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This page illustrates examples of articulated steam
locomotives - click here for the introduction to
Garratt locomotives.
Ethiopia
When the country was taken over by Italy, the railway ordered six 2-8-2 + 2-8-2 Garratts from Ansaldo in 1939, but only three actually arrived and were put into use after the Second World War. They had a very short working life and only 503 (out of use) remained intact at the time of Charles Small's
visit.
Kenya
The Kenya Uganda Railway and its successor bodies were
heavy users of the Garratt locomotive and there is a representative
collection in the Nairobi Railway Museum - unofficial website http://www.greywall.demon.co.uk/rail/Kenya/nrm.html,
(link broken by December 2021) being representatives of classes 55, 57, 59 and 60.
This is Terry Bagworth's picture of 5711 on Nairobi shed on
15th January 1971, it lasted another two years before being withdrawn for
preservation.
This is 5505 on 17th November 1979, it has recently been
repainted in EAR maroon - this is KUR grey:
The next two pictures of 5930 and 6006 were taken by
Graham Roberts in
2004 after they had received a much needed repainting:
Pride and joy of the preserved Garratts, however, is
restored 5918 which has made occasional sorties in recent years although
it is currently sidelined following privatisation of Kenya Railways. Chris
Lewis was on a 2005 safari:
Sudan
Sudan had a very brief flirtation with Garratts, its
ten 4-6-4 + 4-6-4 locomotives supplied before World War 2 were rapidly
sold on after it to Rhodesia where they became the 17th class. In turn
they were sold to Mocambique some fifteen years later becoming 921 -
930, although in this case their operating area was not greatly
unchanged.
Basil Roberts photographed one of them outside the
shed at Beira in August 1968 and 921 on a passenger train between Beira
and Gondola in July 1969, these images are taken from our CD-ROM
Safari Steam.
Tanzania
There are no confirmed sightings of surviving Garratts
here (just rumours). Here are some delicious memories from the Basil
Roberts' collection, all taken in 1967/8 and all from our CD-ROM
Safari Steam. The 52 class 4-8-2 + 2-8-4 pre-Second World War Garratts were unusually built by North British. 5204 was the last survivor and was photographed on the triangle at Morogoro in 1967 en route to Dar for scrapping
The 53 class 4-8-2 + 2-8-4 Beyer Peacock Garratts were contemporaries of the 52 class, the former built for the Kenya-Uganda section, the latter for Tanzania. Despite its apparently good condition, 5302 in the yard at Dar had been out of use for some time.
5605 preparing to depart from the docks area in
Dar.
6012 is at Moshi in Tanzania with a train for across the border to Voi in Kenya. Behind is Africa's highest mountain, Mount Kilimanjaro.
Uganda
All the remaining steam locomotives were scrapped around
2000. Hence we have to rely on Cliff Schoff's classic picture of 5813 on a
Kampala to Nairobi train taking water at Kampala in February 1967. This
also appears on our CD-ROM
Safari Steam.
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