Re: Pendennis Castle

[keithm@happy.dca.gov.au (Dave Malcolm)]

In article <aC1D3.13132$1E2.89599@ozemail.com.au> "Garry Hoddinett" <hoddos@netspace.net.au> writes:
>From: "Garry Hoddinett" <hoddos@netspace.net.au>
>Subject: Re: Pendennis Castle
>Date: Mon, 13 Sep 1999 17:22:01 +1000


>Chris wrote in message
>> Pendennis Castle has been removed from the care of the PRHS by Hamersley
>Iron as HI own the loco. The PRHS is down to about three active members and
>their future is uncertain. Due to the court action where Robe River sought
>to gain access to HI's tracks and were knocked back, due to the ruling being
>that the railway is part of the mine production process, HI are unwilling to
>allow PRHS to run on their tracks as this may set a precedent  and allow
>Robe River to mount a successful appeal. There is also the problem of HI's
>in-cab signalling system which the preserved locos don't have. All the
>stories (or rumours) that I have heard indicate that HI are going to put the
>Castle up for sale and it would most likely go back to the UK.
>>

>Perhaps Hamersley Iron could do the right thing by both countries and swap
>Pendennis Castle for the the world's first Garrat locomotive which I believe
>ran on  Tasmania's Dundas tramway but is now in some museum in England.
>They could then 'donate' the loco to some Tasmanian museum or the new
>National Museum in Canberra.  Imagine the little thing stuffed and mounted
>beside 6029!


Shame 6029 no longer belongs to the National Museum, It was handed over to the 
ARHS ACT in 1998.