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The nine Vale of Neath Railway 4-4-0ST locomotives were
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steam locomotives. The first entered service in 1851 and the last was withdrawn in 1872. The
Vale of Neath Railway The Vale of Neath Railway (VoNR) was a broad gauge railway company, that built a line from Merthyr Tydfil and Aberdare to Neath, in Wales, chiefly to transport the products of the Merthyr iron industries to ports on Swansea Bay. The railway focus ...
was
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into the
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on 1 February 1865, but the locomotives retained their old numbers.


5 ft 6 in locomotives

* 1 (1851 – 1872) * 2 (1851 – 1872) * 3 (1851 – 1872) * 4 (1851 – 1872) * 5 (1851 – 1872) * 6 (1851 – 1872) The only locomotives on the Vale of Neath Railway in 1851 were these six
bogie A bogie ( ) (in some senses called a truck in North American English) is a chassis or framework that carries a wheelset, attached to a vehicle—a modular subassembly of wheels and axles. Bogies take various forms in various modes of transp ...
tank locomotives. Built by
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, they were smaller-wheeled versions of
Daniel Gooch Sir Daniel Gooch, 1st Baronet (24 August 1816 – 15 October 1889) was an English railway locomotive and transatlantic cable engineer. He was the first Locomotive Superintendent, Superintendent of Locomotive Engines on the Great Western Rai ...
's South Devon Railway Comet class locomotives that were built at the same time by various companies. They were all withdrawn shortly after the Welsh gauge conversion in 1872.


5 ft 0 in locomotives

* 7 (1854 – c.1858) * 8 (1854 – c.1858) * 9 (1854 – c.1858) Three additional bogie tanks were added to the fleet in 1854. With smaller wheels and larger cylinders they were more powerful than the earlier locomotives, but in about 1858 they were converted to 0-6-0STs.


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