Re: "Pendennis Castle"

[dbromage@fang.omni.com.au (David Bromage)]

[uk.railway added]

philippa rogers (pmrogers@iinet.net.au) won a Nobel Prize for literature by writing:
> 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,

Without letting anybody else even make an offer for it.

> 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.

Inference 1: "We could let it run if we wanted to, but we just don't."
Inference 2: Railtrack is not as technologically advanced as HI!

Cheers
David