LMS Garratt 47995

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

I saw a photo of an 00 gauge model of this, and thought it was some sort of freakish April fool's joke.

I was amazed to find photos of the real thing! Surely and IMLEC winner?

I wonder why I haven't come across it before?

Neil

[WorkshopPeteParticipant @workshoppete]

Hi Neil

I have a 00 model of the LNER Garret 2395 it was a kit by a company in Concett called DM models (may have the name wrong not sure) but very impressive in model form the LMS GARRETS ARE COVERED IN Nock's book

" THE BRITISH STEAM RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVE".

As you say a sure IMLEC winner but a lot of work in building it at least there is no tender to build.

Peter

[Neil WyattModerator @neilwyatt]

I've dug around a bit and apparently it was modelled as one of the original Kitmaster series that didn't make it to Airfix and Dapol

Neil

[BazyleParticipant @bazyle]

As it was designed for tractive power rather than efficiency I'm not sure that it would do so well. The same boiler on a pacific would have less bearing friction to contend with and larger pistons would be more efficient.

I'm sure there has been at least one at an ME show in the last 40 years, not just the African narrow gauge ones.

[61962Participant @61962]

Neil.

Jim Nunn of Crawley built a 5" LMS Garrett in the early 70s. I last saw it at Gilling seven or eight years ago. There was a 7 1/4" LNER Garrett at Harrogate last year. Brand new, very impressive and kind of hard to miss. The late Geoff Gregson of Urmston built an East African Garrett in 5" gauge during the eighties whilst he was living near Sunderalnd. It ran in IMLEC a couple of times with Geoff's son Nigel at the controls. Brian Hollingsworth (who wrote LBSC His Life and Locomotives) owned one of two or three African Garretts that appeared in the mid seventies. They were I think 7 1/4" but were very big being of narrow gauge prototypes. I first saw Brian's Mount Kilimanjaro on exhibition at Shildon for the 1975 S&D 150.

The full size LMS Garretts were build for coal haulage to London and were concentrated at Toton I believe. I know they sometimes worked into York in the fifties.

I would be surprised if these were the only model Garretts to run here and I'm sure there will be more information from other members to follow.

Eddie

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