Description:The steam locomotive No. 51 G pictured in this W.H. Bagnall's of Stafford publicity card is one of a pair (with No. 52 G) of narrow-gauge engines supplied to the Bhavnagar State Railway, India around 1934. It is a 0-8-0 narrow gauge pannier tank loco. The reverse of this card shows the technical details.
W.G. Bagnall Ltd. was established in 1870 in Castle Street. Bagnall's first locomotive was produced in 1875, the company going on to produce machines for collieries and overseas plantations. Eventually Bagnall's was manufacturing powerful locomotives for some of the world's most important railways.
In 1951 Bagnall's merged with Brush Traction Ltd., and in 1959 the firm was sold to W.H. Dorman Ltd. Two years later they were taken over by the English Electric Co. and production at the Castle Street works ceased.