Re: South Africa Steam Trains: Garratt Loco page updated

[Graeme Wall <rail@greywall.demon.co.uk>]

In message <g3gk6.33204$mO6.602172@news6-win.server.ntlworld.com>
          "David Thornhill" <worlddiesel@proweb.co.uk> 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.
> --
> David
> Replace diesel with steam to reply.
> 
> 
Warning: Blatant plug!  There are three in the Nairobi Railway Museum
including the largest loco built for metre gauge, see my website:
-- 
Graeme Wall
Transport Miscellany pages at <http://www.greywall.demon.co.uk/rail.html>