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It's the real thing

Amazingly South Australia’s very own no.520 “Sir Malcolm Barclay Harvey” has been immortalised in the latest Thomas the Tank Engine movie.

 

Shane, a fun-loving, carefree green and gold engine is based on a real life locomotive that rolled out of South Australian Islington workshops in 1944.

 

520 was seen here at Blackwood in the Adelaide Hills working a Steamranger ‘Southern Encounter’ excursion in the late 1980s. The locomotive is currently under restoration at Steamranger’s Mount Barker depot.

 

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Uploaded on April 6, 2016
Taken in October 1987