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27: 36: 793: 526: 568:, of which 47 were delivered in 1952. Of these, 42 were delivered fully assembled while the last five were delivered in pieces as spare parts. The locomotive weighed 260 imperial tons and was the largest locomotive in the Southern Hemisphere. The last of the AD60 class entered service in 1956 and the last one was withdrawn from service in 1973. 263:
Double Mountain was likely the optimal Garratt wheel arrangement, with the four-wheeled leading bogies and the two-wheeled trailing trucks on each engine unit ensuring stability at speed and with sixteen coupled wheels for traction. More coupled wheels would inhibit the locomotive on tight curves,
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Kenya Uganda Railway (KUR). The thirty locomotives of the class were constructed in three batches in 1939, 1940 and 1949. These engines later became classes 57 and 58 on the
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while the only advantage of more non-coupled wheels, such as on the Double Northern, was to reduce the axle loading.
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suspended between the two engine units. Each engine unit has two pairs of
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The Garratt Locomotive - Garratt Locomotives produced by Beyer, Peacock
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One of the East African Railways locomotives survives, no. 87
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Four of the New South Wales AD60 class have been preserved.
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The Garratt Locomotive - Surviving Garratt Locomotives
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in a leading bogie, followed by four coupled pairs of
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NSWGR AD60 Garratt no. 6012 tops the grade at Cowan.
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Diagram of two small leading wheels, four large driving wheels joined by a coupling rod, four small trailing wheels, four large driving wheels joined by a coupling rod, and two small leading wheels

KUR EC3 class
UIC class
French class
Turkish class
Swiss class
KUR EC3 class
Kenya-Uganda Railway
Beyer, Peacock & Company
4-8-2+2-8-4
Whyte notation
steam locomotives
wheel arrangement
4-8-4+4-8-4
Garratt locomotive
4-8-4
boiler
cab
leading wheels
driving wheels
trailing wheels
4-8-4+4-8-4
Beyer, Peacock & Company
4-8-2+2-8-4
1,000 mm
EC3
Beyer, Peacock & Company
4 ft 8+12 in
New South Wales Government Railways

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