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NSW Kiama Fowler is a steam locomotive that was in service in New South Wales, Australia. It is sometimes also called Wollondilly. [1] [2]
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NSW Kiama Fowler is a steam locomotive that was in service in New South Wales, Australia. It is sometimes also called Wollondilly. [1] [2]
Kiama Fowler was built by the John Fowler plant at Leeds in England in 1923, it was used at the Kiama Quarries for blue metal haulage at the town of Kiama until 1941 when the quarry was shut down. [3] ("Blue metal" is another name for basalt. [2] )
After the Quarry had closed the locomotive was used by a variety of preservation groups until donated to the Illawarra Light Railway Museum on 28 August 1998. As of 2015, it is under restoration. [1]
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NSW Kiama was a steam locomotive seeing service in New South Wales, Australia.
The SS Bombo was a coastal freighter which foundered on the South Coast of New South Wales, Australia in February 1949 with the loss of twelve of her fourteen crew. Built in Scotland in 1929, the SS Bombo was sailed to Australia to carry blue metal from the town of Kiama to the port of Sydney. During World War II she was requisitioned by the Royal Australian Navy and served as a minesweeper and a stores carrier in the Pacific Theatre to the north of Australia.
The Stone Fleet was the colloquial name for the small coastal ships that carried crushed-stone construction aggregate to Sydney from the Illawarra ports of Kiama and Shellharbour and the nearby ocean jetties at Bombo and Bass Point.
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