and rushed round a curve of certainly not more than radius with great velocity. Neath Abbey’s price for selling such a locomotive was above £600, as confirmed in quotation of 19 April 1864. When assets were acquired by the Main Colliery Co. Ltd. in 1889, these included four locomotives, of which two were scrapped. This company converted its narrow gauge lines to standard gauge in 1899 and advertised six locomotives for sale, of which two had been built by the Neath Abbey Ironworks, three by Pecketts and one unknown. The gauge was . There were three 0-6-0ST with Peckett works Nos. 501/1890, 542/1890 and 602/1896, one 0-6-0T, one more saddle tank locomotive and one completely unknown locomotive. Two similar 0-4-0T steam locomotives with a gauge of were supplied to the Neath Abbey Coal Company'' in 1858 by the company of R. & W. Hawthorn in Newcastle upon Tyne. These two steam locomotives had been built in 1864 and 1870 to be exported to South America, but were stored or used at Neath Abbey Iron Company’s works. They were up for sale in 1899. External links Historic Neath Abbey archives to be preserved online Historic and modern maps side by side References 800 mm gauge railways in Wales Railway lines in Wales Defunct railroads