W22 [was Re: Dorrigo 19th Century Treasures]

["Arthur Marsh" <mars0177@flinders.edu.au>]

"John Kerley" <deaftech@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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> Your comment about PB only collecting narrow gauge stuff is not strictly
> correct.  The museum at Menzies Creek was established as a "Steam Museum"
> i.e. the operative word being steam and hence a variety of steam objects
> were collected in the early days, at the same time as every conceivable
bit
> of narrow gaugeanna.  Later on there was an intense debate about whether
> this general steam theme should be continued with most of the museum
workers
> who had put in the hard yakka wanting to keep  the exhibits while the
> railway's leadership wanting to divest some of them.  This resulted in the
W
> class being sent to Pichi Richi on the understanding, if I recall
correctly,
> that restoration be started in 5 years  It would be interesting to know
what
> in fact has happened.  The point here is that the democratically elected
> leadership's view prevailed, even if some of us did not like it. But they
> also have put in the hard yards, they are not outsiders.

I did a quick check of the Pichi Richi web site (http://www.prrps.com.au)
and did find mention of (ex-Silverton) W22 being obtained from PB and being
under restoration. I was almost getting confused with (ex WAGR) W933 and
W934 (-:. I haven't been reading the Pichi Richi Patter from cover to cover
so I can't comment on whether there have been reports of work being done on
W22.

Arthur.

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