Several re-furbished and in operation. As part of the ACR's strategy to keep the narrow gauge railway competitive, two of its Class NG G16 Garratt locomotives were rebuilt using technology similar to that used by mechanical engineer David Wardale in the creation of the Class 26 Red Devil in 1980, based on developments pioneered by Argentinian engineer L.D. [2], When the four Natal narrow gauge systems were closed down by the SAR, the Weenen and Mid-Illovo lines were lifted, but the Harding line was privatised as the Alfred County Railway (ACR), operating out of Port Shepstone. [3] Many more steam locomotives were added to the system, through to the 1950s. Numbers 1 and 2: 2-6-0/0-6-2 Beyer Peacock Garratt acquired new in 1936/38. Under construction at Boston Lodge. Running numbers 99 5901-3 and 99 5906 are in working order. In February 2018, local newspapers and news websites reported that General Electric company, USA won the tender for 10 diesel electric locomotives for the use of upcountry railways. [4], On the South African Railways (SAR) narrow gauge lines, that solution was found in 1914 when orders were placed with Beyer, Peacock and Company for a narrow-gauge Garratt locomotive. [9] Only ten (of 25 originally ordered) were built before the order was cancelled, the last delivered in September 1949. Finished in U.K. Pullman Car Company livery. Sold to the Puffing Billy Railway by ACR shareholder Peter Newton in 1996. Scrapped by the THF at Humewood Road, Port Elizabeth, South Africa August 2011. We still hope for this engine to be preserved in railway museums, but there is a chance to make a new built of the class. No 23 returned to FR service in 1955 and full doors fitted in 1966. Although less obvious, both Wardale GPCS locomotives, Class 19D no. When fleets of such locomotives appeared in the middle 1920s the trade press called them "Simple Mallets" i.e., simple locomotives articulated like Mallets. The following locomotives are normally Ffestiniog Railway stock that have run on the WHR. "Union Pacific Big Boy", an example of a simple Mallet. This page was last edited on 21 April 2022, at 19:32. Purchased in 2014 from Exmoor Steam Railway by Steam Powered Services and currently owned by Peter Best. When they were designated Class NG G16, the "NG/G13" was altered to "NG/G16" by milling out the 3 and riveting on a 6, as shown. [9][10][11], Since withdrawal from SAR service, some locomotives were sold to foreign railways and into private hands and restored to operational condition, while others ended up in various degrees of preservation ranging across the spectrum from running order to staging to total abandonment. The locomotive has a Gardner 8LW diesel engine de-rated to 132hp. Only Garratt to do so. [4] [14] In terms of a prior agreement between the SAR and the Tsumeb Copper Corporation, the SAR would purchase any narrow gauge locomotives that would become redundant should the re-gauging of the SWA system take place. A development of carriages 2043, 2044 and 2045. [1], Ejector pump efficiency depends on the length-to-diameter ratio of the exhaust chimney. In the Dutch East Indies, now the Republic of Indonesia, several types and sizes remained in use into the 1980s. [13] and included one locomotive experimentally converted to electric traction. Funded by WHR Society. The exhaust steam from these cylinders was fed into a low-pressure receiver and was then sent to low-pressure cylinders that powered the driving wheels on the swiveling bogie towards the front of locomotive. After retirement at the mine, it was preserved at the Museum of Man and Science in Johannesburg in 1974, then moved to the Klein Jukskei Motor Museum by 1981 and finally donated to the South African National Railway And Steam Museum (SANRASM). While West Africa found its solution in larger 4-6-2 Pacific and 2-8-2 Mikado locomotives at the beginning of the twentieth century, the steeper gradients and tighter curves in South Africa made a different solution necessary. No. Narrow gauge locomotives like the Class NG G16, on the other hand, have plenty of height available for the exhaust, so a single long chimney was achievable. Scrapped at Paddock, South Africa October 2017. The rebuilding incorporated a gas producing combustion system (GPCS), Lempor exhausts, an improved spark arrester, lightweight multi-ring articulated piston valves, improved valve events and improved mechanical lubrication. Unlike other diesels purchased by the Ffestiniog Railway Company and named bilingually after Northern Welsh castles, 'Castell Caernarfon' is named in Welsh only. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. No. Garratts may not be nearly as big as Big Boys, Yellowstones, Alleghenys, etc. The Australian Standard Garratt (ASG) was a Garratt steam locomotive designed in Australia during World War II, and used on 3 ft 6 in (1,067 mm) narrow gauge railway systems in Queensland, South Australia, Western Australia and Tasmania. Notable locomotives was the last remaining Australian Standard Garratt and the narrow gauge Clyde-GM G-8 numbered D1. Sixteen "Beyer-Garratt" locomotives of the 4-8-0 + 0-8-4 type are in service on the 5 ft. 6 in. Some are the locomotives owned by Sri Lanka Ports Authority and Holcim Sri Lanka limited. [4], A powerful steam locomotive is problematic on a track gauge of only 2 feet (610 millimetres) with a tight minimum radius of about 150 feet (46 metres) which, in practice, restricts powerful rigid-frame locomotives to four-coupled wheels, often with at least one flangeless coupled wheelset. Built at Boston Lodge. [1][8], The rebuilding was done by mechanical engineer Phil Girdlestone, who was employed as Chief Mechanical Engineer of the ACR primarily for this purpose. In January 2014, Big Boy #4014 was removed from its museum ground parking track in Pomona, California, and hauled to Cheyenne, Wyoming, for restoration to operating condition; this was completed in May 2019. Electrification has been proposed, to improve energy efficiency and sustainability.[9]. Their engine numbers, builders, years built and works numbers are listed in Table II. Commenced service on the Puffing Billy Railway in December 2019 before being withdrawn again for further work. In 1962, the Indonesian state railways DKA ordered a series of 0-4-4-2s, basically an updated version of the earlier Dutch design, for the old Atjeh (now Aceh) tramway. Back in operation as of February 2020. [2][3][11], Of the first three locomotives, only no. The run to Devil's Bridge was part of testing at the narrow-gauge railway, which runs for 11 34 miles whilst visiting 9 stations and halts. Converted from 2041, completed 2017. The Harding line was privatised in 1988 as the Alfred County Railway (ACR), operating out of Port Shepstone. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Directory of UK railways, large links page and articles on worldwide narrow gage railroads ex South African Railways Beyer Peacock Garratt at Waunfawr NG/G16 127 the last steam locomotive to operate on the Alfred County Railway in South Africa is currently stored as delivered in 2011 inside the new Museum at Menzies Creek awaiting a decision date on its rebuilding to operate on 2'6" gauge. Entered service in 1997 in unlined dark green, then malachite green as of 2002 when it was named, withdrawn in late 2007 and stripped for 10 year boiler inspection. Porta. Steam under pressure is converted into mechanical energy more efficiently if it is used in a compound engine; in such an engine steam from a boiler is used in high-pressure (HP) cylinders and then under reduced pressure in a second set of cylinders. The following locomotives are normally Ffestiniog Railway stock that have run on the WHR. One class P1 locomotive was at Viharamahadevi (Victoria) Amusement Park[14], S1S8 Diesel Hydraulic Multiple Units, S9S14, S14A Diesel Electric & Electro-Diesel Multiple Units. It is currently in active service, and a spare boiler is being overhauled for it ahead of a planned overhaul in 2021/22. (Under licence to Beyer Peacock & Co. - Manchester, England), Entered service as "400". [1][2], The Beyer, Peacock locomotives ordered by the SAR, numbers NG109 to NG116 and NG125 to NG131, were shared more or less equally between the Natal and Langkloof lines. Ordered by Sri Lanka Veneers & Plywood. - last, Entered service as "407". In contrast to the rest of the Indonesian railways it has a gauge of 750mm (2ft5+12in), as to 1,067mm (3ft6in) for the rest of the Archipelago. [, Overturned near Cutana on "Broken Hill Express". [2], On the Avontuur Railway, these locomotives were used as tank-and-tender Garratts, but when the Langkloof members of the class were transferred to Natal in 1964, the water tenders were dispensed with since watering points were much closer together in Natal as a consequence of the early use of tank engines on those narrow-gauge branches. [2] Since then, various types of diesel locomotives were added to the service. The front of the locomotive articulated on a bogie.The compound steam system fed steam at boiler pressure to high-pressure cylinders driving the rear set of driving wheels (rigidly connected to the boiler). [1] In 1953, Sri Lanka Railways enhanced its service to more power with diesel locomotives. By 1892 110 Mallets were at work, of which 24 were standard gauge; by 1900 there were nearly 400, of which 218 were on standard gauge or Russian gauge (1,520mm (.mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .den{vertical-align:sub}.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px}4ft11+2732in)). A number of Mallets were constructed for the Nordhausen Wernigerode Eisenbahn, now part of the Harz Narrow Gauge Railways system in Germany. [1], When the four narrow gauge branchline systems in Natal were closed down by the SAR, the Weenen and Mid-Illovo lines were torn up. NG55 entering Ixopo station, 3 September 2005. His patent 162876 in France specified four cylinders, two large and two small, with one pair of cylinders acting on two or three fixed axles, and the other pair acting on axles mounted in a swivelling truck.[3]. Note piston valves on high-pressure cylinders and slide valves on low-pressure cylinders. Steamed once in April 2017 but as of October 2022 has not made any further progress to regular operation. Operational after being overhauled in 2020. Used also on civil engineering rosters. [1][5], Unlike tender locomotives, Garratts are bi-directional, which eliminates the need for turntables or triangles, also known as wyes. Produced in the CPR's Angus shops, road numbers 1950 to 1954 were outshopped between 1909 and 1911. Typical for many locomotives is a livery that has thick horizontal bands of dark blue, light blue, silver and a yellow stripe. Imported in two variants, one for run on commuter services and other run on long distance services. Built by Societe Franco-Belge builders No.2974, Beyer Peacock builders No.7623. Also common for many locomotives is a livery of horizontal bands of green, brown, and a yellow stripe. [10] The 1309 was also the last steam locomotive that Baldwin built for the North American market. Steam locomotives were numbered from 1 upwards, reaching 161 in 1911. Another 2 WDG4D locomotives are to be arrived. Arrived ex ship "Belnor". Both entered service in Natal. These were used in helper service in the Rockies and Selkirks. Beyer, Peacock and Company was only able to deliver the first three locomotives in 1919 after cessation of hostilities. NG87 and Beyer, Peacock-built numbers NG130, NG138 and NG143, are used for operational purposes. Superheating also required alteration of the valve gear and piston valves were therefore used instead of slide valves. Their in-house compound 0-6-6-0 design located both the high and low pressure cylinders adjacent to one another in the center of the locomotive driving opposite directions. NG153. [3], The London and North Western Railway locomotive engineer F W Webb adopted the idea and converted some existing locomotives in 1879, followed by de Glehn and others in the 1880s and several American engineers in the 1890s which included some vertical boiler railcar applications. Constructed by Nippon Sharyo in Japan, they were the only Mallets built in Asia. A development of the Winson Engineering carriages delivered in 1997, including wider door opening for easier access to passengers with reduced mobility. In 2004 the locomotive was purchased by a member of the Lynton & Barnstaple Trust, who shipped it from Australia in 2005. This has been supplemented by later information as it became available. Power cars are single-ended locomotives without passenger interiors. The last Garratt built by. Re-entered service in October 2022 after overhaul and the fitting of a Hunslet built boiler shipped from Australia ex 129. [2][4], These pre-war locomotives, like the earlier Class NG G13 locomotives, were built with riveted coal and water bunkers and with elliptical tops on the water tanks. It was to become the first Garratt to enter SAR service. AL 0.400 - 110 hp is now at Paton County Narrow Gauge Railway . After several years on light duties a new engine was fitted in October 1999. Class of South African 26-2+2-6-2 Garratt locomotives, South African Railways and Harbours Locomotive Diagram Book, 2'0" & 3'6" Gauge Steam Locomotives, 15 August 1941, as amended, Rebuilt Garratt undertakes its first Australian run, SATS / Transnet NG/G16 Garratt Fleet Disposal, Stars of Sandstone, Official Operating Programme for 12th - 21st April 2014. [, Entered service as "404". 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