| Well that was the huge front page headline on the Hobart Mercury, December 30, 2003. Reading between the lines, the paper was reporting on a derailment that the Ida Bay Bush Railway had about five kilometres down their track from Lune River Station on Sunday December 28. |
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Basically, the low speed tourist train derailed due to a "crack in a sleeper" and the engine fell over as the wheels sunk into the ground.
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| Passengers were as a result, inconvenienced by having to walk back out through the bush. Anything to sell a newspaper I guess with a headline like that. But the paper also reported that the problem was rectified and the train was "expected" to be back in service on the same day the article was published. |
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This brings us to the next little tale of woe for the little bush tourist rail operation, as vehemently outlined on the blackboard at Lune River Terminal.
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No mincing of words down here in southern Tasmania.
Well
there must be something expected to arrive from Ida Bay as the Home
Signal is in the fully clear position... or perhaps the signaling
is automatic?
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