Full steam ahead

The Illawarra Light Rail Museum marks 47 years since they acquired Burra and Wallaby steam trains

Transcript

00:00I'm Brad Johns and my brother Trevor here. We've got it both along

00:05associated in the Illawarra Light Rail Museum and Trevor's an ex-retired

00:11diesel locomotive driver from the AONS traffic department and I work for Sydney

00:16Trains. But here today is about remembering what happened here 47 years

00:21ago back in 1978 when both Wallaby and Borough were both donated to the society.

00:27In the time they've been here Borough went on to be first steamed after

00:32restoration in 1994, put into service in 1995 and Wallaby has always been here as our

00:38front icon. She's always attracted a lot of people here and just recently to mark

00:44the occasion of today is that Wallaby was repainted back into the original colour scheme of the

00:49area that it had come from, back to celebrate Australia's industrial railways.

00:57Here are some real names, I'm not sure they're not from.

01:01Now, I'm going to show you the same and so on.

01:04When we approach the DIRO lately, we're going to show you the same and the amount of people

01:08to be ready for the event that we look to know.

01:10Some folks in this room will shop in the city

01:12and ask us all and how to put the event together.

01:14And here is how the event is for the event that we are going to work for any other

01:18bigger event.

01:19And then we're going to show you the same as the event.