Re: NSW steam loco boilers

["gm4201" <gm4201@bigpond.com>]

"Chris" <chrisc@fl.net.au> wrote in message 39e6cc51@fl.net.au">news:39e6cc51@fl.net.au...
> Someone mentioned that there are some 36 class boilers at Auburn hospital.
> (any other hospitals have locomotive boilers in NSW?) I think there are 3
at
> Redfern. With so many 36 boiler spares around plus other bits and pieces,
> I'm supprised that there was only one going 36. Or is 3642 operational
now?
> There is one spare 38 boiler, the one off 3813, though I don't know what
> condition it is in.
>
> Chris
>
Not really spare because, as you say, it belongs to 3813. It had 2 large
holes cut in it during the restoration of 3801, supposedly for some sort of
investigation.
Regards,
Chris.