Welcome to the 16mm Garratt Owners & Operators Association!
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Last updated on Saturday, 29th May 2010
Welcome to the new website of the 16mm Garratt Owners & Operators Association. This website replaces the previous version & should be kept a lot more updated!!
This scene was captured at 'Garratt 50' in 2008 at the Welsh Highland Railway on Dinas station. Mr Shawe was in charge of the K1 & Mr Brittian ran a couple of his 16mm scale Garratts on Ttarrag Shed that weekend.
The association was formed in 2002 to encourage the building, running & operating of Garratt type locomotives in the scale of 16mm to 1 foot.
Since then, many Garratts have been built & run!
On Tuesday 29th December 2009, John Sowerby & Julian Smith made their way to Wales to the Welsh Highland Railway. John was in his usual bouyant mood & decided to ring me from the train whilst i was at work to rub in the fact that they were travelling behind double headed Garratts & i wasn't!!
There was one train that day, departing Caernarfon at
11:00 & returning at 15:15.
The locations of the two photos were Beddgelert Station for the platform shot and from the Caernarfon bound train approaching Bryn-Y-Felin bridge.
(Both photos taken by John Sowerby)
Looking forward to seeing many of you again in 2010, the first show we'll be attending with 'Ttarrag Shed' is the Model Engineering Show at Alexandra Palace on 22nd, 23rd & 24th January.