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Garratt at the South Arbury Railway
Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 10:09 pm
by garratt100
Here is a Ceylon Government Railways C1 garratt spending a few minutes laying over before it's next turn of duty at the South Arbury Railway.
Chris.
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Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 1:10 am
by ACLR
im going to have to stop reading these post as
I WANT I WANT IWANT
Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 1:46 am
by grumpfuttock
I am sorry to say I am not normally a Garratt fan, they are impressive I admit, but the one above really grabs me, it's beautiful !
Posted: Fri Oct 26, 2007 9:21 pm
by Maesffordd-paul
Nice loco' Chris, is that a scratchbuilt one or RTR?
Paul.S
Posted: Sun Oct 28, 2007 5:52 pm
by steamyjim
Thats a beutiful loco!
Is it roundhouse cylinders??
Posted: Wed Oct 31, 2007 10:11 pm
by garratt100
It's the first of a small batch built by Peter Angus.
The cylinders & running gear are from Roundhouse & apart from new frames it's virtually a 'Billy' chassis which forms the basis of each engine unit.
It's a beautiful runner - look out for it on 'Ttarrag Shed' or at the South Arbury Railway!
Chris.
Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 4:37 pm
by steamyjim
Roundhouse boiler?
Or did i hear he built them using Cheddar Valley Steam boilers?
Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 6:08 pm
by garratt100
steamyjim wrote:Roundhouse boiler?
Or did i hear he built them using Cheddar Valley Steam boilers?
Yes, these have Chedder boilers.
Chris.
Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 6:11 pm
by steamyjim
How much would one of thos Garrats he makes cost?
Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 7:20 pm
by garratt100
steamyjim wrote:How much would one of thos Garrats he makes cost?
Garratts?? Between £3500 & £4000, but worth every penny...
Chris.
Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 8:50 pm
by steamyjim
Bloody hell!!!!! Out of my price range!
Posted: Thu Nov 01, 2007 9:34 pm
by garratt100
steamyjim wrote:Bloody hell!!!!! Out of my price range!
Well, we are talking about the Rolls Royve of Garratts here!!
Chris.
Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 7:23 am
by steamyjim
Aye, true.
Who makes the coal fired NGG16s?
Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 7:31 am
by garratt100
steamyjim wrote:Aye, true.
Who makes the coal fired NGG16s?
John Brittain - get your order in now, there's about a 4 year waiting list...
Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 1:18 pm
by Chris Cairns
Very nice model Garratt there Chris. Unfortunately like Jim well out of my price range.
I've been fortunate to find Garratts in steam on my overseas steam photographic tours, and whilst I still have not got my SCSI card removed from my dead computer in order to scan my slides, here's a couple taken with my basic digital camera.
Class 15 No.271, one of the Garratts specially painted blue for the Royal Train in Rhodesia in the 1950s. Now plinthed at Kadoma, Zimbabwe (see here to see how badly the colour has faded -
http://www.geoffs-trains.com/Museum/kadoma.html ).
And the Royal Headboard.
Class 16A No.611 on the turntable at Bulawayo, Zimbabwe in June 2007.
Enjoy!
Chris Cairns.
Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 5:02 pm
by steamyjim
How much is a John Britton one?
Posted: Sat Nov 03, 2007 11:52 pm
by garratt100
Very nice photos Chris!
A John Brittain Garratt James? Between £4000 & £5000...
Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2007 12:11 am
by SillyBilly
garratt100 wrote:Very nice photos Chris!
A John Brittain Garratt James? Between £4000 & £5000...
Coal Fired? That's quite reasonable really!
Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2007 6:16 pm
by steamyjim
Aye thats a very good price, considering the Accucraft gas-fired one was £3,500
Posted: Sun Nov 04, 2007 7:36 pm
by garratt100
steamyjim wrote:Aye thats a very good price, considering the Accucraft gas-fired one was £3,500
There is no comparison, the Accucraft one may look very nice (although for scale, it's too wide!), but the quality & performance of one of John's is far superior.
So many of the Accucraft NGG16's have been dogged with silly little problems from the start which should never be the case when buying a new loco, especially for that sort of money!!
Don't get me wrong, there are a quantity of good Accucraft NGG16's out there & we've had an excellent runner (John Sowerby's) appear regularly on 'Ttarrag Shed' & also at South Arbury, but we've also had some...er... not so good runners...
It'll be interesting when parts start to wear, how easily replacement parts will be to obtain...
Chris.