Re: [COMM]: "1999: The Vic Year in Steam" now available

["Stuart Thyer" <s.thyer@anatomy.unimelb.edu.au>]

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In article <8p1p2t09dufuieb5gmojlgg02b3f4itgp5@4ax.com>, Yuri
<steam4me@dingoblue.net.au> wrote:


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>The management at WCR is extremely *PRO-STEAM* (one of the directors
>regularly fires R711) and a super R will be running on the point of
>the Saturday Warrnambool service for the foreseeable future (apart
>from the mainline summer steam ban that's already in force for
>coal-fired locos statewide - if SRV's "Steam and Sail" runs this
>weekend, R711 will be the motive power).

Sorry Yuri, need to correct you, there is a ban on coal burning steam on the
sunshine-bacchus Marsh corridor only due partially to the fact that FA have
yet to carry out fire break clearing on this line.

K 183 is rostered to run on sunday and R761 is rostered to run to Seymour
the following sunday for a charter.


Stuart Thyer
Photographer
University of Melbourne