Re: Tassie Garret & Penndennis Castle

["chris@enet21.com.au" <chris@enet21.com.au>]

Would you then like to see NSW  locomotive number 1 or 18 running? If it was
it would have to be totally rebuilt with modern parts  therefore losing its
historical significance. All the WHR salvaged was basically the power units
and frame to rebuild into a new loco. Thus the tassie garret has lost a lot
of its historical significance. A very cheap way of building a new garret
for the WHR. Some things (ie one of a kind) are best left in original
condition even if it means static.
The reason why the Pendennis Castle is not running is the ban imposed on it
by Rio Tinto.



Chris

John Dennis wrote:

> 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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