Sharp, Stewart & Co

Introduction

Atlas Works [2nd]



Dates

  /  /1857Sharp, Stewart & Co, Manchester
James Reid joins company.
  /  /1863Sharp, Stewart & Co, Manchester
James Reid leaves company.
  /  /1888Clyde Locomotive Works
Works sold to Sharp, Stewart & Co to replace their existing works (Atlas Works [1st]). The works are re-named the Atlas Works [2nd].
  /  /1889Sharp, Stewart & Co
Walter Neilson, director of company, dies.
  /  /1893City of Dublin Junction Railways
The Dublin, Wicklow and Wexford Railway buys locomotives from Sharp, Stewart & Co to work through trains from its line over the Junction line and Liffey line to Islandbridge Junction for through traffic to the Great Southern and Western Railway.
  /  /1903North British Locomotive Company
Formed by an amalgamation of Neilson, Reid & Co (Hyde Park Works [2nd]), Sharp, Stewart & Co (Atlas Works [2nd]) and Dübs & Co (Queens Park Locomotive Works).