Central of Peru Beyer-Garratt Locomotives in Peru

Class 122 (Locobase 708)

Data from Gavin Hamilton's excellent compilation of Garratt data posted at [] (6 September 2005); and "Central Railway of Peru-Design 1157", Beyer-Garrrat Patent Articulated Locomotives (Manchester, England: Beyer-Peacock & Company Limited, 1931), archived on flickr's Historical Railway Images at [], et seq, p. 68 . See also " Locomotoras Garrat del FC Central", posted 5 January 2011 on the Trenes del Per blog, last accessed 8

[] . Works numbrs were 6626-6628 in 1930 and 6731 in 1931.

Double Mikado Garratts. Unlike most Beyer-Peacock Garratts, these engines had round-top fireboxes.

The trenes del Peru blog entry briefly described the engines, but noted that they were too big for much of the line and never traveled past Casapalca. But Beyer, Peacock's 1931 survey supplied the details of the operating environment and the design. The report claimed that the first three were giving "excellent results".

The FC Central's locomotive superintendent claimed that a Garratt had "hauled successfully 850 tons from [the port of] Callao to Lima, 700 tons from Lima to Chosica (3,000 ft/914 meters), and 400 tons to Matucana (7,840 ft/2,280 metres)." He claimed coal consumption hauling the maximum loads was lower than any other engine. "The boiler gives a full head of steam at all times with the maximum load", the LS added in an observation made by other Garratt operators, "and steam perfectly freely."

Sometime after the FC Central renumbered the quartet 400-403, it sold the 401 and 403 to Peru's FC del Sur.