Surviving Steam Trams of the World
Standard Gauge Steam Locomotives with some Tram Features

This page is one of a series of pages using the research of Don Sibley and Derek Rayner. Click one of the links below for the other pages:

• Surviving Steam Trams of the World - introduction and acknowledgements

• Steam Trams of North West Europe (UK, France, Belgium, Netherlands) (updated 26th November 2024)

• Steam Trams of the Rest of Europe (new picture and relocation 28th February 2021)

• Steam Trams of Africa, Asia, South America and Australasia (bad news 26th September 2014)

• Steam Dummies (North America) (new photograph, 12th August 2013, new entry 13th August 2013)

Not quite steam trams but…

• Skirt Tanks (Europe, South America and Asia)

• Near Misses (some oddities) (new picture 29th September 2015)

Definitely not steam trams but…

• Non-Standard Gauge Steam Locomotives with some Tram Features (another picture 29th October 2013, new link 2nd November 2013)

• Cockerill Locomotives (restoration of 3157, 11th August 2021)

• Steam Railcars (new picture 13th March 2023)

This page was updated on 29th April 2024 with the discovery of an Énergie 0-4-0T near Charleroi in Belgium, previously on 17th October 2014 with a picture of the J. S. Fry Sentinel and on 16th June 2013 with a new entry for the locomotive in the Deutsches Technikmuseum, Berlin..

While doing this research, a number of oddballs turned up including European shunting locomotives with a vertical boiler which is enclosed with the cab, they are by no stretch of the imagination steam tram locomotives but they are curiosities which most serious students of the subject would find interesting, hence their inclusion on this separate page.

The Sentinel locomotives are a wonderful cul-de-sac in steam development. If pushed, I would describe them as a 'stationary steam engine on rails', the connection being by crankshaft, (gears) and chain. I have included only a small selection of those which are the most tramlike - chosen for their international spread and accessibility. In addition to those listed below, there are others which from the outside look like an early diesel shunter, for more information on all Sentinel products (including road vehicles) see the Sentinel Drivers Club website and in particular their list of surviving Sentinels (the link http://www.sentinelwaggons.co.uk/3.Sentinel/LOCOSUV Sheet1.pdf was out of date and some details were wrong). The last real Sentinels in the world are to be found in Cruzeiro, Brazil. Serious locomotive students should also read http://sentinel7109.blogspot.co.uk/ which covers the restoration of Sentinel 7109 and includes information on others from this builder.

Click on a thumbnail for a larger picture, then click the link or the image to return to this page. The page with the larger image carries the name of the photographer concerned, as you will see further pictures are needed. If you can fill the gaps or provide an alternative larger image approx 800 x 600, please get in touch using the email address at the bottom of the page.

'Glaskasten' Locomotives
(See https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayerische_PtL_2/2 and https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bayerische_ML_2/2)

Skirtless Trams in the ''Glaskasten' Tradition

	Owner	Owner No	Builder	Wks No/date	Gauge (mm)	Wheels	Location / Notes
Germany
	Württembergische Nebenbahnen AG	KL-2	Esslingen	3481/1908	1435	0-4-0	Deutsches Technikmuseum, Berlin. To Königliche Württembergische Staats-Eisenbahn in 1911 used for shunting at Tübingen and Ulm. To dealer A. Euler, Braunschweig in 1917,  who resold her to the Kupfer- und Drahtwerke Osnabrück.
Switzerland
	Huttwil Wohlhusen Bahn	5	SLM	3610/1936	1435	0-6-0	SBB Historic, Erstfeld Picture  http://www.sbbhistoric.ch/historisches-erbe/fahrzeuge/fahrzeugdaten/dampftraktion/ec-33-hwb-5/ dead by October 2014

An Austrian Curiosity

	Owner	Owner No	Builder	Wks No/date	Gauge (mm)	Wheels	Location / Notes
Austria
	Österreichischen Bundesbahn	BBÖ DT 1.07	Floridsdorf	3081/1935	1435	2-4-2	Strasshof Museum, Vienna Loco has a large luggage compartment, often used on push-pull trains between two coaches. Information and more information.

A Selection of 'Square' Sentinel Steam Locomotives (plus one a bit round)...

	Owner	Owner No	Builder	Wks No/date	Gauge (mm)	Wheels	Location / Notes
United Kingdom
	Coalbrookdale Co. Ltd	5	Sentinel	6155/1925	1435	0-4-0	Converted from a conventional locomotive hence has rods. Ironbridge Gorge Museums
	Great Western Railway	12	Sentinel	6515/1926	1435	4W	Buckinghamshire Railway Centre Information and Picture
Your Picture Here!	London & North Eastern Railway (British Railways 68153)	59	Sentinel	8837/1933	1435	4W	Middleton Railway, Leeds Information and picture (Link to http://www.train-photos.com/picture/number8807.asp broken by 1st November 2018)
		'Gervase'	Sentinel	6807/1928	1435	4W	Elsecar Heritage Railway
!	Croydon Gas Works		Sentinel	7109/1927	1435	4W	Midsomer Norton Information and pictures
	British Tar Products, Irlam	'Ann'	Sentinel	7232/1927	1435	4W	Embsay
	J.S. Fry & Co, Somerdale		Sentinel	7492/1928	1435	4W	Bitton Railway Centre
Your Picture Here!	London & North Eastern Railway (British Railways 68153)	59	Sentinel	8837/1933	1435	4W	Middleton Railway, Leeds  Information  More information and picture - http://www.train-photos.com/picture/number8807.asp, link broken 5th April 2019
	Royal Ordnance Factory, Hooton, Wirral	9387/1948	Sentinel	9369/1945	1435	4W	Northamptonshire Ironstone Railway Trust
Your Picture Here!	British Gypsum Ltd, Newark	'St. Monans'	Sentinel	9373/1947	1435	4W	Ribble Steam Railway Information and picture
Your Picture Here!	Ind Coope and Allsop, Burton		Sentinel	9376/1947	1435	4W	Rutland Railway Museum
Your Picture Here!	Roads Reconstruction	2	Sentinel	9387/1948	1435	4W	Tytherington Quarry, South Gloucestershire
Your Picture Here!	National Coal Board, Silverdale Colliery		Sentinel	9535/1952	1435	4W	Foxfield Railway
	Chesterfield Tube Co. Ltd	'Susan'	Sentinel	9537/1952	1435	4W	Buckinghamshire Railway Centre Information and picture
Your Picture Here!	Courtauld Fibres, Grimsby	'William'	Sentinel	9599/1956	1435	4W	Elsecar Heritage Railway
	Tee-Side Bridge & Eng Works, Cargo Fleet	5 'Frank Galbraith'	Sentinel	9629/1957	1435	4W	National Railway Museum, York
Your Picture Here!	West Midlands Gas Board, Walsall		Sentinel	9632/1957	1435	4W	Chasewater Railway  Picture

Alexander Chaplin Locomotives

Other unusual 'Square' Locomotives

	Owner	Owner No	Builder	Wks No/date	Gauge (mm)	Wheels	Location / Notes
	Dorking Greystone Lime Company		Head Wrightson	??/1871	1435	0-4-0	Beamish Museum  Information  Photograph
			Head Wrightson	21/1870	1435	0-4-0	Thornaby (now at Preston Park) Photograph
Your Picture Here!			Head Wrightson	33/1870	1435	0-4-0	Beamish Museum Photograph
United States
Your Picture Here!	Hasard Coal Mine	336A	St. Leonard	466/1877	1435	0-4-0	Susquehanna House Restaurant, PA  Information  Photograph
	Rigi Bahnen	7	SLM	1/1873	1435	2-2-0	Rigi Bahnen

Other Steam Locomotives with Enclosed Cab and Boiler (see also Cockerill locomotives)

	Owner	Owner No	Builder	Wks No/date	Gauge (mm)	Wheels	Location / Notes
Belgium
	Fabrique de Fer, Charleroi	'Victorine'	Hainaut	1833/1930	1435	0-4-0	Stoomcentrum Maldegem
Your Picture Here!			Énergie	28/1912	1435	0-4-0	Found locally in a wood in 2021. Now in Le Bois du Czier Museum, Marcinelle,Charleroi.