Re:NTs & N A R remembered.

Nic Doncaster (nldoncas@cobweb.com.au)
1 Jul 1997 01:44:49 GMT

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.
>
> Cheers
>
> ----Tell
> Alice Springs NT
>
And it wasn't that long ago (although only for two weeks) that the NAR was
recreated on the SAR, Port Lincoln Division.

Off the top of my head 69 and 73 ran for two weeks on the gypsum traffic in 1985
as a trial.

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