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Now this is a funny fella, this is the Barry Railway D Class the first 0-8-0 built for Britain, in fact, they weren't even built for the railway 20 of them being for the Swedish & Norwegian Railway, but due to money issues only one and a half were paid for, how do you pay for half an engine? Oh wait you pay half the price.

Two engines were kept in Britain fact the other two were stuck in a drawn-out legal dispute the first two given to Barry were what was to have been S&N 25 and 26, whilst S&N N0's 5 and 8 were still in Sweden, after the case ended in Sharp Stewards Favour 5 and 8 became 92 and 93.
I'm going to copy-paste Wikipedias article on their traffic duties.

An attractive feature of these locomotives for the Barry Railway had been their short overall length, due to their diminutive four-wheeled tenders. This made them unusually short for their power, suitable for the Barry Railway's restrictively short turntables, and their resultant limited range was not an issue for the short journeys of the Welsh mineral traffic. On arrival, the locomotives did very little main line duty but were confined to pulling heavy coal trains from Cadoxton Yard to Barry Docks.

However, in 1909, 92 and 93 were assigned to haul mineral trains from the coal pits on the Rhymney branch of the Brecon and Merthyr to Cadoxton Yard and were mechanically modified for the purpose.

Some fittings were modified on adoption in the UK, and later by the GWR.

The original Salter safety valve fitted to the dome was removed, relying solely on the pop valves also fitted. Minor fittings, such as the handrails, were replaced by more GWR styles.

The tenders were fitted with vertical weatherboards and spectacle windows. In 1922, on absorption by the GWR, their cabs were rebuilt more extensively, without the side windows but with an extended rear roof, they also gained the typical GWR flared brass cover to their safety valves.

Credits: Swiftwin4ds, and Princess-Muffins, all edits by Midnight Express

Description
Now this is a funny fella, this is the Barry Railway D Class the first 0-8-0 built for Britain, in fact, they weren't even built for the railway 20 of them being for the Swedish & Norwegian Railway, but due to money issues only one and a half were paid for, how do you pay for half an engine? Oh wait you pay half the price.

Two engines were kept in Britain fact the other two were stuck in a drawn-out legal dispute the first two given to Barry were what was to have been S&N 25 and 26, whilst S&N N0's 5 and 8 were still in Sweden, after the case ended in Sharp Stewards Favour 5 and 8 became 92 and 93.
I'm going to copy-paste Wikipedias article on their traffic duties.

An attractive feature of these locomotives for the Barry Railway had been their short overall length, due to their diminutive four-wheeled tenders. This made them unusually short for their power, suitable for the Barry Railway's restrictively short turntables, and their resultant limited range was not an issue for the short journeys of the Welsh mineral traffic. On arrival, the locomotives did very little main line duty but were confined to pulling heavy coal trains from Cadoxton Yard to Barry Docks.

However, in 1909, 92 and 93 were assigned to haul mineral trains from the coal pits on the Rhymney branch of the Brecon and Merthyr to Cadoxton Yard and were mechanically modified for the purpose.

Some fittings were modified on adoption in the UK, and later by the GWR.

The original Salter safety valve fitted to the dome was removed, relying solely on the pop valves also fitted. Minor fittings, such as the handrails, were replaced by more GWR styles.

The tenders were fitted with vertical weatherboards and spectacle windows. In 1922, on absorption by the GWR, their cabs were rebuilt more extensively, without the side windows but with an extended rear roof, they also gained the typical GWR flared brass cover to their safety valves.

Credits: Swiftwin4ds, and Princess-Muffins, all edits by Midnight Express