 February 2014.
  4. Quine, Dan (November 2016). "Trixie and the Meirion Mill Railway". Narrow Gauge World.
  5. Industrial Locomotives: including preserved and minor railway locomotives. 16EL. Melton Mowbray: Industrial Railway Society. 2012. ISBN 978 1 901556 78 0.
  6. Handbook 16EL, Amendment List No.18. Industrial Railway Society. May 2015. p. 957/28.
  7. Thomason, Steve. "The Springfield Agricultural Railway - Locomotives". Retrieved 24 September 2013.
  8. "3nd - Narrow Gauge Diesel / Petrol Locomotive Record No: 9445". UKLocos.com. Archived from the original on 2 October 2013. Retrieved 29 September 2013.
  9. Darvill, Simon. "Indian / South-Asian Industrial Locos". Retrieved 25 September 2013.
  10. Best, Steve. "Record No: 11976". Preserved Railway Stocklist. Archived from the original on 3 December 2013. Retrieved 1 December 2013.
  11. Rowlands, JAS. "Simplex (narrow gauge) Locomotives - The Alan Keef Years". Archived from the original on 27 September 2013. Retrieved 23 September 2013.
  12. Stuart. "Flower Train". cymro76's photostream. Flickr. Retrieved 18 November 2013.
  13. http://www.industriespoor.nl/Hoofdstuk29.pdf ALAN KEEF, Ross-on-Wye GB Keef K38 type Bt bwj. 1991 spw. 600 mm, 1991- De Efteling Kaatsheuvel
  14. Industrial Locomotives: including preserved and minor railway locomotives. 10EL. Melton Mowbray: Industrial Railway Society. 1994. ISBN 0901096792.
  15. Best, Steve. "Record No: 11973". Preserved Railway Stock List. Archived from the original on 18 May 2015. Retrieved 17 November 2013.
  16. "Record No: 11867". Preserved Railway Stock List. uklocos.com. Archived from the original on 2 October 2013. Retrieved 29 September 2013.
  17. Best, Steve. "Record No: 11974". Preserved Railway Stock List. Archived from the original on 18 May 2015. Retrieved 17 November 2013.
  18. Best, Steve. "Record No: 11740". Preserved Railway Stocklist. Archived from the original on 3 December 2013. Retrieved 1 December 2013.
  19. "Record No: 10759". Preserved Railway Stock List. UKLocos.com. Archived from the original on 2 October 2013. Retrieved 29 September 2013.
  20. "LYNformation Bulletin No.60: Monday 11 September 2017". Retrieved 8 May 2018.
  21. New Haven Neil. "Groudle Glen News". Retrieved 25 September 2013.
  22. Handbook 17EL, Amendment List No.1. Industrial Railway Society. January 2016. p. 967/3.
  23. "Alan Keef Ltd., Ross on Wye [17EL/100]". Industrial Railway Society Bulletin. Industrial Railway Society (1013): 13. May 2018.
  24. "Record No: 11829". Preserved Railway Stock List. uklocos.com. Archived from the original on 2 October 2013. Retrieved 29 September 2013.
  25. "Industrial Notes and News". Bulletin. 1031. -Industrial Railway Society. May 2019. p. 13.
  • "Alan Keef Ltd - Locomotives Built at Cote". Industrial Railway Record. Industrial Railway Society (113). June 1988.
  • A tale of Many Railways – An autobiography and history of Alan Keef Ltd, Lightmoor Press 2008, ISBN 978-1-899889-30-3
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.