THE NZR GARRATT STORY

THE NZR GARRATT STORY
THE NZR GARRATT STORY
THE NZR GARRATT STORY
THE NZR GARRATT STORY
THE NZR GARRATT STORY
THE NZR GARRATT STORY
THE NZR GARRATT STORY
THE NZR GARRATT STORY
THE NZR GARRATT STORY
THE NZR GARRATT STORY
THE NZR GARRATT STORY
THE NZR GARRATT STORY
THE NZR GARRATT STORY
THE NZR GARRATT STORY
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Title: THE NZR GARRATT STORY
Author(s): MCCLARE, E.J.
ISBN: 0908573057
Category: Trains / Trams / Rail
New / Used: Used
Book Type: Medium Hardcover with Dust Jacket
Published: 1978
Published By: The NZ Railway and Loco Society
Edition: 1st edition
Pages: 100
Size (mm): 185 w x 245 h x 10 d

Condition

Immaculate, near new with only light shelf wear on dust jacket.

About

Signed by the author.

Describes the introduction of three Garratt locomotives to New Zealand in 1929 with great fanfare and their subsequent failure in the North Island trunk line work for which they were planned (due to several technical issues which could have been solved), and the rise of the NZR K Class.

Also included in the book is an outline of the many proposals in the 1920s for other designs of Garratt locomotives, such as for work on the 1 in 15 Rimutaka Incline.

The final chapter surveys the life and work of the 'G' class 4/6/2 type locos into which the engine units from the ill-fated Garratts were incorporated in 1937.

Includes monochrome images, maps, schematic diagrams.

Remarks

Scarce in this condition and signed
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