Re: South Africa Steam Trains: Garratt Loco page updated

[<Alastair@elmarie.fsnet.co.uk>]

"steamfreak" <steamfreak711@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> <Alastair@elmarie.fsnet.co.uk> wrote in message
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> >
> > ...
> > > > > 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
> > >
> > I had included the ACR Garratts at Paddock in my guestimate.  The
> Shepstone
> > site cannot hold a huge number of locos and storing them on the coast
with
> > the salt air is not a good idea.
> >
> > Does the 16 Garratts include the ones they obtained from the old Ixopo
> > branch a couple of years ago?  (I forget the name of the shed but recall
> the
> > locos sat for many years after closure of the line by SAR).
>

Umzinto (spelling?) wasthe name I was looking for.

> I would say so, they moved them all from the Ixopo line a couple of years
> ago.  Some went to Shepstone and some to Paddock.  I went to have a look
but
> the storage area at Paddock is also an army camp now, and they weren't too
> happy about me being in the area, let alone walking through their camp to
> see the locos.
>
> steamfreak
>
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