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Re: Strategic Reserve.
- Subject: Re: Strategic Reserve.
- From: "Alistair Deayton" <Alistair@deayton.freeserve.co.uk>
- Date: Wed, 1 Sep 1999 22:40:27 +0100
- Newsgroups: alt.railroad,aus.rail,misc.transport.rail.americas,misc.transport.rail.australia-nz,misc.transport.rail.europe
- Organization: Customer of Planet Online
- References: <37c92cfe.0@news1> <7qceeo$25hu$1@otis.netspace.net.au> <7qjpc0$853$1@news7.svr.pol.co.uk>
> > When I joined the (Government owned) V.R. back in 1964, some of the old
> > Drivers told stories about Strategic Reserves of steam locos stored away
> > some where in Victoria.
>
> But the VR had a strategic reserve, a good bit of it is an open air museum
> of rusting locos at some place whose name I have forgotten about 20 km
west
> of Keuruu, about 50km west of Jyväskylä.
>
Just to clarify, VR here is Finnish Railways,NOT Victorian Railways.
Alistair