Rail enthusiast behind Mary Ann discovery revealed
Rail enthusiast behind Mary Ann discovery revealed Merv Volker and Peter Olds compare the original name plate with the replica casting as the Mary Ann steams up for her Thursday run News Nancy Bates Premium Content Subscriber only MERV Volker, a quiet and unassuming man from Ipswich, has been revealed as the "Santa Claus" who brought back to Maryborough the name plate fixed to the original Mary Ann steam locomotive 147 years ago. Mr Volker, a railway enthusiast whose family moved to Granville in 1961, bought the weathered brass name plate from a frie...