Re: Tassie Garret & Penndennis Castle

[John Dennis <jdennis@mpx.com.au>]

Whilst I tend to agree with you regarding the little garratt, simply
seeing it running is much better that seeing it stuffed and mounted in
the NRM at York.  Or rusting away somewhere.

The South African garratts were purchased for the (rebuilding) Welsh
Highland Railway, which is a tourist railway.  Not designed to be an
absolute museum line with high heritage values like our own Puffing
Billy (which incidentally also has a SA Garratt, a Queensland DH class
and a Tasmanian V class).

If, in ten years time, the South Africans want these locos back, I
would probably agree with them.  Especially if they are not operating,
in need of restoration, and never likely to run again in their current
home.  Like Pendennis Castle.  Of course, that is almost certainly not
going to be the case.

JD

On Mon, 07 Feb 2000 23:26:16 +1100, "chris@enet21.com.au"
<chris@enet21.com.au> wrote:

>The poms don't worry much about Australian heritage just look what they
>did to the Tassie garret (conversion to oil burning). And is running
>South African locos in Wales part of pommy history? It has as much
>historical significance as the Penndennis running in Australia.
>
>http://www.bangor.ac.uk/ml/whr/k1.htm
>
>Imagine the outcry  if the same thing  was done to the Pendennis
>Castle,  maybe conversion to a garret as well?
>
>Chris

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