Hugh Phillips Engineering of

Tredegar Tredegar (pronounced , ) is a town and community situated on the banks of the Sirhowy River in the county borough of Blaenau Gwent, in the southeast of Wales. Within the historic boundaries of Monmouthshire, it became an early centre of the In ...

, Wales, were specialists in the manufacture of steam locomotive valves and controls. In 1982 they were involved with refurbishment of the Great Western Railway heavy goods steam locomotive No. 2857; reboring the cylinders and valves for the engine. In 1985-1986 they restored six of the

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2-8-2 for grain haulage. In 1989 they built three diesel

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s for Sudan, and one for Mozambique. In 1991 they built three

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4-4-0 steam locomotives and fifteen carriages for

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. In 1992 a railcar was built for Irish Railways. In 1992 the company went into receivership, but was resurrected as HPE Tredegar Ltd (company number 02715632) who continued in the same business, building railcars for Ghana and Tanzania. In 1995 they built three diesel electric rack railcars for the

Snowdon Mountain Railway The Snowdon Mountain Railway (SMR; cy, Rheilffordd yr Wyddfa) is a Narrow-gauge railway, narrow gauge Rack railway, rack and pinion mountain railway in Gwynedd, north-west Wales. It is a tourist railway that travels for from Llanberis to the ...

; the company was forced into receivership in 1996.

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