Re: S317 Ownership

["Grahame Ferguson" <grahamef@users.mcmedia.com.au>]

I wrote in message ...
>S317 was originally allocated to the Seymour Railway Heritage Centre in,
then a
>decision was made that it should be sold by public tender.
>Great Northern Railway won the tender.  So S317 was removed from the SRHC
>depot by Great Northern Railway sandwiched between 3x T class as S317 did
>not have brakes.
>S317 does not have any traction motors or generator.  It had also thrown a
>piston.
>

To reiterate:- S317 is now owned by GNR, NOT Freight Victoria. Whether it
will be spare parts or rebuilt, is to be determined by GNR.

It was originally moved to Seymour in Dec 98.