Following the climate occasion that culminated in Wollondilly being declared a catastrophe area, Wollondilly Council and Transport Heritage NSW have collectively agreed to postpone the occasion to later within the yr.
An inspection of the pageant web site yesterday afternoon revealed the bottom’s saturation stage wouldn’t help the mandatory infrastructure for the occasion, due to weeks of storms and flooding. Given many entry routes to Thirlmere have sustained vital injury, this troublesome choice was made.
Mayor Matt Gould mentioned, “This choice was not taken calmly, and has been made so as to respect the integrity of this well-loved occasion. While that is extraordinarily disappointing for everybody, it does signifies that the deferred occasion is not going to require scaling again and will replicate as a substitute, the grandeur of such a premier steam occasion for the area.”
“Our Council workers are persevering with to handle street and bridge closures, landslips and vital injury to our street community and some of our neighborhood members are nonetheless cleansing up from the injury completed to their properties, so by suspending we are going to make it doable to have a real celebration of the return of the Festival for everybody.”
“We intend to come again greater and higher than ever later within the yr and we wish to thank everybody for his or her understanding in what have been some difficult circumstances for the city of Thirlmere and the Wollondilly Shire over the previous week.”
Transport Heritage NSW CEO Andrew Moritz mentioned, “It’s with a heavy coronary heart we have now made the joint choice to postpone the Festival of Steam, significantly given the hassle our volunteers and workers have put into getting ready this occasion. We glance ahead to working with Council to decide an appropriate different date within the close to future.”
“Our ideas are with everybody who has been impacted by the floods and storms throughout NSW and Queensland at the moment.”
