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Re: Echuca Loco Restoration

Subject: Re: Echuca Loco Restoration
From: James Brook <ajmbrook@ozemail.com.au>
Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2000 15:25:18 +1000
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I may be wrong about this, but I thought it was under restoration at the
moment.

David Bromage wrote:
> 
> Ed (ews3@nospicedham.ozemail.com.au) wrote:
> > Are there any plans to restore A2 996  which is at Echuca wharf?
> 
> Yes. The boiler is in reasonable condition, and there is considerable
> local expertise in restoring and maintaining steam engines (I mean engine
> in the generic sense). Interestingly, one of the local paddle steamers has
> a Phoenix Foundry boiler.
> 
> There was some talk of WCR doing the mechanical restoration.
> 
> Cheers
> David

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- James Brook -

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