The Taff Vale Railway H class was a class of three 0-6-0T steam

tank locomotive A tank locomotive or tank engine is a steam locomotive that carries its water in one or more on-board water tanks, instead of a more traditional tender. Most tank engines also have bunkers (or fuel tanks) to hold fuel; in a tender-tank loco ...

s designed by

Tom Hurry Riches Tom Hurry Riches (1846–1911) was a British engineer who became the Locomotive Superintendent of the Taff Vale Railway in October 1873, and held the post until his death. At the time of his appointment, he was the youngest locomotive superinte ...

, built by Kitson & Co. and introduced to the

Taff Vale Railway The Taff Vale Railway (TVR) was a standard gauge railway in South Wales, built by the Taff Vale Railway Company to serve the iron and coal industries around Merthyr Tydfil and to connect them with docks in Cardiff. It was opened in stag ...

in 1884. They were primarily used on the Pwllyrhebog Colliery Incline, and had special tapered boilers for this purpose.

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193 was used by the NCB at the Tar distillation plant, Wernddu, Caerphilly; it was scrapped in January 1960. 194 was also used at Wernddu Tar plant, and was scrapped at Swindon.

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pp. K169–K171 {{GWR absorbed locos 1922 on H 0-6-0T locomotives Railway locomotives introduced in 1884 Kitson locomotives Standard gauge steam locomotives of Great Britain Scrapped locomotives Freight locomotives

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