Guinness Brewery

Spence narrow gauge 0-4-0T

This locomotive was used to shunt the St James Gate brewery sidings in Dublin. Built 1895, it was withdrawn from service in 1956. It is now preserved in the Narrow Gauge Museum at Tywyn station on the Tallyllyn railway. Its sister locomotive, no. 17, is preserved at the brewery. These locomotives were built to the narrow gauge, 1' 10", of the brewery system, but with an ingenious converter wagon, they could also work the broad gauge sidings of the main line.

For a detailed description of the brewery railways see the Industrial Railway Society website.

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Steam Locomotives of the Guinness Brewery

Number	Builder	Type	Built	Withdrawn
Broad Gauge
2	Hudswell Clarke	0-4-0ST	1914	1965
3	Hudswell Clarke	0-4-0ST	1915	1965 - Preserved
Narrow Gauge
1	Sharp Stewart	0-4-0T	1875	1913
2 Hops	Lewin	0-4-0WT	1877	1914
3 Malt	Lewin	0-4-0WT	1877	1927
4	Sharp Stewart	0-4-0T	1878	1925
5	Sharp Stewart	0-4-0T	1878	1925
6	Avonside Engineering	0-4-0T	1882	1936
7	Spence	0-4-0T	1887	1948
8	Spence	0-4-0T	1887	1948
9	Spence	0-4-0T	1887	1948
10	Spence	0-4-0T	1891	1949
11	Spence	0-4-0T	1891	1948
12	Spence	0-4-0T	1891	1954
13	Spence	0-4-0T	1895	1956 - Preserved
14	Spence	0-4-0T	1895	1952
15	Spence	0-4-0T	1895	1957 - Preserved
16	Spence	0-4-0T	1902	1951
17	Spence	0-4-0T	1902	1951 - Preserved
18	Spence	0-4-0T	1902	1951
19	Spence	0-4-0T	1902	1951
20	Spence	0-4-0T	1905	1956
21	Spence	0-4-0T	1905	1959
22	Spence	0-4-0T	1912	1957
23	Spence	0-4-0T	1921	1966 - Preserved
24	Spence	0-4-0T	1921	1967 - Preserved

Broad Gauge No. 3 was the first locomotive preserved by the RPSI. She is based at the society's Whitehead depot where she is used for shunting and crew training, along with short train rides within the site. She carries the nameplates Guinness removed from diesel shunter No. 4 when the latter was scrapped.