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Nairobi Motive Power Depots |
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Nairobi Steam Shed |
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| The approaches to Nairobi from Mombasa. The raised tracks were a favourite photo location where many an EAR&H locomotive posed for a publicity photograph. But by the mid seventies it was a dismal sight for the steam enthusiast with over a dozen boilers from once mighty maroon giants littering the approaches to the steam shed. A new diesel depot had been built at Makadara. The narrow metre gauge track is very evident. The loading gauge however was in excess of British Railways standard gauge. - PHOTO Anthony Potterton | |
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| Nairobi Shed from the Mombasa line - left to right are 60 Class, two 59 Class, a 31 Class, a 59 Class and another 60 Class - PHOTO Anthony Potterton | |
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| 59 Class 5912 Oldeani with its unique smoke deflectors - PHOTO Anthony Potterton | |
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Two large 59 Class Garratts with 5905 Mount Muhavuru dominating this 1975 shot. - PHOTOs Anthony Potterton |
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| Garratt 4-8-2+2-8-4 5912 Mount Oldeani is flanked by two unidentified 4-8-4T 13 Class tank engines. When supplied in 1953 the 13 Class were 4-8-2Ts and when the side tanks were later extended, the wheel arrangement was changed to 4-8-2. | |
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| From left to right - 29 Class, 31 Class, 59 Class and a diesel - PHOTO Anthony Potterton | |
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| Nairobi Shed in the lengthening shadows of the rapidly setting sun. A 13 Class 4-8-4T with a 31 Class and two 11 Class tank engines in the background - PHOTO Anthony Potterton | |
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A dirty Tribal 31 Class, 3133 Lango with a very clean 29 behind - PHOTO Anthony Potterton |
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| 13 Class 1316 takes water - a 30 Class is in the background | |
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13 Class tank engine 1315 with 11 Class tank engine 1105 refuelling at Nairobi MPD - PHOTO Anthony Potterton |
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13 Class 1308 with a green liveried diesel in 1975 - a 59 Class can just be seen in the shed (left). (right) - PHOTOs Anthony Potterton |
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Unidentified 59 Class approaching the signals at the Mombasa end of the Nairobi MPD (Motive Power Depot) PHOTO Anthony Potterton |
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| A 13 Class tank engine with a 59 Class (left); freshly out-shopped unidentified 31 Class (right) - PHOTOs Anthony Potterton | |
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2-8-2 Tribal 29 Class 2911 Giriyama (left); 2-8-4 31 Class, 3130 Karamojong (right) - PHOTOs Anthony Potterton |
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59 Class 5904 Mount Elgon (centre) on shed with 3144 Tharaka. The rear tank of another 59 Class has been grounded. - PHOTO - Anthony Potterton |
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Nairobi Shed (left) with 59 Class flanked by a 60 Class to the left and a 58 Class to the right. By 1962 these engines formed the most powerful class of steam locomotives remaining anywhere in the world. 5811 in the shed some years later (right) - PHOTOs - left Malcolm McCrow - right Kevin Patience. |
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Garratts at Nairobi in the late evening sun - my last visit to Nairobi - October 1962.57 Class (above left) and 52 Class (above right) - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow |
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11 Class Tank and 31 Class in Nairobi MPD (left). 59 Class 5902 Ruwenzori Mountains (right). - PHOTOs Malcolm McCrow |
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A once mighty 59 Class scrapping at Nairobi (left). The low cab roof distinguishes 57 Class 5711 from a 58 Class (right). PHOTOs - Kevin Patience |
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90 Class alongside 29 Class in 1962 (left) - before the Diesel Depot at Makadira was built. (right) 9003 photographed by Kevin Patience. |
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| PHOTOs from EAR&H Magazines (courtesy of the late Sir James Farquahar) | |
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Inside the workshops at Nairobi (left) - a 252 ton 59 Class is re-assembled. Another 59 Class on the traverser at Nairobi - the longest one in Africa at 240 ft long and 100 ft wide (right). |
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Photographs of 59s from an EAR&H Magazine - for some unknown reason the number of the loco on the right has been obscured. PHOTOs EAR&H Magazine |
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Two EAR&H publicity photographs showing Giesel ejector fitted 60 Class Sir Harold MacMichael and conventional 59 Class number 5905 Mount Muhavura - both photographs taken at Nairobi motive power depot. PHOTOs EAR&H Magazine |
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A new 90 Class (left) - still in its undercoat - is re-united with its bogies at the then new MPD at Makadara, 5 miles from Nairobi. Makadara Motive Power Depot (right) with the unmistakable silhouette of the Ngong Hills in the centre left of the photograph. PHOTOs EAR&H Magazine |
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| The Mombasa end of Nairobi's Platform 3 with a shunter positioning cabooses. Freight trains carried two crews and the non driving crew was accommodated in the caboose. The two cabooses above contrast with the modified caboose finished in passenger livery (see below) and used by inspectors and other senior officials either on special trains or attached to freights. PHOTO Anthony Potterton | |
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A senior locomotive Inspector (George Gillilandin) on the steps of a special caboose used to travel around the system. George was also involved with the Nairobi Railway School. Note the passenger train livery. PHOTO - Rosemary Barrett EAR&H Staff Photos |
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