Re: R766 re-launch (was: [VIC] R766 test run)

["Stuart Thyer" <s.thyer@anatomy.unimelb.edu.au>]

Stuart Thyer
Photographer
University of Melbourne

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In article <3A9F7EE0.1AD7B1C4@ozemail.com.au>, James Brook
<ajmbrook@ozemail.com.au> wrote:


>Stuart Thyer wrote:
>> 
>> Steam loco R766 ran a successful test run last night, Wed 28/2, from
>> Ballarat to Bacchus Marsh and return.
>> It will be relaunched in to service on Sat 11th March when it runs Melbourne
>> to ballarat. For bookings phone 9397 1953
>> 
>  
>While the OzKosh trip is a reasonable idea for a general public tour, I
>don't think it was a good trip to re-launch R766 on. I'm sure that a
>large number of Victorian railfans would like to travel on the first
>trip behind R766 since it's re-build. However, the length of time spent
>in Ballarat is far too long (7 3/4 hours) if you aren't interested in
>the activities at Ballarat (OzKosh or Begonia festival).
>
Actually, a surprising number of railfans are also plane fans, there were
about a dozen of us that went to the airshow at Avalon the other week.

Stuart