Re: Pendennis Castle

["Exnarc" <gwrly@netspace.net.au>]

Les Brown <pcc@ocean.com.au> wrote in message
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> "Gheringhap Loop" <ghaploop@iaa.com.au> wrote in aus.rail:
>
> >Just received my October 99 issue of the Railway Magazine from the UK.
> >On the front cover is a photo of 4079 Pendennis Castle outside the shed
at
> >Dampier, with the following title:-
> >"COMING HOME?. Didcot bids to bring Pendennis Castle back from OZ"
> >
> And, hopefully, back to where it belongs. Pendennis Castle at
> Paddington, ahh, now there's a sight I'm sure many would like to see!
> But I wonder if in amongst the 500 odd mainline steamers working over
> there it would be appreciated as much as it is here. Is it even
> appreciated here?
>
> I suppose if one of our R-classes were to go to Ireland, would we not
> be clamoring to bring it back to "where it belongs"?
>
> How about if a GM-EMD where to go to the USA, would it matter? Perhaps
> not as much.
>
> Les Brown

If GOD had intended his green locomotives to run anyware but out of
Paddington he would have built his "Wonderful Railway in the Pilbura"

I guess you've gathered that I'm a "God's Wonderful Railway" fan by my email
address???

Bob.