Railways and Industrial Heritage Society Philippines
ANZ Chapter
ANZ Chapter
Things have been busy on this charity front of late, the launching of our first newsletter (see below) has been quickly followed by a huge advertising campain (at my personal expense Oh Great PLASTIC ONE) around the various museums, Filipino associations and Australian Filipino press.
We have been getting some positive feedback and hope to start exhibiting at Filipino events in the future.
We have started taking membership from around Australia, with overseas membership expected to start in coming weeks.
We are extremely fortunate to have the support of the Pasalubong Foodmart in Sydney who now have a donation box available for anyone who is kind enough to give to this worthy historical charity.
Pasalubong Foodmart is currently in the process of developing a website for anyone who wishes to know more. It is in its early days but will be found at
We sincerely thank Pasalubong for their help.
Thanks must also go to the local Filipino media, most especially the Bayanihan News for their continued support.
News from the Philippines has also been great.
Membership has been steadily growing, our first item (an early 1900s rail trike) is approaching full restoration and the society has been asked to inspect 23 carriages that are due for scrapping, with a view to obtaining some for restoration.
The ultimate aim is to restore one of the Philippines historic steam locomotives, of which only three remain, and use it on historic tours out of Manila.
In the meantime a museum is planned which will house items and documents of railway and industrial heritage, as well as act as a museum for people to check out their important history.
We would welcome hearing from anyone who can help, even the smallest donation helps us along and also helps give people work (through help restoring) in the Philippines, not to mention helping the economy as most money raised will be spent on Philippine items.
Thank you to everyone - More updates later.
Regards
Brad
President: Railways and Industrial Heritage Society Philippines Inc
(Australian Chapter)
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