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The Kerr, Stuart & Co. 'Tattoo' Class was a series of narrow-gauge 0-4-2 saddle-tank locomotives built by Kerr, Stuart & Co. of Stoke-on-Trent, including two examples that became celebrated members of the Talyllyn Railway's fleet in mid-Wales: Sir Haydn (No. 3) and Edward Thomas (No. 4), both of which were acquired from the Corris Railway when that line closed in 1948 and have worked the Talyllyn ever since as part of the world's first preserved railway's remarkable heritage fleet.

The Kerr Stuart Tattoo class locomotives give the Talyllyn Railway a link to the Corris Railway — another of the Cambrian mountain slate and passenger railways of mid-Wales — and the presence of these two locomotives alongside the Talyllyn's original Fletcher Jennings engines (No. 1 Talyllyn and No. 2 Dolgoch) gives the preserved Talyllyn a fleet spanning different builders and different decades of narrow-gauge locomotive engineering. Both Sir Haydn and Edward Thomas are operational on the Talyllyn Railway and are well-loved by the railway's volunteers and visitors.