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Mojopanggung is a somewhat remote mill outside
Tulungagung and rarely visited. Like the other mills in this area, it abandoned
its field lines early on but steam survived in the mill into the 21st century.
However, eventual rationalisation saw total dieselisation.
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I went with Peter Nettleship to Mojopanggung
very early on 2nd June 1978 and it took us an eternity to get in as they
insisted we wait for and then take tea with the administrator. Later on we
met up with the yard shunter, OK 0-8-0T #1 with OK valve gear. It was
underpowered and retired early but survives preserved in the mill grounds.
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We were personally escorted by the boss to
the yard where we found OK 0-4-4-0T #10, which later became Gempolkerep
5.
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Such a visit as ours was a rare occasion
then and a group of staff was rounded up for the obligatory souvenir
picture - you'll have not trouble identifying our host. Of course,
afterwards they all got out of the way for the other group picture.
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Alas of the mill's two Baldwins, one
(#9) was
stuck in the back of the shed and there was no trace of the other (#8). When we
politely expressed our disappointment as they were the main reason to come
here, the boss said "Ah, you should have been here by 07.00 to see
it!". Of course we had been but we couldn't tell him. However, he saved
the day in characteristically generous fashion by sending us out in his Land
Rover to find it - it was a hell of a long way by road as there was a rail
but no road bridge in between. The journey back on the loco was straight
out of the sun but it was a wonderful ride... This locomotive is
reported preserved here.
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OK 0-8-0T #2 was shunting in the
yard when I came here on 16th August 1994.
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One could readily imagine that DB 0-8-0T #6 was on some kind of field
line as opposed to the headshunt on the same day. Apart from #1 and #8 all
the other locomotives here are reported scrapped.
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