Re: Re: Sydney - Brisbane 548 and Bendigo 30

IS Edit
Thursday, April 4, 2002 11:29 PM

Sounds reasonable. Thanks, Peter.

Birney 30 provided the backbone of the service, along with Birney 28 and Max traction bogie 25 at the beginning of the tourist operation there.

Bob Murphy

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From: pvawser

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Sent: Friday, April 05, 2002 6:32 AM

Subject: [TramsDownUnder] Re: Sydney - Brisbane 548 and Bendigo 30

--- In TramsDownUnder@y..., "IS Edit" <bobmurphy2@c...> wrote: > ... Do you know why Bendigo 30 was in Sydney? There are a number of reasons. The main one was as a swap with an R or R1. One of the deeper reasons is to break the Birney fleet up a bit. They have great historic value, and while it's nice to get a shot of all of them outside the Bendigo Depot, it's more sensible to store them separately. That's why they always keep one out at the gasworks. -- Peter Vawser [email protected]

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