StoneRoad2013's photos with the keyword: Garratt

Drakensberg at Aberystwyth, having just arrived with the 12:30 ex-Devil's Bridge. This Garratt [2-6-2+2-6-2], No.60 aka Drakensberg was built by Hanomag, in Hanover, Germany in 1927. Privately owned, she came to Aberystwyth in 2017 for overhaul and entered passenger service in 2022. Seen previously in the museum during April 2024 ...

"Drakensberg" taking water prior to operating the 10:30 service to Devil's Bridge & return.

Maker's Plate Tasmanian Railways K1 : 0-4-0 + 0-4-0 Built in 1909 to Garratt's patent by Beyer, Peacock [Manchester] : wksno. 5292 K1 aka K 1 1/2 is reputed to have been assembled from parts of both K1 and K2 prior to returning to the UK. She arrived at Portmadoc in 1966 but she was far too big - and heavy - for the Festiniog. However, she can fit into the Welsh Highland route, although her tractive effort is too small for working regular service trains she has made a number of guest visits. I have had the pleasure of travelling behind her on a few occasions. There had been a number of mechanical & steaming issues which lead to her being put on loan to SBR in 2019, with the agreement being that she would be overhauled, and she was back in steam by 2020. I have a fantasy that she pays a visit to the South Tynedale Railway - hearing her storm up to Alston from Slaggyford would be a wonderful cacophony !

Headlamp and leading water tank [no flash] Tasmanian Railways K1 : 0-4-0 + 0-4-0 Built in 1909 to Garratt's patent by Beyer, Peacock [Manchester] : wksno. 5292 K1 aka K 1 1/2 is reputed to have been assembled from parts of both K1 and K2 prior to returning to the UK. She arrived at Portmadoc in 1966 but she was far too big - and heavy - for the Festiniog. However, she can fit into the Welsh Highland route, although her tractive effort is too small for working regular service trains she has made a number of guest visits. I have had the pleasure of travelling behind her on a few occasions. There had been a number of mechanical & steaming issues which lead to her being put on loan to SBR in 2019, with the agreement being that she would be overhauled, and she was back in steam by 2020. I have a fantasy that she pays a visit to the South Tynedale Railway - hearing her storm up to Alston from Slaggyford would be a wonderful cacophony !

Probably the Driver's Side - at least it is on the WHR's other Garratts Also shewn are the "greedy bars" on the coal bunker ... Tasmanian Railways K1 : 0-4-0 + 0-4-0 Built in 1909 to Garratt's patent by Beyer, Peacock [Manchester] : wksno. 5292 K1 aka K 1 1/2 is reputed to have been assembled from parts of both K1 and K2 prior to returning to the UK. She arrived at Portmadoc in 1966 but she was far too big - and heavy - for the Festiniog. However, she can fit into the Welsh Highland route, although her tractive effort is too small for working regular service trains she has made a number of guest visits. I have had the pleasure of travelling behind her on a few occasions. There had been a number of mechanical & steaming issues which lead to her being put on loan to SBR in 2019, with the agreement being that she would be overhauled, and she was back in steam by 2020. I have a fantasy that she pays a visit to the South Tynedale Railway - hearing her storm up to Alston from Slaggyford would be a wonderful cacophony !

K1 nameplate Tasmanian Railways K1 : 0-4-0 + 0-4-0 Built in 1909 to Garratt's patent by Beyer, Peacock [Manchester] : wksno. 5292 K1 aka K 1 1/2 is reputed to have been assembled from parts of both K1 and K2 prior to returning to the UK. She arrived at Portmadoc in 1966 but she was far too big - and heavy - for the Festiniog. However, she can fit into the Welsh Highland route, although her tractive effort is too small for working regular service trains she has made a number of guest visits. I have had the pleasure of travelling behind her on a few occasions. There had been a number of mechanical & steaming issues which lead to her being put on loan to SBR in 2019, with the agreement being that she would be overhauled, and she was back in steam by 2020. I have a fantasy that she pays a visit to the South Tynedale Railway - hearing her storm up to Alston from Slaggyford would be a wonderful cacophony !

K2 nameplate Tasmanian Railways K1 : 0-4-0 + 0-4-0 Built in 1909 to Garratt's patent by Beyer, Peacock [Manchester] : wksno. 5292 K1 aka K 1 1/2 is reputed to have been assembled from parts of both K1 and K2 prior to returning to the UK. She arrived at Portmadoc in 1966 but she was far too big - and heavy - for the Festiniog. However, she can fit into the Welsh Highland route, although her tractive effort is too small for working regular service trains she has made a number of guest visits. I have had the pleasure of travelling behind her on a few occasions. There had been a number of mechanical & steaming issues which lead to her being put on loan to SBR in 2019, with the agreement being that she would be overhauled, and she was back in steam by 2020. I have a fantasy that she pays a visit to the South Tynedale Railway - hearing her storm up to Alston from Slaggyford would be a wonderful cacophony !

bit of camera shake - shows what I think is the Driver's Side ... Tasmanian Railways K1 : 0-4-0 + 0-4-0 Built in 1909 to Garratt's patent by Beyer, Peacock [Manchester] : wksno. 5292 K1 aka K 1 1/2 is reputed to have been assembled from parts of both K1 and K2 prior to returning to the UK. She arrived at Portmadoc in 1966 but she was far too big - and heavy - for the Festiniog. However, she can fit into the Welsh Highland route, although her tractive effort is too small for working regular service trains she has made a number of guest visits. I have had the pleasure of travelling behind her on a few occasions. There had been a number of mechanical & steaming issues which lead to her being put on loan to SBR in 2019, with the agreement being that she would be overhauled, and she was back in steam by 2020. I have a fantasy that she pays a visit to the South Tynedale Railway - hearing her storm up to Alston from Slaggyford would be a wonderful cacophony !

Headlamp on the leading water tank [flash fired] Tasmanian Railways K1 : 0-4-0 + 0-4-0 Built in 1909 to Garratt's patent by Beyer, Peacock [Manchester] : wksno. 5292 K1 aka K 1 1/2 is reputed to have been assembled from parts of both K1 and K2 prior to returning to the UK. She arrived at Portmadoc in 1966 but she was far too big - and heavy - for the Festiniog. However, she can fit into the Welsh Highland route, although her tractive effort is too small for working regular service trains she has made a number of guest visits. I have had the pleasure of travelling behind her on a few occasions. There had been a number of mechanical & steaming issues which lead to her being put on loan to SBR in 2019, with the agreement being that she would be overhauled, and she was back in steam by 2020. I have a fantasy that she pays a visit to the South Tynedale Railway - hearing her storm up to Alston from Slaggyford would be a wonderful cacophony !

K1 in works grey, in 1909, this articulated locomotive was the prototype of the Garratt K class, built for the Tasmanian Government. I am assuming this is outside Beyer Peacock, Manchester as the grey livery and the plain background is typical of the ex-work's image for record purposes. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasmanian_Government_Railways_K_class an addendum to the wiki - K1 has been successfully steamed and operated in 2020 after her overhaul at Statfold Barn, on a 10 year loan, as she is really too small to pull trains on the WHR by herself. Not my image (but dates from 1909 so I think that it is actually out of copyright.)

Image [scanned ] of K1 taken in April 1966 by T Dorrity. The locomotive was moved to more protected storage by 1967. The sea is a matter of a few feet behind the photographer, and at the time there was no shelter from the on-shore winds and weather. Some of the story of how K1 came to be here, and what has happened since can be found here .. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tasmanian_Government_Railways_K_class addendum - K1 has since been in steam and working at Statfold Barn (in 2020)... I hope that she will make a number of trips back to the FR after the Covid Pandemic, although her dimensions keep her to the WHR. I had a trip behind her & the youngest Garratt a few years ago, the FR portion of that particular special train was behind "the old gent" aka Prince and DLG aka David Lloyd George (the soup dragon). Not my Image : fair use & educational purposes

Porthmadog Harbour Station with Garratt No87 and her train. The first carriage looks tiny because it is to the Ffestiniog loading gauge. Details for 87. Wheel arrangement is 2-6-2+2-6-2, class NGG16 built in 1937 by Cockerill (Seraing, Belgium). Spent most of its working life in South Africa until it was replaced by diesel traction, it was imported to the UK by the Exmoor Steam Centre. Boston Lodge works carried out a major restoration, when she was initially liveried in photographic grey on being finished in 2009. Her livery has been Midnight Blue since a repaint in March 2010. As with all Festiniog / Welsh Highland steam locomotives, she is coal fired.