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Re: Silly Pendennis Castle ideas

Subject: Re: Silly Pendennis Castle ideas
From: "< Tell >" <telljb@ozemail.com.au>
Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2000 21:02:38 +0930
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References: <3896b104@occy.pnc.com.au> <3897c4c5@occy.pnc.com.au> <878k8f$olu$1@merki.connect.com.au> <C8Rl4.51$i33.547964@news0.optus.net.au> <87afm0$dp4$1@metro.ucc.usyd.edu.au> <38994433.5C1B1E4A@enet21.com.au> <H6dm4.17484$3b6.71987@ozemail.com.au> <87bs13$vr$1@pegasus.csx.cam.ac.uk>

"Thomas Johnson" <tej22@**REMOVE*THIS*BIT**cam.ac.uk>
wrote:
>
> According to this months Railway Magazine:
> 
> "The Australian quarrying company Hamersley Iron has generously decided to
> make a gift of 'Castle' class 4-6-0 Pendennis Castle to the Great Western
> Society
> . . . . . . . . .
> the society has to find the shipping costs of GBP125,000. That's the 'going
> rate' the P&O line has quoted for bringing the loco half way round the world
> from the Indian Ocean port of Dampier."



A quarrying company.!  HI who happened to run the
WORLDS heaviest trains with all head end power.!!!

How quaint.  How positively British.

----Terry Burton

Follow-Ups:
- Re: Silly Pendennis Castle ideas
  - From: Graeme Wall <Graeme@greywall.demon.co.uk>

References:
- 3526 anyone?
  - From: "Darren Yates" <dyates@pnc.com.au>
- Re: 3526 anyone?
  - From: "Darren Yates" <dyates@pnc.com.au>
- Re: 3526 anyone?
  - From: "Rod Gayford" <rjaygee@smartchat.net.au>
- Re: 3526 anyone?
  - From: dbromage@fang.omni.com.au (David Bromage)
- Re: 3526 anyone?
  - From: matthew@mail.usyd.edu.au (Matthew Geier)
- Re: 3526 anyone?
  - From: "chris@enet21.com.au" <chris@enet21.com.au>
- Re: Silly Pendennis Castle ideas
  - From: "Bill McNiven" <wmcniven@gunzel.ozemail.com.au>
- Re: Silly Pendennis Castle ideas
  - From: "Thomas Johnson" <tej22@**REMOVE*THIS*BIT**cam.ac.uk>

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