The Canberra Railway Museum has shut its doors while it undertakes a restructure after falling more than half a million dollars in debt.
The operation was struck by a series of blows after starting its own freight company to subsidise popular but expensive passenger trips on its heritage trains.
ESPEE Railroad Services was opened to much fanfare and won a lucrative contract with a major commercial freight company. But the pressure of heavy machinery loading and unloading cargo on what was once swampland caused concrete to break and, with machinery getting bogged and no sign o…
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