‘Dominion of Canada has not been sold and is not for sale’ say officials after online claim in Australia
Jan 15, 2019
3 minutes
By Geoff Courtney
ALAN MITCHELL
JOHN ROBERTSON/TRANSPORT TREASURY
A claim by an Australian syndicate that it had bought a“certain English locomotive”– widely believed to have referred to preserved No. 60010 Dominion of Canada – has been exposed as a hoax, after a‘true or false’mystery worthy of an Agatha Christie novel.
The locomotive was donated by BR to the Canadian Railroad Historical Association after its withdrawal from Aberdeen Ferryhill in May 1965 and, until recently, had been on display at the Canadian
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