Re: North Australia Railway remembered.
Chris Stratton (stratton.chris.cp@bhp.com.au)
1 Jul 1997 22:02:05 GMT
Poddy <awilson@zeta.org.au> wrote in article <33B9EB3B.6521@zeta.org.au>...
> Terry Burton wrote:
>
> >
> > 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.
> >
>
> What became of the locomotives that were used on the railway? I visited
> Darwin in January, and was able to find some remnants of the line (the
> Daly St bridge, and that level crossing just on the city side of Goyder
> Rd, for example) but I couldn't see any locos anywhere, abandoned or
> otherwise... Just curious what became of them.
>
> Poddy
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The locos were all transferred to other narrow gauge operations in SA,
namely Eyre Peninsula, Gladstone - Wilmington, Peterborough - Ororoo and
the CAR. AFAIK the NSUs never went to the EP but I had seen NTs at Port
Lincoln and on the Wilmington line. Some of the NSUs were left at Marree
for a long time after the CAR closed, I don't know if they are still there.
When I was at Port Augusta in 1984 there was a line of NSUs and NTs behind
the workshops. There were still NTs at Port Lincoln in 1985. I assume the
ones that are preserved have all been scrapped by now.
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