Preserved Steam Rollers and other Steam Engines in Thailand

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Please see also my list of preserved and extant steam locomotives and steam cranes in Thailand. I would like to acknowledge the help given in assembling this list by Derek Rayner, Chris Grimes, Peter Green, John Tomlinson, Ray Gardiner, Shane O'Neill, Peter Busby, David Welch, Michael Pass, Mark Robinson, Chris Yapp, David Bosworth and John Baker.

Latest additions:

Albaret roller at Buriram (picture added 29th May 2025)
Picture of Aveling and Porter roller at Lopburi (21st May 2025)
Wolf semi-portable at Na San (28th February 2024)
Aveling and Porter roller at Lopburi and Ruston and Hornsby roller at Nonthaburi (picture 24th February 2024)
Albaret roller at Krabi (18th December 2018, picture 9th February 2024)
Henschel roller at Hua Hin (2nd January 2019)
Clayton and Shuttleworth and Ruston Proctor portables spotted in Phuket in 1987 (!!!, 19th September 2018))
Albaret rollers at Chainat, Trang and Nakhon si Thammarat (26th July 2018)
Ruston and Hornsby roller at Trang (26th July 2018)
Albaret roller at Nakhon Sawan moved (26th July 2018)
Albaret roller at Udon Ratchathani (22nd June 2018)
Albaret roller at Saraburi (13th June 2018)
Albaret rollers at Tak and Kampaeng Phet, Ruston and Hornsby roller at Phichit (9th May 2018)
Confirmation of Aveling-Barford roller at Ma Moh Mine Museum, Lampang (21st April 2018)
Aveling-Barford roller at Phayao (8th April 2018)
Albaret rollers at Lamphun and Chiang Rai (8th April 2018)
Albaret roller at Phrae (2nd April 2018)
Albaret roller at Uttaradit (29th March 2018)
Albaret rollers at Si Samrong, Sukhothai and Lampang (21st February 2018)
Ruston and Hornsby roller at Phitsanulok (6th December 2017)
Henschel roller at Department of Highways Museum, Bangkok (22nd September 2017)
A survivor for which more information is needed (updated 18th March 2017).
Aveling Barford roller at Wiang Sa (16th March 2017)

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Steam Rollers

A number of rollers carry a painted numerical code aa (30) - bbb30 - 00cc - dd (Date = 19xx) where the initial 30 seems to indicate a (steam) roller, the next three digits the maker, the next four digits are specific to an individual roller and the last two show the date. The painters have got it wrong on occasions, of course. Please look carefully for this and try to include this code in any pictures you send me.

IMPORTANT - Albaret rollers have often been reported as '1926', this actually refers to the decree which required the boilers/fireboxes to carry an identification plate. The Thai examples were all supplied in the first half of the 1950s, often the small circular boiler disc has just "53" or similar for the year of build on it. Will future visitors please check this. Works number 1953 (of 1953) also went to the Far East (Indonesia) but is now in the UK, via Australia; as one of a trio from this period that were sold on to Australia.

		Location	Maker	Number	Year	Notes
1		Tak Highways Division 1	Albaret - Rantigny, Oise, France	1637	195?	Earliest identified Albaret in Thailand. Location N 16° 47' 55.392920" E 99° 9' 4.455699"
2		Chainat	Albaret - Rantigny, Oise, France	1639	195?	Chainat Highways District GPS Coordinates 15.189841 N, 100.129530 E
3		Bangkok Rama 1 Road -	Albaret - Rantigny, Oise, France	1954	195?	Pathumwan Institute of Technology, permission needed to enter. Formerly at the National Science Education Centre, Ekamai, Bangkok
4		Highways Office, Lampang	Albaret - Rantigny, Oise, France	1955	195?
5		Suphanburi, Highways Department	Albaret - Rantigny, Oise, France	1956	195?	At Highways Department, just north of town centre. GPS Coordinates 14.482036 N, 100.122200 E
6		Nakhon Si Thammarat, Highways Department	Albaret - Rantigny, Oise, France	1960	1953	Office of Highways 16 GPS Coordinates 8.453406 N, 99.951612 E See this blog - http://www.thaimtb.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=56&t=273645&start=30, the picture is here http://upic.me/show/19306381 Carries 30 - 0074 - 53
7		Bangkok Rama 1 Road	Albaret - Rantigny, Oise, France	1964	195?	Pathumwan Institute of Technology, permission needed to enter, see http://www.flickr.com/photos/ianfuller/map/?photo=3723655730 Carries a Kian Gwan, Bangkok agents plate.
8		Saraburi	Albaret - Rantigny, Oise, France	1966	195?	Highway Offices, Saraburi, about 3km north of the railway station on Highway 1.
9		Surat Thani	Albaret - Rantigny, Oise, France	1969	195?	Highway Offices, Phun Phin, about 1km from the railway station in the direction of the town. GPS Coordinates 9.110013 N, 99.234832 E Carries a Kian Gwan, Bangkok agents plate.
10		Trang	Albaret - Rantigny, Oise, France	1976	195?	Trang Highway District Na Tham Nuea, Trang GPS Coordinates 7.599705 N, 99.601335 E Carries a Kian Gwan, Bangkok agents plate.
11		Bangkok, Department of Highways Museum, Rama VI Road	Albaret - Rantigny, Oise, France	1981	195?
12		Mae Tha Highway Depot, Lamphun	Albaret - Rantigny, Oise, France	1982	195?	Type BM, carries a Kian Gwan, Bangkok agents plate. 21km from Lamphun on Route 11 towards Lampang on south side of the road
13		Highways Office, Uttaradit	Albaret - Rantigny, Oise, France	1983	1953	Type BM, carries a Kian Gwan, Bangkok agents plate. Carries 30 - 00430 - 0035 - 53
14		Bangna Trad / Srinakarin Junction, Bangkok.	Albaret - Rantigny, Oise, France	1985	1953	Belongs to the Highways Department GPS Coordinates 13.665008 N, 100.645085 E See ~~http://www.john-tom.com/html/SteamEnginesThailand.html~~ (Link broken by December 2023. RD) Carries 30 - 00430 - 0097 - 53
15		Highways Office 2, Phrae on Yantrahit Road, Thung Kwao on east side going north east out of Phrae.	Albaret - Rantigny, Oise, France	1986	195?	Type BM
16		Lom Sak Highways Dept	Albaret - Rantigny, Oise, France	1987	195?	Not actually in Lom Sak at all, but alongside the main road (12) a few km further East, towards Nam Nao, by the traffic lights & junction.
17		Nakhon Sawon	Albaret - Rantigny, Oise, France		1953	Formerly 2 or 3 km south of Nakhon Sawan on the east side of Route 1, in the grounds of 'council offices' most likely the Highways Department. Now 8 km south at the new highways office: GPS Coordinates 15.615131 N, 100.121404 E Carries 33 - 00043 - 53
18		Highways Office, Si Samrong, Sukhothai	Albaret - Rantigny, Oise, France		(likely 195?)	One of the later machines with a cylinder on the canopy roof.
19		Highways Office, Chiang Rai	Albaret - Rantigny, Oise, France		(likely 195?)	One of the later machines with a cylinder on the canopy roof.
20		Kamphaeng Phet Highway Department	Albaret - Rantigny, Oise, France		(likely 195?)	Location N 16° 26' 20.747478" E 99° 30' 29.523299"
21		Udon Ratchathani, Highways Department, Kasemsuk Road	Albaret - Rantigny, Oise, France		1953	Carries 30 - 00430 - 0064 - 53
22		Krabi, Office of Highways Department 17	Albaret - Rantigny, Oise, France		(likely 195?)	On the right hand side of the road to the airport at Nuea Khlong.
23		Buriram	Albaret - Rantigny, Oise, France		(likely 195?)	Seen in this YouTube video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4R4fcOG9es Khaogradong Intersection https://maps.app.goo.gl/aDkkuTPMq81fqkkPA?g_st=ac Carries a Kian Gwan, Bangkok agents plate.
31		Wiang Sa, Nan	Aveling-Barford	AH430	1950(?)	Head north from the cross roads in the centre of town and it's on the left after about 100 metres. Thought to be the newest surviving steam roller from Aveling Barford, a title previously held by AH425 in the UK.
32		Nakhon Phanom	Aveling-Barford		(ca 1949)	Nakhon Phanom District Highways Office, GPS Co-ordinates: N 17.3709763° E 104.7933811° Carries boiler number 4225 (last recorded number is 4222 so works number cannot be worked out)
33		Phayao Highway District, Donsanam Rd, Phayao	Aveling-Barford
34		Mae Moh Mine Museum near Lampang	Aveling-Barford			See this picture which led to the identification of its location. N 18° 18' 54.300079" E 99° 44' 31.671423"
41		Nakhon Phanom	Aveling & Porter	10375	1922	Piston Valves Tessaban Office, GPS Co-ordinates: N 17.4078208° E 104.7808239°
42		(near) Chiang Mai	Aveling & Porter			On the 1006 road, some 3km east of San Kamphaeng and about 20 km east of Chiang Mai, outside the Highway sub-district office. For a 2008 picture on a different base see Picture on http://www.pbase.com/win13/image/92569427 .
43		Krabi Beach Resort	Aveling & Porter			Strictly it's at Ao Nang. Diesel conversion! For pictures see http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/02/51/7b/08/filename-dsc5712-jpg.jpg, http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_M9pRf9MYG9E/S3uioQw0xTI/AAAAAAAAA0I/gjvfIsstHh0/s1600-h/DSCN1228.JPG and http://www.geocaching.com/seek/cache_details.aspx?guid=b65e06e3-12a2-4be9-98fe-562a64436637. Derek Rayner thinks it is probably 3305/1893.
44		Nakhon Chaisi (near Nakhon Pathom)	Aveling & Porter			Jesada Teknik Museum have a 10ton Aveling and Porter subsequently converted to diesel. See ~~http://2bangkok.com/forum/showthread.php?3216-Jesada-Technik-Museum~~ (link dead 26th April 2014) Derek Rayner thinks it is probably 2469/1889.
45		Lopburi	Aveling & Porter			In front of the mechanic (engineering) department Lopburi Technical College (Lopburi Mechanical School) Potential visitors should be aware that the town has more than its fair share of wild monkeys.
51		Bangkok Rama 1 Road	Garrett - Leiston, England	33021	1917	Pathumwan Institute of Technology, permission needed to enter. Formerly at the National Science Education Centre, Ekamai, Bangkok (shown here). Robert Whitehead adds: This is an 8 ton three shaft roller, with single cylinder, code-name 'Prince'. It was sold to the Royal State Railways of Siam, Bangkok.
61		Sukothai Highways Department	Henschel		1934	At Highways Department, on the main road to Phitsanulok, east of town Carries 30 - 31930 - 0039 - 34
62		Bangkok, Department of Highways Museum, Rama VI Road	Henschel		1937	Carries 30 - 3190 - 003787 - 0037 - 37
63		Department of Highways, Hua Hin	Henschel	3823	1937	GPS Co-ordinates: N 12.581469° E 99.952618° (This is some 2km north of Hua Hin station on Thanom Phet Kassem which runs parallel to the line on the beach side, by Hua Hin 47.) Carries 30 - 31930 - 0035 - 37
64		Phatthalung	Henschel			See this blog and this picture. At Saen Suk Lampam Beach
71		Sakon Nakhon	Ruston & Hornsby, Lincoln, England	114302	1920	Two cylinder compound. Plinthed in the Highways Office gardens. On the left at the end of highway 22 from Udon Thani, where it meets the main road into town, opposite the 4 columned ornamental arch. GPS Co-ordinates: N 17.1705514° E 104.1425226° Carries 30 - 005230 - 0005 - 20
72		Nonthaburi (NW Bangkok)	Ruston & Hornsby, Lincoln, England	141126	1926	In front of the mechanical engineering branch Rajamangala University of Technology Suvarnabhumi Nonthaburi Campus Carries a plate “Agents: United Engineers Ltd. Singapore and Branches” - it went new to this company.
73		(near) Chiang Mai	Ruston & Hornsby, Lincoln, England	143152	ca 1926	10km north of Chiang Mai on right side of highway 107 to Mae Rim opposite Don Kaew Community Hospital.
74		Highways Office, Phitsanulok	Ruston & Hornsby, Lincoln, England		1926	See this picture and this picture and this picture. Viewable in Google Streetview. Carries 30 - 0100 - 26
75		Udon Thani (29th December 2010)	Ruston & Hornsby, Lincoln, England			10km south of the town on the Khon Kaen road, incomplete.
76		Phichit Highways Department	Ruston & Hornsby, Lincoln, England			GPS Co-ordinates: N 16° 21' 24.709086" E 100° 22' 16.989188"
77		Trang Highway district	Ruston & Hornsby, Lincoln, England			Na Tham Nuea, Trang GPS Co-ordinates N 7.599705, E 99.601335 Carries a plate “Agents: United Engineers Ltd. Singapore and Bangkok”
	Information please on this one!

The following pictures show part of a Henschel compound roller preserved in Chiang Mai - for the location see note 29 at the bottom of the preserved Thai steam locomotive list.

Traction Engines

	Location	Maker	Number	Year	Notes
101	Bangkok Rama 1 Road	John Fowler - Leeds, England	17294		Pathumwan Institute of Technology, permission needed to enter. Formerly at the National Science Education Centre, Ekamai, Bangkok
102	Kanchanaburi				War Museum. Derek Rayner's best guess is that it is from a Marshall steam roller.
103	Song, Phrae County (see link right)	Ransomes, Sims & Jefferies	32013	1920	More information and pictures are available.
104	Bangkok, Department of Highways Museum, Rama VI Road	Marshall	????		According to David Parfitt / Derek Rayner this is a Marshall 'Gainsborough' type.

Portable and Other Steam Engines

	Location	Maker	Number	Year	Notes
121	Talard Park, Nakorn Sri Thammarat	Ruston Proctor, Lincoln, England			GPS Coordinates 8.452848 N, 99.951583 E See ~~http://www.john-tom.com/html/SteamEnginesThailand.html~~ (Link broken by December 2023. RD) Possibly from a rice or saw mill in the area, dates from period 1899 - 1918
122	22 km east of Ubon Ratchathani on Highway 217	Garrett		ca 1924	By the entrance gate to the Department of Agriculture Crops Research Centre. More information and pictures are available.
123	8.808623548534007, 99.36213276008435 Open air museum Khlong Chawang narrow bridge Na San, Ban Na San District, Surat Thani 84120, Thailand	Wolf, Magdeburg			Semi-portable engine from a sawmill.

Long shots

	Location	Maker	Number	Year	Notes
151	Phuket	Clayton and Shuttleworth, Lincoln England			Spotted in a municipal yard in 1987.
152	Phuket	Ruston Proctor, Lincoln, England			Spotted in a municipal yard in 1987.

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