Barry Railway Class D

The Barry Railway Class D were 0-8-0 steam tender engines built to a modified Sharp Stewart design by John Waddington Mann for the Swedish & Norwegian Railway (S&N). Despite ordering 20 locomotives, financial difficulties led to only one and a half being paid for. Two locomotives, S&N 25 and 26, were never delivered overseas and later purchased by the Barry Railway in October 1889 as numbers 35 and 36. Another pair, S&N 5 and 8, were seized by bailiffs in Norway in 1891 and returned to Sharp Stewart after a lengthy legal battle. These locomotives were eventually delivered to the Barry Railway in March and April 1897 as numbers 92 and 93, becoming the first eight-coupled locomotives in UK service.

The Class D were primarily used for coal trains on the Vale of Glamorgan Line due to their short length, which suited the Barry Railway's restrictive turntables. In 1909, locomotives 92 and 93 were modified for mineral trains on the Rhymney branch. The engines underwent minor modifications upon arrival in the UK, including changes to safety valves and tenders. After being absorbed by the Great Western Railway (GWR) in 1922, their cabs were rebuilt further. All Class D locomotives were withdrawn between 1927 and 1930 and subsequently scrapped.