ARHS Railway Museum Closure

[bayside]

According the ARHS Railway Museum website they will closed from 26 February 2010 in order to carry out essential maintenance works.

It is a sad day when the first Railway Museum in Australia since 1962 has to close.

It is also sad that proposal in 1999 to move the Museum to an undercover location in East Block has never gain approval or funding from government.

For all those interested in railways and railway heritage should be concerned about the long term future of the railway museum.

[Bravus]

According the ARHS Railway Museum website they will closed from 26 February 2010 in order to carry out essential maintenance works.

It is a sad day when the first Railway Museum in Australia since 1962 has to close.

It is also sad that proposal in 1999 to move the Museum to an undercover location in East Block has never gain approval or funding from government.

For all those interested in railways and railway heritage should be concerned about the long term future of the railway museum.

If they're just closed to maintenance work it's not overly concerning.

[Corio]

The ARHS Museum remains closed after seven months. A little bit of work has been done by VicTrack to overcome some of the problems it said necessitated the closure. However there's still a long way to go. Even when the museum re-opens, parts of it will no longer be accessible to visitors.

Tragically, as part of VicTrack's clean-up of some of the accumulated "junk" on the site, a number of lengths of rare 160 year old Barlow rail were ignorantly carted off to Sims Metal.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barlow_rail