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Locomotive Profile: Victorian Railways "G" Class Narrow Gauge "Garratts in the Otways" Part 3 'A Photographic Profile' (TH-412)

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Product No.: TH-412

Title: Locomotive Profile: Victorian Railways "G" Class Narrow Gauge "Garratts in the Otways" Part 3 'A Photographic Profile'

Author(s): Badaway, Emile & Sargent, John
Illustrator(s): N/A
Publisher: Train Hobby Publications
ISBN: 1876249412

Condition: New

Binding: Softcover
Dust Jacket: No Jacket
Edition: 1st Edition
Publication Year: 2001

Features: 48 Pages with Colour Photos.

The G class Garratt locomotives were built for the Victorian Railways 2' 6" gauge branch lines. These locomotives were introduced in 1926 to increase train sizes and thus reduce losses on these lines. Their tractive effort was comparable to the most powerful branch line locomotives on the Victorian Railways broad gauge, the K class.

The locomotives were allocated numbers G41 and G42. G41 was put to work on the Colac to Beech Forest and Crowes line, while G42 was placed on the Moe to Walhalla railway. The locomotives stayed on these lines, returning to Newport Workshops for heavy repairs. After the closure of the Walhalla line in 1955, G42 was moved west to Colac, where it worked the line in conjunction with G41. At the closure of this line in 1962, only G42 was considered to be in operational condition.