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Alan Keef's works Ross-on-Wye; Locomotive "Woto" on open day 1999

Alan Keef Ltd is a British narrow gauge engineer; manufacturing, overhauling, and dealing in narrow gauge locos, rolling stock and associated equipment.

The Limited Company was formed in 1975 at Cote, Bampton, Oxon, continuing what Alan Keef had already been doing for some years as an individual. In 1986 the company moved to larger premises at Lea Line, Ross-on-Wye in Herefordshire.

The first new loco was built in 1976. To date (2008) over eighty locos have been built; steam, diesel and electric. Most have been narrow gauge except for two standard gauge steam locos for Beamish Museum - the replicas of Steam Elephant and Puffing Billy, and in 2008 Alan Keef Ltd built the frames, running gear and mechanical parts for two Parry People Mover railcars for use on the Stourbridge Town branch (139001 and 139002).

In 1987 the company took over the production of Motor Rail locomotives.

The company have also built replica engines for Beamish museum and helped restore a number of historically significant engines including a Baldwin Class 10-12-D locomotives, one of only two that have been preserved in the UK, No. 778, that now works at Leighton Buzzard Narrow Gauge Railway

New Steam Locomotives

Alan Keef's works Ross-on-Wye; Locomotive "Taffy" on open day 2008
Alan Keef's works Ross-on-Wye; Locomotive "Lydia" on open day 2008
Works No. Plated Year Number/ Name Wheel Arrangement Gauge Class To Notes
1 1974 Trixie 0-4-0ST OC 2ft Trixie First steamed at cote on 05/09/1974, sold to Merion Mill railway ~ Jan 1975. Returned to AK in 1976 and resold to Rail Rebecq in Belgium where it was renamed paula Alan Keef Ltd did not build Trixie, though they were heavily involved in the design. The actual builder was Trevor Barber, former manager of the Whipsnade and Umfolozi Railway.
- 1979 Thomas 4wVB VCG 2ft Telford Development corporation To Telford Horsehay Steam trust c.1987
30 1990 Taffy 0-4-0VBT VC 2ft Alan Keef De Winton replica
38 1991 Tryntje 0-4-0T OC 60 cm De Efterling B.V.
69R 2003 Mark Timothy 2-6-4T OC 15in Bure valley railway
71 2004 Puffing Billy 0-4-0VC 4ft81/2in Beamish Museum
77 2007 Lydia 2-6-2T OC 15in For Perrygrove Railway

References

  • "Alan Keef Ltd - Locomotives Built at Cote". Industrial Railway Record (Industrial Railway Society) (113). June 1988. 
  • Official site
  • A tale of Many Railways - An autobiography and history of Alan Keef Ltd, Lightmoor Press 2008, ISBN 9781899889303
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