Trainspotters will be in for a treat when the Locomotive 3801 steams past several stations on April 1.
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The Locomotive 3801 was first built in 1943 by Clyde Engineering and was retired in 1962. In 2007 it required major boiler repairs. In 2015 a plan to repair the original boiler was developed.
Repairs to the original boiler were completed by Ainsworths of Goulburn, with the boiler returning to Chullora on 1 July 2019.
The boiler has since been reunited with the locomotive and certified on 21 October 2019.
Locomotive 3801 was officially relaunched at Sydney's Central Station on March 12, 2021 by Her Excellency, the Honourable Margaret Beazley AC QC, Governor of New South Wales.
Locomotive 3801 will operate on a transfer movement from Thirlmere to Junee on April 1, 2020 before its final leg to Albury.
No passengers will be on the train.
Currently the train will pass through the following locations on April 1, 2021:
- Thirlmere 8.55 am
- Picton 9.20 am -9.35 am
- Bowral 10.37 am
- Moss Vale 10.46 am 11.01 am
- Bundanoon 11.18 am
- Goulburn 12.10 pm -12.48 pm
- Gunning 1.38 pm -1.53 pm
- Yass Junction 2.33 pm
- Harden 3.42 pm - 4.08 pm
- Cootamundra 4.54 pm
- Junee 5.45 pm
The above times are indicative and subject to change.