Richmond Vale Railway
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Richmond Vale Railway
Sad to see on the news just now that the Richmond Vale Railway Museum has suffered extensive damage in the current bushfires in the area.
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Re: Richmond Vale Railway
There's photos in the tweet below from the Richmond Vale Railway Museum from the Herald's Brodie Owen. Normally I'd post the full photos here but there too big & I'm not really in the mood to go downsizing them now but it's in the posted tweet below anyway.
https://twitter.com/Brodie_Owen/status/ ... 5286510592
Devastating News of course
https://twitter.com/Brodie_Owen/status/ ... 5286510592
Devastating News of course
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Re: Richmond Vale Railway
It's a shame to see heritage rolling stock be destroyed by fire.
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Re: Richmond Vale Railway
A guy set fire to a car which lead to this devastating loss. I can't imagine the pain going through the members. A shame I had to learn of this museum's existence this way.
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Re: Richmond Vale Railway
Knowing our justice system the person(s) responsible for this will only be giving the ol slap on the wrist & told to be free or only put on a good behaviour bond. Even more devastating I've just picked up on the fact now it was vandals behind this :/Swift wrote:A guy set fire to a car which lead to this devastating loss. I can't imagine the pain going through the members. A shame I had to learn of this museum's existence this way.
I hope their caught. This is something you can't bring back. I wonder how they'd like it if someone went through their own family history collection of items and destroyed it.
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Re: Richmond Vale Railway
The Richmond vale museums own facebook site is saying it was an RFS back burn which went wrong due to a wind change.
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Re: Richmond Vale Railway
A "back burn" is usually an attempt to stop/contain an existing fire. in this case the original outbreak may still have spread to the site.
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Bloody frustrating, whoever is responsible, but you do hope it isn't the deliberate act of vandals!
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Re: Richmond Vale Railway
when I lived at pelaw main just before every school holidays a scrub fire would start & the local council would never clear the land close to that museun & they owned it!the homes on the edge of town have nearlly gone up many times the people get caught get a slap on the wrist their parents house should be sold to pay for the damage caused the ferrals who live there wouldn't work even with free oxygen 3 gererations have never worked a day in their lives & they will tell you the govt OWES them a living! what with zig zag/ richmond rail /canberra being sold there will be NO railway museums left!
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