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Re: Albury sightings




Forster Family Inc wrote in message <79fu8s$fnj$1@news.wantree.com.au>...
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>Phillip Guppy wrote in message <79du02$91c$1@news1.mpx.com.au>...
>>N426 (City of Shepparton) in charge of a three car passenger train sat on
>>the broad gauge tracks at Albury waiting for the Sydney bound XPT to pass.
>> Boggle!!! the last time I saw N426 was as a youngster when it regularly
>plied its way between Ballarat and Ararat on 43 roadside goods back in
1966!
>Hooray, an 'oily' N is reincarnated!
>Only joking - The City of Shepparton is just a boring 'dogbone' N462
>>Regards
>NMF


Yes, you are all correct. I had the last two digits round the wrong way. My
photographs record the number as N462. I don't know if you can call it a
boring engine as I have not found any working locomotive boring. The only
boring locomtive there was the 82-class and X107 which were sitting idle.