A fireless locomotive is a type of locomotive which uses reciprocating engines powered from a reservoir of compressed air or steam, which is filled at intervals from an external source. They offer advantages over conventional steam locomotives of lower cost per unit, cleanliness, and decreased risk from fire or boiler explosion; these are counterbalanced by the need for a source to refill the locomotive, and by the limited range afforded by the reservoir.
- Alexander Chaplin
- Andrew Barclay
- Aveling and Porter
- Avonside
- Bagnall
- Beyer Peacock
- Black Hawthorn
- Brush
- Coalbrookdale
- Cockerill
- E Borrows
- E.B. Wilson
- Fletcher Jennings
- Fox Walker
- Gibb and Hogg
- Grant Ritchie
- Hawthorn
- Haydock
- Head Wrightson
- Hudswell Clarke
- Hunslet
- Kerr Stuart
- Kitson
- Manning Wardle
- Markham
- Nasmyth Wilson
- Neilson
- North British
- Peckett
- Robert Heath
- Robert Stephenson (and Hawthorn)
- Sentinel
- Sharp Stewart
- South Durham
- Stephen Lewin
- Vulcan Foundry
- Wigan Coal
- Yorkshire Engine Company
- Crane Tanks
- Fireless Locos
- AEC
- ALCO
- Andrew Barclay
- Armstrong Whitworth
- Bagnall
- Baguley Ltd
- British Thomson Houston
- Brush
- Clayton
- Cockerill
- Consett
- Dietrich
- Drewry
- English Electric
- Express Service
- FC Hibberd and Co Ltd
- Fowler
- Gaston Moyse
- GEC Traction
- General Motors
- Hawthorn Leslie
- Howard
- Hudswell Clarke
- Hunslet
- ICI
- Jung
- Kent Construction
- Kerr Stuart
- Lake and Elliot
- MaK
- Mercury
- Motor Rail Ltd
- Noord
- North British
- Orenstein und Koppel
- Peckett
- RFS Engineering
- Robert Stephenson and Hawthorn
- Rolls Royce
- Ruston Hornsby
- Schoma
- Sentinel
- SVI
- Thomas Hill
- Tractive Power
- Vollert
- Vulcan Foundry
- Werkspoor
- Yorkshire Engine Company
- ACI Elevation
- AEG
- Baguley Ltd
- BemoRail
- British Thomson Houston
- Brush
- Clayton
- CPM
- English Electric
- Express Service
- GEC
- Greenwood and Batley
- Harmill
- Hawthorn Leslie
- Hunslet
- Kerr Stuart
- Niteq
- Robert Stephenson Hawthorn
- Schalke
- Sculfort
- Siemens
- Stored Energy Technology
- Vollert
- Wickham
- Windhoff
- Zephir
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Steam loco
Fireless Locomotives produced by Andrew Barclay
Andrew Barclay Sons & Co. are a builder of steam and later fireless and diesel locomotives. The company's history dates to foundation of an engineering workshop in 1840 in Kilmarnock, Scotland. After a long period of operation the company was acquired by the Hunslet group in 1972 and renamed Hunslet-Barclay, as of 2012 the company still operates in Kilmarnock providing rail engineering services as Wabtec Rail Scotland.
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Builder | Andrew Barclay |

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Steam loco
Fireless Locomotives produced by Bagnall
The Stafford locomotive construction company started in 1875 when William Gordon Bagnall took over the millwright business of Massey and Hill. The first railway locomotive was built the following year. The majority of their products were small four and six-coupled steam locomotives for industrial use. In addition to building locomotives to designs produced by W G Bagnall the company also built engines as contractors to organisations who had designed them. This included designs produced by the GWR and the LMS.
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Builder | W.G. Bagnall |

Photo: Dan Cardwell