War Department Beyer-Garratt Locomotives in Kenya

Class WD Heavy-Metre/EC4/54 (Locobase 511)

Data from Gavin Hamilton's excellent compilation of Garratt data posted at [] (6 September 2005); and "'54' Class Locomotive" East African Railways and Harbours Magazine, Volume 2, No. 9 (June 1956), p. 22. 9 class", East African Railways and Harbours Magazine, Volume 2, No 3 (June 1955), p. 89. See also Archie Morrow in the [], visited November 2002). Works numbers were 7075-7081 in 1944.

Double Mountain Garratts for the War Department that operated on the Kenya Uganda Rly as class EC4 (Class 54). EAR&H's account said that the engines were based on the 2-8-2+2-8-2 Colonial Double Mikado Garratts, but modified to "suit East African conditions".

Archie Morrow, a transplanted Irish engine driver, commented about the class: "They were an extremely powerful engine ...but were lightly built, needing a lot of maintenance and could not stand up to being pooled. They were allocated to Nakuru in 1960 to work heavy freight between there and Eldoret and were given regular drivers. Mine was No.5402 and, after getting some lubrication problems sorted out, we were a dream team."