Last-minute fire drama fails to stop rail museum reopening
Oct 22, 2019
3 minutes
By Geoff Courtney
MICHAEL KEMP
A DRAMATIC fire that destroyed a carriage failed to prevent one of the southern hemisphere’s leading railway museums from reopening on October 6, nearly three years after its shock closure and the hurried removal of two prized British-built locomotives, including a Beyer-Garratt 4-8-4+4-8-4.
Canberra Railway Museum unexpectedly closed in November 2016 following the financial collapse of the ACT division of the Australian Railway Historical Society (ARHS ACT), which ran the museum. Just days
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