Re: Dorrigo Museum

[Terry Collins <terryc@zip.net.au>]

Chris Stratton wrote:

As I understand it, the Dorrigo collection doesn't actually belong to the
Dorrigo Group, but is the personal property of Keith Jones. Seems people
donated it to him.

either way, it has been the biggest stuff up involving railways in this
country since they started. At least we can change the pollies every so
often. The bun fights that have gone on over Dorrigo are apalling.

I suspect the locals would love to see it all sold as scrap as they been
made so many promises about real soon now for years.

The greatest disappointment was that the SRA did turf the lot of them off
and get someone one who would get something happening.

The bottom group is the Glenreagh something or other.

Either 
> 
> Peter Neeve <P.Neeve@ens.gu.edu.au> wrote in article
> <5ug4cv$am$1@griffin.itc.gu.edu.au>...
> > Just wondering if anyone out there could enlighten me as to current
> > developments regarding the collection of rollingstock at Dorrigo.
> >
> > From what I understand, the collection belongs to a preservation group (I
> 
> > forget the name) but is sitting on land purchased by Keith Jones (?).
> >
> > Is there any word as to what is going to happen to it, as it would seem a
> 
> > terrible shame for it to be broken up as it (IMHO) such a large
> collection
> > and covers so much history, from early steam to diesel.
> >
> > An old guy I know reckoned it was all going to be sold off for scrap to
> Japan
> > when metal prices improve - it sounds like madness to me!
> >
> > TIA.
> >
> > Peter Neeve - No relation to Peter Neve in NSW as far as I know.
> >
> The name of the group is the Dorrigo Steam Railway and Museum Limited and
> the land belongs them, they also have the top half of the Dorrigo line. The
> bottom half of the line belongs to another group based at Glenreagh. I'm
> not a member of either group but I regularly read the newsletter for DSR&M
> and according to the latest issue (dated 11th August) the second last
> payment on the 50 acres of land purchased is actually due today (9/9). I
> don't think that the collection would ever be sold for scrap, as more items
> are still being acquired. 7327 has recently moved to Dorrigo from storage,
> as has Steam Crane 1081 which is currently being reassembled.
> Regards
> --
> Chris Stratton
> stratton.chris.cp@bhp.com.au
> 
> Any opinions are all my own work.

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