The most famous class of engines to travel across the famous Barmouth Bridge was the Great Western Railway Earl or ‘Dukedog’ class of 4-4-0 locomotives. Just one has survived and has been on the Bluebell Railway since 1961.
Nicknamed ‘Dukedogs’’ since they were an amalgamation of the chassis of a Bulldog with the boiler of a Duke, the parts of this loco are thus actually older than the building date suggests of 1936/8. A few of until preservation days.