Re: "Pendennis Castle"

["philippa rogers" <pmrogers@iinet.net.au>]

Further information re: Pendennis Castle from Hamersley Iron's media
release.

'The Pendennis will be shipped to England on the "Toba" via Japan, The
United States and the Panama Canal. Hamersley iron has donated the
locomotive to the Great Western Society, operator of the Didcot Railway
Centre in Oxfordshire, where it will be fully restored to working order.
HI Executive Chairman, Chris Renwick, said 'It is pleasing to know that
Pendennis Castle will return to its original home for restoration so that it
can once more run on the rail lines where it began its working life'.
HI brought Pendennis Castle in 1977 and transported it to Dampier in 1978.
During the loco's life in the Pilbara it was maintained by the Pilbara
Railway Historical Society.
Pendennis Castle last steamed in 1994 and is now incompatible with the
technologically advance HI rail system.
Great Western Society Chairman Graham Perry said 'The return of Pendennis
Castle will warm the hearts of many who were saddened when she left for
Australia, it will be a real homecoming.'

>On behalf of Tim Draper
> ARHS WA
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