Nambour Sugar

[petan@NOSPAMion.com.au (PETer and susAN)]

This is next week. Are these plans still current?

Thanks,
Peter Cokley


In article <3784a6c6@news.powerup.com.au>,
  "canetram59" <canetram59@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Bundaberg Fowler 0-6-2T B/n5 of 1952 will be in Nambour from Monday, 9th
> August up to and including Saturday, 14th August. The locomotive, originally
> from Pleystowe Mill, Mackay and now owned by The Australian Narrow Gauge
> Railway Museum Society will be on loan to the Moreton Mill as part of the
> district's annual Sugar Festival celebrations. The loco will be delivered
> from ANGRMS Woodford museum site on Monday 9th August and then Tuesday
> through to Saturday will be used to haul sugar cane from Howard Street Yard
> up to the mill and return with empties. Probable use will be about every
> hour between 8.0am and 4.0pm. In addition the locomotive should be on
> display on the corner of Currie Street and Howard Street during the Sugar
> Festival procession about midday on Saturday, 14th. This is similar to the
> activities that took place during the mill centenary celebrations in 1997.
> Providing it doesn't rain (as in 1997) the loco should put on a good display
> at regular intervals during each day.
> Hope this helps.
> 
> David Mewes