Strange, concerning situation has developed at the important , interesting Adelaide River Railway Museum Precinct in the Northern Territory . A legal type letter of demand was sent to the railway by AARC , the consortium which runs the main North South rail link , alleging illegal structures and rolling stock have been placed on the corridor, and the public invited to come in and view .
Furthermore , AARC wants to build a 1.8metre security fence through the railway museum area, creating access problems and interfering with the museum's future plans.
The museum's January newsletter, All Aboard , outlines the extraordinary situation in full , including approaches to the Chief Minister , Adam Giles, and local member , Gary Higgins, to no avail, independent Gerry Wood the only one trying to help .
There are claims that the government's own Heritage Branch , supposed to protect the heritage, has disappeared down a tunnel like a ghost train .
The Genealogical Society of the Northern Territory , soon to place a well researched Adelaide River Pioneer Cemetery plaque near the railway museum site , is concerned about the situation.
Adelaide River is also the site of the war cemetery. In the early days of settlement in Darwin the railway held an annual picnic at the river and author Xavier Herbert actually worked as a fettler in the railway camp there gaining material for his 1938 award winning novel about the Territory, Capricornia.
