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The Talyllyn Railway Andrew Barclay locomotives are two narrow-gauge saddle-tank engines built by Andrew Barclay Sons & Co. of Kilmarnock and acquired by the Talyllyn Railway to supplement the railway's fleet on the 2 ft 3 in gauge line through the Fathew valley in mid-Wales: No. 7 Tom Rolt and No. 9 Trefor. Tom Rolt is named in honour of the writer and engineer L.T.C. (Tom) Rolt, who was instrumental in the 1951 rescue of the Talyllyn Railway as the world's first preserved railway, and whose memoir Railway Adventure remains one of the most celebrated accounts of early heritage railway preservation. Both locomotives are preserved and operated on the Talyllyn Railway.