Re: Rail Adventures Around Australia

["Chris Stratton" <stratton.chris.cp@nospam.bhp.com.au>]

Trevor Edmonds <tedmonds@tmx.com.au> wrote in message
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> And surely that's reasonable. A locomotive taken out of a playground (eg
> 2535) because it had become delapidated and dangerous must be judged
against
> that background. Bill may have prefered to see 2535 scrapped, but it
wasn't
> his money that was spent saving it.
>
> Trevor
>
>
IIRC 2535 used to be at the BHP Visitor's Centre at Coniston. If so, it
definitely wasn't a park and the loco wasn't in too bad a condition when it
left, BHP just didn't want to pay to maintain it any more.
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Regards,
Chris Stratton
Wollongong, NSW, Australia
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