Stark and Fulton was an engineering company in

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. Little is known about the company except that it built some of the first steam locomotives for the Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway and the

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around 1840. For about four months, D B Stark was a loco superintendent of the former line.

Locomotives

Those for the GPK&AR were ''Stuart'' and ''Bute''. They were probably similar to those for the MCR and of the

2-2-0 Under Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, 2-2-0 represents the wheel arrangement of two leading wheels on one axle, two powered driving wheels on one axle, and no trailing wheels. This configuration, which became very p ...

"Bury" type. The MCR locos were ''Hawk,'' ''Vulture'' and ''Eagle, '' with 5'6" driving wheels 5'6" and cylinders 12"x18". These were supplied in 1839 and four more were supplied to the GPK&R in 1840: ''Mercury (No 1),'' ''Mazeppa (No 2),'' ''Wallace'' and ''Queen.'' In 1849, they supplied one of

2-2-2 Under the Whyte notation for the classification of steam locomotives, 2-2-2 represents the wheel arrangement of two leading wheels on one axle, two powered driving wheels on one axle, and two trailing wheels on one axle. The wheel arrangement both ...

formation for use on the

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, which later became part of the

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References

* Lowe, J.W., (1989) ''British Steam Locomotive Builders,'' Guild Publishing Locomotive manufacturers of the United Kingdom Engineering companies of Scotland Manufacturing companies based in Glasgow 1830s establishments in Scotland {{Business-stub