Re: Victorian closing dates that I have.

["M.B. and C.M.McDonald" <michael.and.colleen.mcdonald@xtra.co.nz>]

Reminds of a story about Derek Cross, a well-known railway photographer, who
wanted a good shot of a mixed train leaving Karangahake Station and heading
for the Karangahake tunnel.  Since trains hardly ever stopped at Karangahake
and he wanted a good "dramatic" shot of the train struggling up the grade,
he consigned a chicken from Paeroa South to Karangahake!  He got his shot of
the train, and the local farmer got his chicken back.  A chicken (or was it
a pigeon?) would be much easier to carry in a car than a sheep!

Cheers
Mike McDonald

David Bromage wrote in message ...
>Gavin Potter (gavpot@ozemail.com.au) wrote:
>> Waubra Junction - Waubra
>>     Line closed beyond Mileage 81 Mls., 50 Chs., 15 Lks., on 31/01/1968
>>     Last train ran 31/01/1968
>
>There's a story I heard about this line, but nobody has ever been able to
>confirm it. The story goes that VR announced the official last goods would
>run on a certain date, but that an extra would run the following week if
>there was any livestock offering. A group of railfans supposedly drove to
>Ballarat, bought a sheep and consigned it to Waubra.
>