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Old 20-12-11, 06:55
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When I was traveling to school by train in the 1960s there was 3 lines of steam engines stretching from Newport to Williamstown nearly 2 kilometers all waiting to be cut up as scrap.
A sad site.
Graeme
Yes the train societies in Victoria got going just a tad too late to preserve most of it . Another ten years and most of it would have been saved . I never spotted a steam train, growing up in the Melbourne suburbs they didn't exist.

On interstate visits to NSW in the 1960's they were still to be seen in use just about everywhere , always finished in black . I was mesmerised by them having never seen them in Vic. Why did NSW keep them in service for longer ? I don't know .
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