(Junction with the North East Dundas Tramway to Montezuma and Williamsford on the southern slopes of Mount Read the first railway in the world to have a working Garratt steam engine - K-1.)
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The railway was also one of the more successful users of the notorious war-time Australian Standard Garratts ASG, during the 1960s.
One had the honour of having the first Garratt steam engine designed and built for its operations.
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One of the engravings by Valentine Green, shows election of a Mayor of Garratt (1781) in front of the Leather Bottle.
Garratt transferred to the Argentine Central Railway in 1889, where he became Locomotive Superintendent in 1892, and between 1900 and 1906 he worked for railways in Cuba, Lagos, and Lima (Peru).
It was unveiled by the Very Rev. Henry Wace, D.D., the Dean of Canterbury, on Wednesday December 16, 1903, in the presence of the deputy-Mayor, the M.P. Sir William Brampton Gurdon, K.C.M.G., the Rev Canon Samuel Garratt and many others, including a deputation from the Bury St Edmund's Martyr's Memorial Committee.
Garratt is the President and Founder of Vancouver-based digital marketing agency Idea Rebel.
After several line up changes since reforming, the group line-up settled as Robert Lloyd (vocals), Alan Apperley (guitar), ex-Pram drummer Daren Garratt, "teenage guitar sensation" Matt Wood, and Stephen 'The Night' Lowe (bass).