Bowesfield Works
Bowesfield Works was a railway locomotive manufacturing plant in . The works was operated by a joint venture company called Metropolitan Vickers-Beyer Peacock from 1949 until 1960.
Coordinates: 54°32′57″N 1°19′43″W / 54.5493°N 1.3286°W
Metropolitan-Vickers and Beyer, Peacock & Co. formed a joint venture company in November 1949 to design and manufacture diesel, electric and gas turbine locomotives. Because Beyer, Peacock’s Gorton works was still busy producing steam locomotives, an alternative site for the new locomotives to be built had to be found. A factory at Yarm Road, , on which Metrovicks had acquired a lease in 1947, was chosen as the location. The factory which had been built in 1946 for the American construction machinery company LeTourneau, was almost brand new, and covered an area of around 95,000 square feet (8,800 m2), later extended to over 125,000 square feet (11,600 m2) by Metrovicks. The works had its own railway siding running from Bowesfield Junction to the north east of the works. Initially the factory was used by Metrovicks for steel fabrication work before locomotive manufacture began in 1949.
The first locomotives built at the works were fourteen electric locomotives for the Rede Mineira de Viação railway company of Brazil. They were 1,072 horsepower (799 kW), Bo-Bo, 1,000 mm (3 ft 3 3⁄8 in) gauge locomotives. This was followed by another order for ten similar locomotives for Rede de Viação Paraná-Santa Catarina, Brazil.
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