Re: Tassie Garret & Penndennis Castle

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

I suspect all these critics are expat poms or ones who are more Birtish than
British.(do you hold dual citizenship?)
Have you ever volunteered to work with a preserved rail group?
Has Rio ever offered it a major museum in Australia?
I recall that when CSR disposed of it's steam fleet, it placed advertisements in
all the major papers around Australia calling for expressions of interest form
suitable groups.
The legal action is the main reason why Rio is getting rid of it. I reckon  North
Limited would instantly take the matter back to court if it was even shunted on to
the main line.
And finally I can't see any calls from the UK to return the garret (what's left of
it) back to Australia or anything else. It seems to me that some people on this
newsgroup think that the poms can do no wrong, using your logic I am looking
forward to your crusade to return  Tassie garret.

Regards

Chris

Bob wrote:

> Wrong! Pendennis Castle was out of service from 1994 and as they only had 3
> members in the group caring for it they could not fix it. I should also point
> out that all the restoration cost had been met by Hamersley prior to then. Why
> don't you just give it away. You are flogging a dead horse here and adding lots
> of incorrect statements along the way. I agree with Bill McNiven's comments
> about armchair steam enthusiasts. Have you ever spent all your spare weekends
> working on dirty old steam locomotives? If not, talk to those who do, it's no
> fun, only lots of hard work just to keep people like you happy.
> Bob
>
> "chris@enet21.com.au" wrote:
>
> >
> > 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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