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    Flagship streamliner hit by new problems as return delayed again

    Jun 25, 2018 4 minutes
    By Geoff Courtney

    THE controversial and much-delayed restoration of one of the world’s flagship streamlined steam locomotives has been hit by new problems that have led to its eagerly-awaited return to the main line being put back yet again.

    New South Wales Government Railways’C38 class 4-6-2 No. 3801, built by Clyde Engineering of Sydney in 1943 and saved for preservation by the state government in 1962, was taken off railtour duty at the end of 2007 for a £1¼ million overhaul that was initially expected to be completed in 2011.

    More than 10 years after it last steamed, and seven years after

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