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Stark and Fulton was an engineering company in Glasgow, Scotland. Little is known about the company except that it built some of the first steam locomotives for the
Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway The Glasgow, Paisley, Kilmarnock and Ayr Railway (GPK&AR) was a railway in Scotland that provided train services between Glasgow, Kilmarnock and Ayr. It opened its first line, between Glasgow and Ayr, in stages from 1839 to 1840. The section b ...
and the
Midland Counties Railway The Midland Counties' Railway (MCR) was a railway company in the United Kingdom which existed between 1839 and 1844, connecting Nottingham, Leicester and Derby with Rugby, Warwickshire, Rugby and thence, via the London and Birmingham Railway, t ...
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 the 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 ver ...
"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 Caledonian and Dumbartonshire Junction Railway, which later became part of the
Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway The Edinburgh and Glasgow Railway was authorised by act of Parliament on 4 July 1838. It was opened to passenger traffic on 21 February 1842, between its Glasgow Queen Street railway station (sometimes referred to at first as Dundas Street) and ...
.


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