Installation of the 19th century C class carriage C100 in its permanent home in the Lumsden railway precinct moves the trust a step closer to completing a unique heritage train static display.
I'm very pleased to see this restoration and I heartily congratulate those who did the work. It's a shame, though, that the Lumsden Heritage Trust has chosen to ignore how this historic piece of rollingstock was 'found'. I was staying at a Winton motel adjacent to the property on which it was being used as a garden shed, and noticed the decaying old 'shed'--which is not visible from the street--from the bathroom window, and recognised it as an ancient railway passenger carriage. I have a photo taken on that day, which I provided as part of tmy posting on Ghost Railways of Southland. I contacted Mr McDermott and discussed the old coach, subsequently providing the details in a public posting on the Ghost Railways of Southland Facebook page. There is a correspondence thread there to show how members of that Fb group were able, after a wide-ranging debate, to identify the coach. Someone from the LHT subsequently contacted Mr McDermott and made the arrangements to acquire the item, at the same time disingenuously taking credit for having found it. They did not.
I'm very pleased to see this restoration and I heartily congratulate those who did the work. It's a shame, though, that the Lumsden Heritage Trust has chosen to ignore how this historic piece of rollingstock was 'found'. I was staying at a Winton motel adjacent to the property on which it was being used as a garden shed, and noticed the decaying old 'shed'--which is not visible from the street--from the bathroom window, and recognised it as an ancient railway passenger carriage. I have a photo taken on that day, which I provided as part of tmy posting on Ghost Railways of Southland. I contacted Mr McDermott and discussed the old coach, subsequently providing the details in a public posting on the Ghost Railways of Southland Facebook page. There is a correspondence thread there to show how members of that Fb group were able, after a wide-ranging debate, to identify the coach. Someone from the LHT subsequently contacted Mr McDermott and made the arrangements to acquire the item, at the same time disingenuously taking credit for having found it. They did not.