Re: Passenger Trains on Wharves

["keith malcolm" <kmalcolm@tpg.com.au>]

That would have been FP13.

Dave Malcolm

Barry Campbell <campblbm@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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> Barry Campbell wrote in message ...
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> >And also such unlikely places as Menindee, Lismore and  Grafton in NSW.
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> <snip -as much as I like it was my post anyway>
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> Sorry to reply to my own post but I am in all powerful mode tonite.
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> Of course the oddest train meeting ship occurrence was at Coffs Harbour
> where the jetty railway was run by the Maritime Services Board which was a
> sort of prehistoric port authority. A specially tarted up paybus was sent
to
> meet the Britannia to transport Madge* and her husband to their car for a
> visit to the area. I can't remember which royal visit it was but it was
the
> new series of FP built in the late 60s. Maybe 1970 for the first bison
> thing.
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> Barry Campbell
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> * Her majesty. Old jungle saying.
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