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The company named Railway Plants Co situated in Leeds made some coaches for Finnish State Railways in the end of 1800 century. I have tried to find information of this company but with no success. Please let me know if you have any information of Railway Plants Co, Leeds.

 

Petri Sallinen

Helsinki, Finland

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The company named Railway Plants Co situated in Leeds made some coaches for Finnish State Railways in the end of 1800 century. I have tried to find information of this company but with no success. Please let me know if you have any information of Railway Plants Co, Leeds.

 

Petri Sallinen

Helsinki, Finland

 

Hello Petri,

 

I assume you've already seen this:

 

https://www.gracesguide.co.uk/Leeds_Railway_Plant_Co

 

Not much, I know!

 

Best wishes

Ed

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on graces guide, the 1870 directory says, the new dock works, Black Bull Street which is near the Royal Armouries, a look on the old maps online, show its at the junction with Chadwick street, now the site of the Ruth Gorse academy

 

in the 1870 Engineer article, the company only gets a small mention as going out of business

 

new dock foundry, C.1846 -1852

http://maps.nls.uk/view/102344959#

 

in this 1901 under the name S. Bastow & sons

http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/onlineex/firemaps/england/yorkshire/zoomify149134.html

 

at least by 1893 there was also another new dock foundry a few hundred feet to the south

 

it looks like there isnt going to much to find as it went by 1870

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Hi Petri

 

I have never heard of that company but do know that a company called The Leeds Forge built quite a lot of coaches for European railways until I think the 1920's. These included several for Wagon Lits.    

 

If you do not get any more information it might be worth contacted the people who run this web site.

http://www.leedsengine.info/leeds/default.asp

They have access to a lot of historical information.

 

Good Luck.

 

Jamie

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Other than the above brief mention on Grace's Guide this is the first time I had heard about this company.

 

I too would agree with Jamie as I'd have thought most of the rolling stock would probably have been built by the Leeds Forge. Many years ago had a meal in one built by the forge on a turn table in an Indian museum!

 

http://www.leedsengine.info/leeds/histlfo.asp

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Other than the above brief mention on Grace's Guide this is the first time I had heard about this company.

 

I too would agree with Jamie as I'd have thought most of the rolling stock would probably have been built by the Leeds Forge. Many years ago had a meal in one built by the forge on a turn table in an Indian museum!

 

http://www.leedsengine.info/leeds/histlfo.asp

 

Andrew, just a point about Leeds Forge, how did they manage to deliver the continental gauge coaches.  I know that they had a standard gauge connection via the goods yards that ran between the river and the canal but they obviously couldn't send a Wagon Lit sleeper out that way.  I presume that they used road transport, possibly to Goole or Hull.

 

Jamie

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