C.F.Madgascar Beyer-Garratt Locomotives in Madagascar

Class 50.801 (Locobase 699)

Data from Wiener (1930); A[rthur] E[dward] Durrant, Garratt Locomotives of the World (revised edition) (Newton Abbott, UK: David & Charles, 1981), pp 110-112; and Gavin Hamilton's compilation of Garratt data posted at [] (6 September 2005) has slightly different value -- 258 sq ft -- for the superheater. Note the unusual diameter for the flues given in Wiener. Works numbers were 2031-2032 in 1926.

Fuel in these Double Mogul Garratts was 353 cu ft of wood. Durrant noted this pair was the lasrgest and most powerful locomotives to run on Madagascar. Although laid out like most Garratts on plate frames with four simple-expansion cylinders and Belpaire fireboxes, the dssign offered some variations. The builder placed the steam pipe outside on the boiler to feed the superheater, then led the hotter steam output to the cylinders through outside pipes on the smokebox. Its wood fuel required a broad diamont staick that, Durrant wrote, made these engines :one of the few Garratt classes to sport such a 'Wild West" appurtenance."

Delivered as 101-102, reclassed later.