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K 169 Statically displayed at Coal Creek |
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K 169 at the railway station exhibit at the Coal Creek museum, Easter 1998.
Steam blows from the whistle and K 169 looks ready to
depart... but she hasn't turned a wheel in decades!
K 169 was
built by the Victorian Railways' Newport Workshops in 1941 to the successful
K-class 2-8-0 locomotive design for branch-line work.
K 169 and
several carriages are displayed at a recreated station scene at the Coal Creek Museum,
Korumburra. Live steam piped to the whistle and cylinder drain cocks to give
the impression of K 169 being ready to depart the station, although it never
has! Visitors to the locomotive cab regularly pull the whistle cord, sending a
shrill toot echoing around the extensive grounds of the Coal
Creek museum.
References
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a |
‘A brief
history of Preserved Rolling Stock of Victoria’ by
Norm Bray, Peter J Vincent and Daryl M Gregory. Published by
Brief History Books, PO Box 437, Sunbury, Vic 3429. |
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b |
ARHS
(Victorian Division) 'North Williamstown Railway Museum', Third
Edition 1968, revised 1977, reprinted 1980. |
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c |
‘Locomotives
of Australia - 1985 to 2010’ (Fifth
Edition), by Leon Oberg, published
2010 by Rosenberg Publishing Pty Ltd. |
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d |
Wikipedia
page for VR K-class locomotives: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorian_Railways_K_class Retrieved
21 February 2023 |
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