Tully No.6 Roared back to life

The steam locomotive was bought for $100, but will be the star of the show at the Illawarra Light Railway Museum.

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00:00Hi, I'm Brad, I'm the Treasurer of the Illawarra Light Rail Museum and my role will

00:10prepare you as the painting and presentation.

00:13This locomotive first arrived at Albin Park in the Illawarra in 1973 and it came here

00:18in 1976.

00:19The boiler was restored, the locomotive was restored, so in 1987 the locomotive was in

00:26service here.

00:28Going forward to about 2015, the locomotive had boiler problems and we had to rebuild

00:34the thing.

00:35So, after quite a few years of work, we now have Perry back in service for this Sunday,

00:41follow its journey from my island in South Australia right to Albin Park and it's a day

00:46that everybody will enjoy.

00:49Hi, I'm Carolyn, I'm the Chairperson here at Illawarra Light Railway.

00:53When they came to me and said that the boiler needed work, it was my job to go and find

00:58the funding, which Transport Heritage came along with two grants and then we did running

01:05days to build the rest of the money that we required.

01:09This is the only Australian built Perry that is running in Australia at this time and I'm

01:15very proud of the teamwork that has got this day together and very proud to be the Chairperson

01:22here.