Re: Status of Garratts

["Roderick Smith" <rodsmith@werple.net.au>]

one running tours in Queensland
6029 at Canberra, with talk about restoration soon (a spare boiler has been
obtained)
@ two others in NSW, static.
G42 now 10 years into restoration on Puffing Billy Railway (Victoria), with
planned completion in 2000.
An ex Alfred County Garratt at PBR, to be gauge converted after G42 is
running.
An Australian Standard Garratt in the ARHS museum, Melbourne.
One or two 400s in SA, static.
Nothing in WA.
A miniature Garratt on Bush Mill Tramway, Tasmania.  This loco toured UK a
couple of years ago, and ran on two railways there.
-- 

Roderick Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor

Neil Paku <neil@mcs.vuw.ac.nz> wrote in article
<340BCC7F.5369@mcs.vuw.ac.nz>...
> -- Hi all,
> 	can anyone tell me what the current operational/preservation status of
> Garratt type engines in Austrailia ?
> Cheers,
> 	Neil.
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