Steaming to Strauss - Roundhouse Engineering Darjeeling 'D' Class Garratt

Watch as our wonderful Roundhouse Engineering Darjeeling ‘D’ Class Garratt steams around our garden railway for the first time this year. Our live steam locomotive is fitted with a superb Summerlands SCRH7- FX Chuffer which we have set to 'fully open' to give a spectacular plume of steam for the video. The 'fireman' has also let the safety valve open to provide the maximum show of steam for filming. The raw video has been slowed down by 50% using Final Cut Pro X with the Optical Flow effect turned on. The music is The Blue Danube Waltz by Johann Strauss II and taken from RUclips copyright free audio files.
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Background: The Darjeeling 'D' class Garratt was built by Beyer Peacock & Co Ltd. at their Manchester works, the Garratt locomotive was delivered to the Darjeeling Himalayan Railway in 1911 and was put into service on the 30th of June. It was assigned by the DHR as Class 'D' and given the running number 31. The locomotive was thought to have carried the name ˜Highland Chief' for a short period in the 1920s and was regularly seen working between Tindharia and Darjeeling. It finally earned its keep on the extension lines hauling loads of 200 tons, and was eventually scrapped in 1954.
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Technical specifications for the Darjeeling "D" Class Garratt.
Internal gas firing using our new FG2 type burner.
Outside framed 0-4-0+0-4-0 chassis with four double acting slide valve cylinders operated by simplified Walschaerts valve gear.
Water top-up system and water gauge.
Controls fitted as standard are: - steam regulator, safety valve, pressure gauge, displacement lubricator, gas regulator and reversing gear.
Glazed cab windows.
Dimensions (loading gauge) are, Length 532mm over buffers, Width 116mm, Height 170mm.
The wheels are adjustable between 32mm and 45mm gauge.
Full 2.4GHz radio control for both regulator and reversing valve gear.
Fitted with insulated wheels as standard.
Available in any standard ROUNDHOUSE colour.
This model requires a minimum track radius of 2' 6" (760mm).
Please note that this model is not available with manual control.