Re: Pendennis Castle

[James Brook <ajmbrook@ozemail.com.au>]

If all this is true, its about time! It was always out of place in the Pilbara.

Donald R Smith wrote:

> >
> >      The Pendennis Castle heads back to England
> >
> >
> >      The unique British steam locomotive Pendennis Castle is set to return
> >      to England later this year after 22 years in the Pilbara.
> >
> >      Hamersley Iron has decided to donate the locomotive to the Great
> >      Western Society, operator of the Didcot Railway Centre in
> Oxfordshire,
> >      South East England.
> >
> >      Hamersley bought the Pendennis Castle in 1977, for use on excursion
> >      trains on the Hamersley railway.  Its first journey was made in
> >      November 1978, when it carried schoolchildren from 7-mile to the
> >      Dugite railway siding.
> >
> >      In the care of the Pilbara Railways Historical Society (formed by
> >      Hamersley employees), the locomotive powered many runs from Dampier
> to
> >      Tom Price, Paraburdoo and Camp Curlewis.
> >
> >      The locomotive last steamed in October 1994. It is now incompatible
> >      with Hamersley
>
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> ?s rail system.
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>      In returning to England, the Pendennis Castle will be re-united with
>      its old arch rival The Flying Scotsman at Didcot Railway Centre?s
>      millennium celebrations, ?Steam 2000?, in May this year.
>
>      Manager Rail Alan Watling said it was pleasing to know that the
>      Pendennis would return to its natural home for restoration so that it
>      could operate once more.
>
> --
> Donald R Smith
> drsmith@iinet.net.au
> http://www.iinet.net.au/~drsmith/drsmith.html



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