The Garrett Stationary Engine

The Garrett Stationary Engine

There are times when the Sandstone Heritage Collection turns up an item that was placed in storage many years ago and inadvertently forgotten! Recently a visitor to Sandstone was being shown around the shed containing our unrestored 2ft gauge locomotives and rolling stock when they came across an open  “B” wagon containing a large amount of machinery, some large, and some small, but obviously one machine.

A later visit to the main steam shed and the wagon shed next door revealed a boiler which was certainly not from a locomotive. On one of the sections was the name Garrett and not a misspelling of Garratt as in the locomotive type!

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