100 Years Of Garrats

An Online Video production looking at the UK built Garret locomotives that were widely used abroad. We start the DVD having a look at Liverpool Docks with locomotives being loaded onto a cargo ship for export to Rhodesia. Next are scenes from Spain dating 1975 where redundant locomotives are awaiting scrap. A visit to 3 foot 6 inch gauge line in 1976 just north of Durban, South Africa, Garrets are shown shunting the goods yard. Action then on 2 foot narrow gauge lines at Uzminto and Glenrosa. This is followed by main line action at Port Elizabeth and shunting at the nearby docks. A look around the sheds at Oudtshoorn shows locomotives awaiting next duties as well as Garrets working hard on steep and bendy Montesque Pas on the approach to Oudtshoorn. At Graff Reinet, Garret locomotives are being prepared for duty under the coal loading plant. A visit to De Aar shows locomotives on shed followed by a journey onwards to Kimberley, Beaconsfield and Kraankuil. Next leaving South Africa we see scenes filmed during 1975 in parts of 3 foot 6 inch gauge network of Rhodesia, firstly at Bullamayo. Garrets are first shown shunting the yard plus we get to have a look around the shed where some are awaiting for further duties. Next is Balla where again the locomotives are shown working the yard. We then follow a Garret locomotive working a freight train between Balla and Bullamayo. A visit is made to narrow gauge line of Shumba as well as scenes passing through the national park at Wankie and nearby Wankie Colliery before finishing off with scenes around Victoria Falls.