Comtrain goes H0! H0! H0!: 2013 June 4

2013/06/04

2013 June 4

2013 June 4

Distracted again today :(
Went to Yackandandah Engineering to buy some angle iron, but as usual no one was there to serve me. Ended up going into Wodonga where I got exactly what I wanted, cut to size as well.
Friend Jim offered to bring his welder and fix up the angle bracket supports which I used to stabilise the top level in the middle of room. I have decided I cannot live with the angled supports to these brackets that are in full view. As the whole branch line is well supported by the shelving central posts, these angle brackets only stabilise, and I decided that if I reinforce the top plate with 40 x 40 mm angle iron it will be able to do this without the angle bracket support. Jim came over and took half the brackets home to weld them up for me. When they come back we will install them and then do the other side. Anyway today was otherwise not very productive as was this evening sleeping in front of the tv. :D
Tuesday is often shopping day, so maybe so will tomorrow.
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!

2013/06/04

2013 June 4

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