Re: South Africa Steam Trains: Garratt Loco page updated

[John Savage <john.savage4@ntlworld.com>]

David Thornhill wrote:

> <Alastair@elmarie.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
> 96ruhq$bli$1@news8.svr.pol.co.uk">news:96ruhq$bli$1@news8.svr.pol.co.uk...
> > I suspect the largest concentration of Garratt locomotives in the world
> > today is on the Alfred County Railway at Port Shepstone, Natal.  Somewhere
> > in the region of 20 odd locomotives, mostly NGG16, although only a couple
> > are runners.
> >
>
> I think not. Unsure of exact figure, but Alfred County cannot have as many
> as 20 Garratts at Port Shepstone. I doubt it is more than 10. And none are
> in working order.
>
> Bulawayo must have greatest concentration of Garratts. Around eight still
> used each day on shunting duties around the city.

I wouldn't count on it. According to the official Garratt Homepage the ACR has
16 Garratts on site, of which 5 are runners. The others are mostly stored at
Paddock, a couple are stored at Port Shepstone.

SANSRAM in Krugersdorp has 14 Garratts of which but 3 are non-oprerational, and
all of those are off site.

So, the largest collection of Garratts would apear to be the ACR, but the
largest collection of operational Garratts would be this SANSRAM place.

For more details check out Gavin Hamilton's Garratt Page

http://users.powernet.co.uk/hamilton/

Cheers,

John