At this point, whenever I see locomotive I am unfamiliar with, be it the Class 37s, 55s, 58s, 59 and 66s, Garratts, you name it, I think "I bet Rory has a video about it" and more often than not, one of your high quality documentaries is waiting for me. The same goes for most airliners, and the automotive content is a great bonus, always having something new to be learned. Many thanks for these great videos.
@drstevenrey5 сағат бұрын
This is one seriously impressive piece of kit. What a beast.
@briancooper562Күн бұрын
Another detail found in Australia was to get max. tractions the water tanks had to be as full as possible as the weight of the boiler section was shared between the two drive units. On a long and steep hill traction would reduce as the water was consumed. Also a reason South African Garratts had to pull water tank wagons to enable journeys to be completed, due to traction, water consumption and the dry terrain restricting water supply.
@kisarabanuja32542 күн бұрын
Just to let you know, the Big boy and most Garratts were NOT mallets. They all had the same cylinder size in each set of driving wheels.
@JonAschenbrennerКүн бұрын
The Southern Pacific's Cab Forwards like 4274 and 4294 were called "Mountain Mallets." That and the Virginian Railroad's AE 2-10-10-2 Double Decapods were Mallets.
@davidwhiting1761Күн бұрын
In the case of the Cab Forwards that's more of a local name rather than a literal name. Cab Forwards were simple articulateds, not "true" mallets. People often group all articulated locomotives as mallets simply because mallet locomotives were the first articulated locomotives. Mallets use compounding, and thus have different sized front and rear cylinders, the rear cylinders being smaller as they use fresh steam and the front cylinders being much bigger to make use of "spent" steam. "Simple" articulated locos use fresh steam in all cylinders and thus have all cylinders sized the same. Back to your example, while the Cab Forwards are not true mallets despite the locals calling them "Mountain Mallets", the Virginian locos were indeed true mallets with larger cylinders in front and smaller cylinders behind.
@cheyvengeance5432Күн бұрын
Only 1 standard gauge Garratt that ran in Britain survives and that’s William Francis (ExNCB) currently sat at Bressingham in Norfolk, she might even become yet again the only working standard gauge garratt in Britain
@AndrewBell-c2tКүн бұрын
currently sitting…. Not currently sat….
@johnjephcote76362 күн бұрын
My father used to take me to watch them at Napsbury by the Radlett airfield, (there was still a station there) and I am certain I saw my last one tucked away in the loco yard at Cricklewood. This would all be in the 1950s.
@DKS225Күн бұрын
With The NSW Garratts in the form of The AD60 Class though they were introduced from 1952 to 1956 it wasn't until 1966 that approval was granted to double-head them. They were in service until the 24th of February 1973 but on the mainlines it was December 1972 that the last of the 260 ton giants were withdrawn. One of the most spectacular sights of the steam ere in NSW was two AD 60's hauling 1200 tons of coal from Newstan Colliery up the 2kms of 1 in 40 of Fassifern Bank. Though they had to reverse until just south of Fassifern Station to get a decent enough run up Fassifern Bank.
@stephendavies69492 күн бұрын
Excellent video. Didn't the NCB have a Garrett or two? I'm sure I saw one at Bressingham Museum.
@TheHoveHeretic2 күн бұрын
You most certainly did see one there. "William Francis" was built by Beyer Peacock (Works No. 6841) for Baddesley Colliery in 1937.
@johnjephcote76362 күн бұрын
The first Garratt in GB is illustrated in the Railway Magazine p232 Vol LIV Jan-Jun 1924. Beyer, Peacock & Co. for Vivian & Sons, Ltd., Swansea; the Hafod Copper Mine with gradient 1 in 20 and max curvature of 97ft radius. Perhaps that standard gauge 0-4-0 - 0-4-0 is the one that still survives.
@stephendavies69492 күн бұрын
@@TheHoveHeretic Aha, not a false memory! Thanks for confirming.
@TheHoveHeretic2 күн бұрын
@@johnjephcote7636Had to look thst one up. Preserved British Steam has no listing for the loco, so unfortunately, that particular one seems like a goner. Shame, as being an early example of the breed, it looked like an effective direct ancestor of suriving 0-4-0+0-4-0 William Francis
@1951GL2 күн бұрын
Derby drawing office had a lot to answer for!
@slenut2 күн бұрын
I believe the first ever garratt, built for here in Tasmania, now back in UK had issues with cylinders under cab floor
@TheHoveHeretic2 күн бұрын
For all the restoration skills of the Mighty Blodge, K1 was and remains very much a working prototype, with all the inherent design foibles that implies. Ask anyone who's worked on this amazing survivor.
@RobertGracie2 күн бұрын
I know where there is a Garratt steam train in the Bulawayo Railway Museum number 600 that is a 16th Class Garratt train its a beast!
@TheHoveHeretic2 күн бұрын
Beyer Peacock has the hand of this loco design malarky in general .... and Garratts in particular. Things only tended to go wrong when railways' CMEs (and random busybodies like Anderson) stuck their oar in. Compare the LMS Garratts to the SAR GL, or the NZGR G Class to the EAR Class 59 or the SNCFA (Algerian) 231-132 BT machines to ..... (sorry, I'm out of comparisons as those machines were heading for the later Bulleid Leader's territory!)
@Dave_Sisson2 күн бұрын
Well not quite an end to Garratts in Britain. The Welsh Highland Railway rebuilt the first ever Garratt that originally operated in a similar climate in western Tasmania. They also use some of the last Garratts ever built sourced from South Africa.
@TheTrainMaster152 күн бұрын
I wish it was back in Tassie. Would be fun to see on the West Coast Wilderness Railway
@Dave_Sisson2 күн бұрын
@@TheTrainMaster15 Wrong track width (or gauge). The line it worked out of Zeehan was 2 foot gauge, the West Coast Wilderness Railway is 3 and a half feet wide.
@TheTrainMaster152 күн бұрын
@@Dave_Sisson totally forgot it’s not cape gauge. Had the Australian standard garratt stuck in the back of my mind lol
@TheHoveHeretic2 күн бұрын
No NGG16A though .... yet. C'mon, Dinas, fingers out!
@lukegreen53412 күн бұрын
4:01 Awesome Storytelling About The LNER And LMS Garratt Class Steam Locomotives. Thanks Ruairdh MacVeigh Buddy Amigo Dude Mate. XXxxx 🇬🇧🏴🇦🇺🇺🇸🚂
@gregorylenton8200Күн бұрын
WOW WHAT A BEAST
@roberthuron91602 күн бұрын
The Welsh Highland and Festiniog have Garretts running in service,daily! All ex-SAR 2foot guage NG classes! Plus they have Vacuum brakes,on their equipment! Pity,that interwar,the Grouping railways,did not put continuous brakes on freight rolling stock! That is also the Government's stupidity for wanting a war,without preparing,an upgrade in transport! Finance short sightedness,and profit before reality! Thank you 😇 😊!
@obelic712 күн бұрын
Outside of Europe especialy in Africa Garret typelocomotives were very succesfull. In Europe the type was very rare. Sofar i know only the UK and the Netherlands (1 unit LTM 51 )had them. Belgium had that lets build an overkill quadraplex engine just for fun!
@retrogamelover2012Күн бұрын
I think one of them was used on a tramway, that unfortunately was scrapped due to it being moved to Germany in the 1930s.
@obelic7122 сағат бұрын
@@retrogamelover2012 yes that one was first sold to a industrial complex in Germany in 1937 and scrapped in the 1950's . It was the only garret build by Hanomag/Henschell that had normal gauge and operated in Europe. All others were narrow gauges and exported to former German colonies in Africa.
@retrogamelover201220 сағат бұрын
@obelic71 Still a pity that it never got preserved.
@obelic7110 сағат бұрын
@@retrogamelover2012 lots of important things were scrapped in the decade after WWII. They just needed the materials to rebuild wartorn Europe. And yes in hindsight view they scrapped an unique locomotive.
@retrogamelover20128 сағат бұрын
@obelic71 Yeah, I'm aware of how much of a toll the 2nd world war took on its nations. Just take the UK, for instance.
@kevinrayner5812Күн бұрын
Didn't Spain operate Garratts I seem to remember?
@AnnaHenson-g5d2 күн бұрын
Your videos always bring me tons of fun and positivity! Thank you for your unrivaled geony and wit!🤘🏈🌘
@TheMr.MenShowDillydale2 күн бұрын
PLEASE PUT THE ORIGINAL VIDEOS ONTO THE PLAYLIST PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!! AND UNLIST THOSE ORIGINAL VIDEOS INSTEAD OF PRIVATE THEM!