Walker Brothers (Wigan)
Wigan Brothers was a railway rolling stock manufacturer based in Wigan, England.History
In 1886, John Scarisbrick Walker established Globe Foundry in Wigan. He was later joined by brothers Thomas and Edwin and the business renamed Walker Brothers. Initially based in Queen Street, it moved to Pagefield Works in 1874. It initially manufactured steam locomotives before diversifying in the 1930s to produce diesel locomotives and railcars. It closed in the early 1960s.Products
Locomotives
Between 1932 and 1953, Walker Brothers produced the following railcars:
- Clogher Valley Railway, Ireland: 1
- County Donegal Railways Joint Committee, Ireland: 8
- Great Northern Railway, Ireland: 7
- Emu Bay Railway, Australia: 1
- São Paulo Railway Company, Brazil: 4
- Sligo, Leitrim and Northern Counties Railway, Ireland: 1
- Victorian Railways Walker railmotor: 64
- Peruvian Corporation, Peru: 12
- Coras Iompair Eireann, Ireland: 4
- Cyrenaica Railways, Libya: 1
