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Re: BRISBANE LIGHT RAIL / TRAMS
- To: ausrail@railpage.org.au
- Subject: Re: BRISBANE LIGHT RAIL / TRAMS
- From: David McLoughlin <davemcl@-DROP-iprolink.co.nz>
- Date: Tue, 02 Dec 1997 20:16:22 +1200
- Newsgroups: aus.rail
- Organization: Totally disorganised and proud of it
- References: <347944CD.5AC104A2@merddyn.apana.org.au> <347A850D.B50@NMIT.EDU.VIC.AU> <347A4D60.EF87E137@merddyn.apana.org.au> <347CEAAE.759F@NMIT.EDU.VIC.AU> <347BE6C1.B6E76BD8@merddyn.apana.org.au> <347DE7D4.69AC@-DROP-iprolink.co.nz> <347E6649.B80EFFF5@merddyn.apana.org.au> <347F68DA.4DFD@-DROP-iprolink.co.nz> <3483943F.B300556B@merddyn.apana.org.au>
garry wrote:
>
> You can be forgiven for not knowing most of this David, for much of it
> has come out of the BCC Transport Department archives, which I rescued
> from the 1974 flood, restored and which the BTMS looked after till
> this year. After 23 years of not wanting to know about us holding all
> their records (some actually up to the day before flood) they suddenly
> decided they wanted them back. Actually later when they demolished
> Milton Workshops, we were given all the drawings and plans from
> upstairs. Embarassed Council officers had to ask us for some back a
> couple of days later. Inadvertantly they had even given us all the
> current drawings of the buses still in use, plus the new workshops
> underconstructionat Toowong!
I am pleased you saved the archives. What I was talking about, and have
always talked about, is what actually happened, not what might have been.
David McLoughlin
Auckland New Zealand