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(Northamptonshire Ironstone Co Ltd until 1928)

The Quarries were situated to the north of the village of Byield. The quarries had a standard guage railway system which ran south to a connection with the Stratford Upon Avon & Midland Junction Railway/LMS about half a mile west of Byfield station. Production started in 1915 but ran only until 1925, to be started once more in 1928, running up until final closure on the 12 th of February, 1965. Upon closure all the equipment was dismantled and the workings systematically erased from the landscape, so much so as it is hard to find any evidence as I type (December 2008)

• 4ft 8.5’ James 0-4-0st OC P 996 1904 (a) Scr c/1941
• Northfield 0-6-0st OC P 717 1898 (b) (1)
• Jeannie Waddell 0-6-0st IC P 464 1888
• - - reb AE 1898 (c) Scr c/1923
• 0-6-0 IC MW 1235 1890 (d) Scr c3/1962

• Lance.B.Pain 0-6-0st IC HC 347 1892 (e) Scr 2/1965
• Byfield No2 0-6-0st OC WB 2655 1942 New
• (2) Cherwell 0-6-0st OC WB 2654 1942 (f)
• (5) Sir Berkley 0-6-0st IC MW 1210 1890 reb MW 1909 (g)
• (3) No3 Avonside 0-6-0st OC AE 1919 1924 (h)
• (4)

Legend:

• MW=Manning Wardle,
• Leeds HC='Hudswell Clarke
• WB = W.G.Bagnall Ltd., Stafford.
• AE = Avonside Engine Co. Ltd., Bristol
• P = Preckett & Sons Ltd., Bristol.
• (a) Ex James Pain Ltd, Glendon East Quarries. C 1915
• (b) Ex John Griffiths & sons, Glenburn Colliery, Lancs
• (c) Ex Great Mountian Collieries Co Ltd. Carms. c/1917
• (d) Ex P, 1929; earlier Westleigh Stone & Lime Co, Burlescombe, Devon.
• (e) Ex Furness Shipbuilding Co. County Durham c/1923
• (f) Ex Park Gate Iron & Steel Co Ltd. Charwelton Quarries. C/1945
• (g) Ex Cranford Ironstone Co Ltd Cranford Quarries 1959
• (1) Ex Staveley Iron & Chemical Co Ltd, Derbys. 1960
• (2) To Bloxham Quarries, Oxford 1918
• (3) To Oxfordshire Ironstone Co Ltd, Banbury Oxon 1946
• (4) To Keighley & Worth Valley Railway Yorkshire 1965
• (5)To Staveley Minerals Ltd. Cranford. 1965
• (6) To Daventry Borough Council, New Street recreation Ground. 1966