Re: Silly Pendennis Castle ideas

[Graeme Wall <Graeme@greywall.demon.co.uk>]

In message <ei2o9ss4qgl2sklrap5gllrm3mfbjvr4dp@4ax.com>
          "< Tell >" <telljb@ozemail.com.au> wrote:

> "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 'goi> > ng
> > 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.
> 
You mean they are not a quarrying company?  What do they do then just run
iron ore trains for the hell of it?

How quaint.  How positively Australian.
-- 
Graeme Wall
Cynicism is disillusioned idealism