>telljb@ozemail.com.au (Terry Burton) writes:
>> Twenty One Years ago today the last Scheduled Train on
>> the NAR hauled by NT's 69 & 74 arrived in Darwin from
>> Larrimah on June 30th 1976, ending a chapter in
>> Australian Narrow Gauge Railway History which was
>> unique.
[snip]
>Despite the crap recently published in the same magazine in which I had a long
>letter published and a book by an "expert" there still seems to be a gross lack
>of understanding re the NT's.
> For the last time, I hope, three NTs 69, 73, and 74, worked port lincoln until
>late 1989.They were cut up (74 went first in October 1989 after she broke her
>crank July 30 1987;nearly ten years ago!) and 69 and 73 got the chop in August
>1990. They had worked their last shunts 10/6/88 and 21/9/88 respectively..
>The other NTs were scrapped at Port augusta, though I have a feeling 67 was cut
>up insitu at Gladstone.
>Thus, they were not all transfered to Plo as apparently implied in a recent
>modelling magazine, nor are they "in store" as per a recent book and Oz
>locomotives.
>Regards
>Nic
Hi Nic
Yep....... the Commonwealth Railways, Australian
National Railways and Australian National with their
isolated operations were always "Sunday too far away".
This was part of the reason that so much inaccurate
information has been published.
Cheers
---- Tell
Alice Springs NT
CR-ANR-AN ...Almost gone but not forgotten.
Australian Pioneers of the Long Heavy Haul.