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Re: Strategic Reserve.

Subject: Re: Strategic Reserve.
From: "Alistair Deayton" <Alistair@deayton.freeserve.co.uk>
Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 22:40:27 +0100
Newsgroups: alt.railroad, aus.rail, misc.transport.rail.americas, misc.transport.rail.australia-nz, misc.transport.rail.europe
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> > When I joined the (Government owned) V.R. back in 1964, some of the old
> > Drivers told stories about Strategic Reserves of steam locos stored away
> > some where in Victoria.
>
> But the VR had a strategic reserve, a good bit of it is an open air museum
> of rusting locos at some place whose name I have forgotten about 20 km
west
> of Keuruu, about 50km west of Jyväskylä.
>
Just to clarify, VR here is Finnish Railways,NOT Victorian Railways.

Alistair

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