Australia's Largest Steam Locomotive - Beyer-Garratt '6029' - In Bathurst
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- Опубліковано 2 жов 2024
- The weekend of the 11-13th of June 2022, the Beyer-Garratt '6029' went on a journey to Bathurst, NSW. This is a collection of shots I took whilst seeing the locomotive itself in Bathurst over the long weekend. Enjoy!
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The fact that there's one of these sitting in a field rotting away is unreal
An Australian Big Boy. Strange looking beast, indeed.
Thanks...I would love to see 6029 in South Australia.
sadly no. Apparently there is something in the firebox that is "not correct" or some such, and thus the loco isn't allowed to run in SA. Stupid and bullshit really, but you get that unfortunately
I first saw a Garret as a boy, at Enfield in Sydney in 1973 and I was absolutely in awe of it's size and layout. I saw it again many times at Thirlmere over the years, but I never thought I would see it running. I travelled 6 hours to Thirlmere in 2015 to see it running at last. I was still in awe of it's size 42 yrs later. It still overshadows everything and looks powerful standing still.👍
I can only imagine how nice it wouldve been to see one of these beautiful locomotives in its heyday. I have never been in such awe of anything like it, i completely agree it overshadows everything!
❤Thank you awesome wonderful workshop information Garratt congratulations pictures.
16/8 22 Whistle sound same as UK A4 Gresley Pacific. Turntables must have been huge. UK railways had these in early 1900's limited in their application where tight curves were involved. South Africa had them too. Ideal for heavy freight.
Garratt locos are bi-frontal in essence, so they have no need to use turntables
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Hell fire locos just playing with those coaches!
This is my new favorite steam engine
Nice video mate. What a beautiful locomotive.
The garratt was incredible. I need to go see more steam locos in action more often
I can remember seeing those locomotives while in service when I visited relatives in Adelaide in the late 50's. Brings back many good memories. Thank you for posting.
Yes, I think the S.A. Ones were narrow gauge, correct me if I am wrong. They were still magnificent locomotives!
@@jamescrawford9883 Yes the Beyer Peacock 400 class are 3'6'' and carried ore from Broken Hill to Port Pirie. There's one at the Nat Rail Museum at Port Adelaide and one at Lithgow Zig Zag, both static
Great footage. thank you so much for sharing.
Im glad you enjoyed!
Now this has some impact, doesn't it? Nice filming has shown of this beast to good effect.
Thank you! Its an iron beast for sure
What a beast! Just amazing
Its an absolute beast of a locomotive!
Crazy monster! No wonder it has a mechanical stoker; I imagine in its working days it had quite a voracious appetite for coal.
It probably runs on oil now judging by the oil tanker behind it, but back in the day in the UK we had two of these that ran coal and didn’t have mechanical stokers, the fireman used to have to shovel constantly at max speed to keep it fed on on hills it would use up nearly all its steam as the fireman just couldn’t shovel fast enough, they consumed vast amounts of coal. But they were very powerful.
@@justanotheryoutubechannel She's a coal burner, the tank car was carrying water (clean water in large volumes is few and far between on Australian railways now).
Why was it going backwards at the end ?
Classsy 🤍 tonish ♥️ rools 2 good Sydney ro Melbourne rools ♥️
Impressive loco . Nicely done 👍🇬🇧
Thank you! Its an impressive goliath
Go on ya legend!