Re: [VIC] Derelict steam loco at Ballarat

["Ed" <ews3@ozemail.com.au>]

The engine in question is D3 608, formerly in a park in Stawell.
The engine is now stored at the old East Ballarat roundhouse site, together
with 3 other ex-park D3's!
I photographed 608 at Easter; it had recently had a coat of paint.
Regards
Ed

James Brook <ajmbrook@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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> 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
> >
> > Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
> > Before you buy.
>
> --
> - James Brook -
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