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Purwodadi originally had a large fleet but in the
1980s the mill abandoned its field lines and most of the steam locomotives were
set aside and later scrapped. The road yard operation has hardly changed since
then...
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Purwodadi had two small OK 2-4-0T to work
the yard. This was #3 on 5th August 1975, certainly my first ever sugar
mill in Java, possibly my first ever photograph and certainly not my
best!
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I returned on 8th June 1978, this was the
only time I recorded OK 0-8-0T #18, like more than half the fleet it
vanished very early on.
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The bridge is still there outside the mill
and it still sees steam, but I wonder how people viewing this page saw #3
on it as I did on 26th May 1979?
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The same morning, OK 0-8-0T #17
had got into trouble on a returning cane train and large OK 0-8-0T #5 was
dispatched to help.
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Purwodadi had a large OK
allocation with just two locomotives from other builders, both of which
were scrapped long ago. DB 0-8-0T #13 was outside the shed on 24th August
1983.
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Maffei 0-8-0T #7 was the other
non OK locomotive, photographed on the same day.
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