Registered Museum No. RD1433 / Amgueddfa Gofrestredig Rhif RD1433
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Guinness Loco No. 13
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Guinness Brewery No. 13
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| Guinness No. 13 arriving in Tywyn. |
This engine is an unusual 0-4-0 tank, built to the design of the engineer Samuel Geoghegan for working in the confines of the Guinness Brewery at St. James' Gate, Dublin. Constructed by William Spence and Company in 1895, it was able to be converted, by use of an ingenious converter truck, to shunt Irish standard gauge wagons as well. The locomotive is of an unusual design with the cylinders and crank shaft mounted on top of the boiler and driving the wheels via vertical connecting rods. The small size of the locomotive was dictated by the spiral tunnel linking two parts of the brewery, which made 2 1/2 complete turns on a gradient of 1 in 39. No. 13 arrived in Tywyn in 1956.
The brewery lines were constructed to a gauge of 1 ft. 10 in. One of the converter trucks survives at the Amberley Chalk Pits Museum.