As mentioned by Michael Menzies on the previous page, the first public steaming of the ex-Fyansford No.6 (HC 646/1903) was the occasion of a visit to Geelong of the Light Railway Research Society of Australia. My memories of the day were recently revived when, whilst sifting through my geological filing system, I chanced upon some notes I had made on the day in scrawled schoolboy 'writing'. Earlier on that day we had spent a very pleasant hour at Moolap saltworks inspecting and riding on the Cheetham Salt Co's 2ft-gauge tramway. Following that visit a short bus ride had brought us to Belmont Common, a large area, subject to to the far end of the track where the Vulcan locomotive's cab could be seen rearing itself in the air. It transpired that the Hudswell Clark's driver had misjudged distances and partly pushed the Vulcan locomotive (ex-Fyansford No.4 Vulcan Ironworks 2533/1916) off the end of the track. There it sat - rear wheels in the air and front buffer beam in the dirt, with water flowing from its saddle tank. For some reason (!) this event stuck in the schoolboy's mind and flooding, beside the Barwon River, a couple of miles south of Geelong.
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