Comtrain goes H0! H0! H0!: 2013 May 2

2013/05/02

2013 May 2

2013 May 2   Thursday

Life getting in the way again :(
My dear old LandRover Disco is still suffering the bad fuel I got from a Liberty Garage in Hallam Victoria Apparently it was mostly bio-diesel and it killed my fuel pump and fuel lines It melted fuel filters and ran muck through the system and cost me $2500 to fix. We thought we escaped lightly because the Injectors and High pressure pump appeared ok.
Last week the car sprang a diesel leak on the injector nearest firewall, and it appears the vehicle is heading for a $7000 rebuild. None of this reflects badly on a beautiful motor car, just on unscrupulous people from foriegn lands (Guess) who think they can escape punishment and do what is needed to bank even more cash.
   So last 10 days or so has had me rather preoccupied .... But

I finally worked out what I wanted on my Tombstone.

Under my name and dates etc....   This ;)

Cheers
Rod

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The Australian National Railways was established by the Whitlam Federal Government following a commitment made in the 1972 election to invite the states to hand over their railway systems to the federal government. In July 1975 Australian National Railways was formed taking over the operations of the federal government owned Commonwealth Railways.

The state governments of South Australia and Tasmania whose railway systems were deeply in debt, accepted. During the next two years discussions between these two states and the federal government resulted in a number of staffing and operating agreements being made that resulted in all South Australian Railways services (except for the Adelaide metropolitan passenger network) and all Tasmanian Government Railways services transferring to Australian National Railway in March 1978, the latter being re-branded AN Tasrail.

At first Victoria declined to hand over its Railways, however a change of Government after Bolte retired meant Victoria could be absorbed into AN as well.
Despite doing everything they could to tarnish ALP leader Clyde Holding, The ALP were able to defeat Hamer who was seen to be just another Bolte, doing more of the same into the future.

Clyde Holding handed over Victorian Railways to the Commonwealth where it prospered as a division of AN retaining its VR colours until later when AN decided to re-brand it as V/Line.

My Railway thus reflects what could have been ;)
And of course National Rail (Pacific National) has no place in my little scenario. Australian National was never privatised and has continually taken East Coast loads off the Highways. As well many branch lines were upgraded and Whitlam's policy of decentralisation actually moved employment to towns with a ready pool of workers, which of course took the pressure of Melbourne which was starting to expand as bush kids moved away from the Country in search of education and employment ( just as Gough Whitlam envisaged it would do)
Rod Young

Comtrain goes H0! H0! H0!

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