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Re: BL onto the FAT track

To: ausrail@railpage.org.au
Subject: Re: BL onto the FAT track
From: "Chris Brownbill" <cbrnbill@enternet.com.au>
Date: 30 May 1998 00:41:05 GMT
Newsgroups: aus.rail
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References: <3566bb37.33440046@news.netconnect.com.au> <895932662.513925@woody.hotkey.net.au> <6k84mh$cgv$1@gruvel.une.edu.au> <01bd8a11$eaa682a0$3a2e11cb@rodsmith>



Roderick Smith <rodsmith@werple.net.au> wrote in article
<01bd8a11$eaa682a0$3a2e11cb@rodsmith>...
> CR came lower down too:
> A shunting loco (class DH?) was named (F J O'Shea?).
> -- 
> Regards
> Roderick Smith
> Rail News Victoria Editor
> 
> David Bromage <dbromage@metz.une.edu.au> wrote in article 
> > It was CR/ANR tradition to name locomotives, usually the class leader,
> > after serving Prime Ministers, or if that PM already had a named loco
> > after the current Minister for Transport.


Very appropriate - we've had a few Prime ministers and Transport Ministers
who really were DHs - and I dont mean diesel-hydraulic.

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