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06 Dec 2007 @ 12:41 AM

Plans steaming ahead – Council seeks to restore engine – Local – General – Narromine News

Narromine Shire Council is exploring the feasibility of restoring a Fowler B6 Steam Road Locomotive formally owned by Timbrebongie Shire Council.

The engine was used to construct roads in the shire, and was one of the last of its type to be manufactured by the famous English firm John Fowler & Co, in 1925.

It is understood the Hamblin family of ‘Avoca’ Narromine donated the engine to the council in the 1970s after recognising its links with the shire’s past.

Council has commissioned a conservation management plan for the engine, which will allow a precise estimation of its heritage significance and restoration potential. The plan will hopefully enable heritage funding for restoration of the engine over the next few years.

Plans steaming ahead – Council seeks to restore engine – Local – General – Narromine News

From my old hometown – A big old steam engine that one of my family lines once had possession of.

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