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Locomotives - The Agenoria
Agenoria worked at the Shutt End Colliery, near Birmingham, for over 35 years. It was built to move coal trucks from mine workings to canal and river navigations and surrounding Iron foundries.
Although a contemporary of Rocket, Agenoria used the established steam technology of the first generation of steam locomotives. It has one large single boiler tube to transfer heat from the fire to the water, and a system of beams to control the valves that let steam into and out of the cylinders and drive the locomotive. The system of beams led the local villagers to nickname the locomotive 'the grasshopper'.
The name Agenoria is the female variation of 'Agenor' the god of courage and industry. The builders Foster, Rastrick & Company, built an almost identical machine, the Stourbridge Lion, which was the first locomotive to run on rails in the USA .
Fact File
- Name: Shutt End Colliery 0-4-0 The Agenoria
- Class: unclassified
- Built: 1829, Stourbridge
- Built by: Foster Rastrick & Co.
- Designer: Foster and Rastrick
- Weight: 11 tons
- Cylinders: 3 19" x 26"
- Driving wheel Diameter: 4' 8.5"
- Boiler Pressure: 50 lb / 5 sq in
Locomotive inventory number 1884-92
Photograph reference number NRM_CT_939313