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Re: Status of Garratts



jdennis@acslink.net.au (John Dennis) wrote:

>>> >-- Hi all,
>>> >	can anyone tell me what the current operational/preservation status of
>>> >Garratt type engines in Austrailia ?

The world's first Garrat, TGR's K1 (actually bits of K1 and K2
combined), a 2-ft gauge job, still exists, but it's in the U.K., at
the National Railway Museum (I think).  It is almost operational (I
think) because the Ffestiniog had it for some years and were restoring
it to running condition.

Geoff Lambert