C.F.Mozambique Beyer-Garratt Locomotives in Mozambique

Class 911 (Locobase 2922)

Data from A[rthur] E[dward] Durrant, Garratt Locomotives of the World (revised edition) (Newton Abbott, UK: David & Charles, 1981), p.173

These Double Pacifics entered service in the South African Railways systems as class GF (Locobase 765), but 2317, 2419-2420, and 2432 were later sold to the Mozambique Railways as series 911. The CFM fitted the quartet with streamlined tanks leading and trailing the boiler section.

NB: The direct heating surface (including the firebox heating surface) is an estimate calculated by subtracting the calculated tube heating surface from the reported total evaporative heating surface.

Class 951 (Locobase 701)

Data from Gavin Hamilton's excellent compilation of Garratt data posted at [] (6 September 2005). See also John D. Blyth, "Down The Iron Road: Garratts - The Champion Artics - 4" at [] (first viewed July 2002) Works numbers were 2059-2070 in 1951..

Mountain Garratts delivered for Cape-gauge service.

John Blyth reported most of Mozambique's Garratts were hand-me-downs, but this class came new from Haine St Pierre. He notes that they had ".. much in common with the later types in South Africa itself (the GMA/M Classes). They were larger in the boiler, and had an unusual double Kylchap, a feature thought to be unique in Garratt practice." They are also identical to the Katangan Garratts this firm delivered in the following year.

Class 971 (Locobase 702)

Data from Gavin Hamilton's excellent compilation of Garratt data posted at [] (6 September 2005). See also John D. Blyth, "Down The Iron Road: Garratts - The Champion Artics - 4" at [] (first viewed July 2002)/Works numbers 28642-28646 in 1956.

John Blyth reported most of Mozambique's Garratts were hand-me-downs, but this class came new from Henschel. He notes that they had ".. much in common with the later types in South Africa itself (the GMA/M Classes). They were larger in the boiler, and had an unusual double Kylchap, a feature thought to be unique in Garratt practice." They are also identical to the Katangan Garratts this firm delivered in the following year.