It is part of a $20 million investment in the state’s rail
heritage over the next five years.
But State Transport Minister John Watkins has also set up a
panel to decide who will run the locomotive in the future.
It is currently run by 3801 Limited, and chairman John
Glastonbury says there is nothing wrong with the current situation.
“We’ve been saying we’ve been doing this for the past
20 years – we believe we’ve done it well,” he said.
“We’ve been asking the Government, the Minister, for
the authority to continue doing it because we believe the community would wish
that to be the case.”