Re: Learning to drive steam loco's

["Ross Parker" <rparker@erggroup.com>]

Peter Ware <pwware@ozemail.com.au> wrote in message
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> Garry Hoddinett wrote:
> > Stewart Hughes <muffman@one.net.au> wrote in message
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> > > Is there anywhere in Australia that will teach me to drive a steam
loco (for a price?)
> > I believe that the South Gippsland Railway run weekend courses to teach
you
> > to how to drive a steam engine.
> >
> > One of Western Australia's tourist  railways may also run a similar
course.
> Pemberton Tramway/Steam Railway at Pemberton south of Perth run courses on
both
> steam and diesel between Easter and November.

And the Bennett Brook Railway at Whiteman Park in Perth's North-Eastern
outer suberbs offers steam drivers experience courses on their 2' gauge
stuff (ex. South African and Queensland sugar cane stuff mostly). Or at
least they did 2-3 years ago when I did it, and my father-in-law a few
months later - great fun!

Ross Parker.