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Ceper closed at the end of the 1997
season, it was a strange mill, apart from the road gantry, everything including
staff housing was inside in a large secure compound. Of all the mills I visited
this had possibly the least friendly management of any, on one occasion with a
tour group even though we had full permission from headquarters and had done no
more than cluster round the shed for an hour we were asked to leave.
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My first visit to Ceper was on 22nd May 1979
and not a great deal was going on... Jung 0-6-0T #4 was standing in the
yard and it was the only time I saw it at Ceper as it was soon transferred
to Banjaratma where it became their #8.
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My next extended visit was on 23rd August
1986, when I rode Jung 0-4-4-0T #5 out into the fields where I was
rewarded with a loaded cane train in glorious afternoon light.
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Fast forwarding to 29th July
1995, the condition of the locomotives has deteriorated markedly. Sister
Jung 0-4-4-0T #8 was working the mud train just outside the mill and at
one stage had to be 'bump started' by another passing locomotive!
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Previously on the same morning,
BMAG 0-10-0T #10 had come with a much delayed overnight cane train.
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It was unusual to see the large
BMAGs #9 and 10 together, on 3rd August 1997 they slipped past each other
outside the shed.
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