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Java's Steam Tram Locomotives in the 1970s |
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Click here for the Surviving Steam Trams of the World introduction. I (Rob Dickinson) have always had a fascination for steam tram locomotives, by all accounts my favourite 'Thomas' character was 'Toby the Tram Engine' although I lived in the wrong part of the UK (West Country) to stand any chance of seeing the last ones at work in England. All this was spectacularly put right in Java in the 1970s. I remember spending an afternoon when I was supposed to be working looking entranced at the pictures in the newly published Durrant's Power Parade in 1975 and later that year seeing them in the flesh for the first time. Further examples followed on my 1976, 1977, 1978 and 1979 bashes to the island. To round off the collection I have included the two OJS locos sold off to Tasikmadu sugar mill in 1927 which were photographed rather later.
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Rob Dickinson
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