Re: (Vic, Melb) Maribyrnong Siding.

["Rod [comtrain]" <Comtrain@optusnet.com.au>]

When I was a trainee (fireman), and went to Traralgon, I was told that the
mine had many permanent fires, which could not be put out ?? I guess when
the brown coal is exposed, the heat can cause ignition with the oxygen
added.
"Captain Warwick J. Somerville" <marivcru@labyrinth.net.au> wrote in message
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> But the smell remind me of a coal fired streamer, Drydales to Queenscliff.
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