RE: [NSW-Tas] Cooperation within the rail preservation movement

[James Shugg <jshugg@MailAndNews.com>]

>===== Original Message From eclaire@iinet.REMOVE.net.au (Ross Parker) =====

>
>So is there something happening (or has something happened) with
>regard to restoration of the rack railway at Queenstown? I remember
>Scott McGregor mentioning there was talk of it during the Tassie
>section of his "Railway Journeys Around Australia" a few years ago....


Very much so.

See http://www.tased.edu.au/tasonline/railtas/pres/abt2.htm  for a photo of 
the new depot in Queenstown. Track relaying continues, one of the Abt stean 
locos is back up and running, with another on the way, and one of the 
original 
Vulcan-Drewry diesels is already back on the West Coast and helping with the 
construction work.

The project hasn't escaped difficulties, including a derailment and several 
equipment failures, as well the the usual criticisms about the extent of 
public funding. Also, some heritage aspects of the new line appear to have 
suffered given commercial priorities.

(I hasten to add, this is not first hand knowledge, just stuff I have picked 
up via the press and web!)

James

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