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From: jis@hocsd.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.railroad
Subject: Re: large fellow
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Date: Sun, 25-Mar-84 16:23:58 EST
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Posted: Sun Mar 25 16:23:58 1984
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>From your description it appears that you are talking of the famous
Beyer-Garrats that are used by SAR and EAR even today. SAR ordered them in
fourteen classes of five wheel arrangements and two gauges. From 1924 to
1968 more than 400 Garrats were built for SAR by nine different European
companies - mostly German. Among the earlier Garrat series and for many
years the most numerous class was the 65 4-6-2+2-6-4 built by Hanomag,
Henschel and Maffei between 1927 and 1928. The one that you described
however, seems to be a later model 4-8-2+2-8-4, probably a GO class.

Incidentally, Garrats had also been used for a short while on the Indian
Railways, in the form of the N class 4-8-2+2-8-4. However, the Garrats
never really caught on in India as they did in Africa.

Jishnu Mukerji
AT&T Information Systems
Holmdel  NJ