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History keeps a-rollin’

Oct 06 2023 Updated October 2, 2023

Ken Smith

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Mick Grantham, Phil Smith, Simon Bowden and Chris Eagle

Greg, Adelaide, Mary, Campbell and Harriet

Back, Candice and Leigh, Front, Tilly and Marli

Steam Locomotive 3237 at Dubbo Station, October Long Weekend. 2023

The clocks went forward and we went back 130 years with the arrival in Dubbo of Steam Locomotive 3237.

The one-hour trips to Minore and back on Saturday and Sunday proved again very popular with rail enthusiasts and local and visiting families.

Steam Locomotive 3237 ran commercially between February 1893 and November 1971 and has recently undergone a six year restoration becoming the Central West’s own resident steam engine.

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