Re: [VIC] Derelict steam loco at Ballarat

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

I think its a D3.

james_shugg@my-deja.com wrote:
> 
> In 1994, I stayed with friends in Ballarat.  I went for a walk along
> the railway line, past the sidings where a Melbourne Hitachi set was
> stabled (that was a surprise!), past an abandoned signal box (but you
> could still climb up into it and pull the levers), across a road
> crossing, past a grain shed with rail tractor parked outside, then a
> little further long, discovered a derelict steam loco parked on a
> siding.  Can't have been more than a half a kilometre on the Adelaide
> side of Ballarat station.  IIRC, it was minus its tender, and many key
> fittings, but I think it had 3 driving axles.  Can't recall the
> colour.  Is it still there?  What class/number was it?  Who owns the
> poor beast?  I was amazed that in the mid 1990s you could still find
> old locos like that just "lying around".
> 
> James
> 
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> Before you buy.

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- James Brook -

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