12 October 2011

GMR can finally report that all the carriages and other rolling stock
owned by the Dorrigo Steam Railway Museum and stored by them
at Lowanna have been removed. The last item was the Bogie Acid
Tank Wagon, SUL.22 which was removed during September ahead
of the deadline agreed at the DSRM/GMR mediation session.

After protracted negotiations, a long standing environmental and
dangerous hazard to the community of Lowanna has been removed.
It was heartening to note the cooperation between DSRM and ourselves
to achieve this outcome.

This removal involved the scrapping by GMR of 16 carriages which
were in very poor condition.  Much as this was regrettable, GMR
believed  it had no other choice due to the conditions imposed on GMR
by the recent settlement and the prohibitive cost of relocating these
items with little realistic prospects of preservation or restoration.
GMR advertised the opportunity for Heritage groups to purchase any of 
the bogies from these carriages over many weeks but no offers
were received.

The following views will give some idea of the condition of the carriages 
at Lowanna.