Re: WAGR Tank Engines

["David & Jan Winter" <winterdspamtrap@nospam-icenet.com.au>]

HVR is better resourced in many respects for tourist rail operation, and as
the effective host operation of the Pinjarra Rail Heritage Centre with over
$1m of Fed money. The suburban tank would AFAIK be too heavy for Dwellingup
and have too short a range for most of HVR's "mainline" runs. ARHS have a
number of resource problems, not least funding the public liability
insurance premiums necessary to be an operator these days. HVR's focus is
commercially viable tourist rail operation with enough heritage fleet to
create an appropriate atmosphere to suit its market. The SAR (South Africa)
carriages are an illustration of a practical approach cf a purist heritage
preservation approach. The ARHS is constituted to present and, perhaps to a
slightly lesser degree, preserve history.

DW

John Wayman wrote in message ...
>Is it normal practice to abandon preserved locos in this way?
>
>I thought preservation was more civilised in WA where the Hotham Valley
>Railway seems to set a good example.
>
>Cheers
>John Wayman
>
>Forster Family Inc <noelmel@wantree.com.au> wrote in message
>news:7gdgq5$apd$1@centipede.wantree.com.au...
>> John Wayman certainly started something here. The ARHS ran Dd592 for 10
>> years culminating in its last run on August 4 1995 from Midland to
>> Mooliabeenie (1st crossing loop past Gin Gin on Midland line) and return.
>> Unfortunately the boiler certificate had expired by then and on arrival
>back
>> at Midland one of the axles scoured and it limped back to Forrestfield
>(the
>> old Westrail loco depot) where it has been ever since.
>> However Clyde Engineering ( the new tennants) would like to see the "Dead
>> Duck" out of there so we will have to look at the axle to prepare it to
>come
>> back to the ARHS Museum at Bassendean.
>> It was a terrific loco which typified the class serving the commuters of
>> Perth back in the days. We used it on City Circle trips and it ventured
in
>> to the country on many occasions. A particularly memorable trip was
double
>> heading with A1506 to Calingiri (on the Miling branch) in 1990 with 12
>cars.
>> Dd596 is also preserved under cover at the Gosnells Railway Markets in
the
>> Perth southern suburbs.
>> Regards
>> Noel Forster
>>
>>
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