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Re: Strategic Reserve.
- Subject: Re: Strategic Reserve.
- From: "Exnarc" <gwrly@netspace.net.au>
- Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 10:51:37 +1000
- Newsgroups: alt.railroad,aus.rail,misc.transport.rail.americas,misc.transport.rail.australia-nz,misc.transport.rail.europe
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Alistair Deayton <Alistair@deayton.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
news:7qjpc0$853$1@news7.svr.pol.co.uk...
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> > >
> > 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.
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> Alistair Deayton
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>
You know your right!!!
I worked for the Southern Region of the V.R.
Forgot about the Northern mob.<g>
Bob.