Garratts & Kalaharis of the Welsh Highland Railway

This book describes the design origins of the WHR’s Garratt and Kalahari locomotives in Britain, Europe and the Southern Hemisphere startng with K1, the Tasmanian Garratt.  Their development is traced together with its culmination in the NG/G16 and the NG15 locomotives.  It continues with an individual history of  each of the Garratts, and the Kalaharis in their original environment and more recently in North Wales.  There are also fold-out scale drawings of the locomotives, including the special features carried only on the first batch of NG15s in 1931.

 The search for information to guide the work of the engineers and fitters at Boston Lodge has led to contact with many in Southern Africa, Australia and the United Kingdom.  Profusely illustrated, the book draws on the photographic collections of friends to show the locomotives in action in both the South Africa and North Wales.

The author, the late David Payling, was a life-long volunteer on the F&WHR, was part of the team at Boston Lodge working over 15 years to assemble the drawings and information to allow the restoration of these locomotives. 

The book, produced in support of the restoration of NG15 No.134, is published by The Ffestiniog Railway Co. This edition was first published in 2022 and hence missed the return of Kalahari No, 134 to traffic in April this year.

152pp, 110+ colour and b/w illustrations, 3 scale drawings, one foldout. Hardback