Top railway museum to reopen after rescue by new owners
Sep 17, 2018
3 minutes
By Geoff Courtney
HOWARD MOFFAT
ONE OF Australia’s leading railway museums, which was for many years home to a number of British-built steam locomotives including one of the world’s largest operational preserved engines, has been saved nearly two years after its dramatic and unexpected closure.
Canberra Railway Museum closed in November 2016 following the financial collapse of the ACT division of the Australian Railway Historical Society, which ran the museum. As volunteers, preservationists and enthusiasts reeled from the sudden closure, two of
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