English: Kitson & Co. supplied 2-4-0 passenger locomotives, similar to the Great Eastern Railway 374 class designed by Sinclair. They had three safety valves: Ramsbottom type on the firebox with polished gun-metal pillars, and the one on the dome had a spring balance with compound levers, a form of valve known as the Megenhofen type and at that time often used on German and Russian locomotives

The names and numbers of some of these engines were as follows:

227 Brame, 228 Bistritz, 229 Brenz, 230 Bieber, 231 Bartsch, 232 Brahe, 233 Fecht, 234 Fuse (Kitson 1922-29 / 1874), 235 Scheer, 236 Honne, 237 Kirneck, 238 Bigge, 239 Inster, 240 Tanger, 241 Emscher, 242 Lachte (Kitson 1938-45 / 1874)

After being finished, tried and painted at the makers' works, the locomotives were partially dismantled, the boilers, frames and cylinders and the tenders minus the wheels making the largest packages, and were sent to Hull, then shipped as deck loads to Antwerp, where they were again put on their wheels and forwarded to the railway workshops at Montigny, near Metz. Here they were completely re-erected under the superintendence of Robert Weatherburn, the well-known engineer whose reminiscences in connection with the completion and trials of these engines appeared in the Railway Magazine for Feb 1914 and Jan 1915

Two of these engines were lost overboard during a storm in the North Sea, and others were supplied to replace them by the makers