Whilst sorting out old photos I came across some I took in Georgia (Former Soviet Union) in 1995. This prompted me to look into the history of two LKM narrow gauge locomotives and to find out why they were in Georgia and if there were any more that I hadn’t seen. Both locomotives belonged to class Gr (Cyrillic: Гр short for Германская репарация or German reparation). About four hundred and twenty of these mainly 750mm gauge 0-8-0 locomotives were built at the Karl Marx Locomotive Plant (formerly Orenstein and Koppel) in Babelsberg between 1947 and 1956 and were delivered to the Soviet Union as part of German war reparations after WWII. They were powerful machines, but their driving
