Hugh Phillips
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Hugh Phillips Engineering were specialists in the manufacture of steam loco valves and controls.
In 1985-1986 they restored six of the Sudan Railways 2-8-2 for grain haulage.
In 1989 they built three diesel railcars for Sudan, and one for Mozambique. In 1991 they built three 3ft gauge 4-4-0 steam locos and fifteen carriages for Euro Disney[1]. In 1992 a railcar was built for Irish Railways[2].
1992 the company went into receivership, but was resurrected as HPE Tredegar Ltd who continued in the same business, building railcars for Ghana and Tanzania. In 1995 they built three railcars for the Snowdon Mountain Railway; these eventually proved to be unsuccessful and by 2003 had been withdrawn.
In 1996 the company gained rights to build Baguley-Drewry locomotives, and were said to have an order for seven locos for the Gezira Light Rly, Sudan. Only three were built (actually heavy rebuilds of existing Baguley Drewry locos) before the company went into receivership again.
