Comtrain goes H0! H0! H0!: 2013 Nov 15

2013/11/15

2013 Nov 15

2013 Nov 15
Today on the eve of my 68th Birthday at 10,33 am I got a call from the Post Master! My parcel had arrived!!

I am a little frightened to open it up :( After all three of my friends died without ever seeing their model.

I wonder if others will die of fright when they open their model? Just think it was 8 years since this was announced and the 8th anniversary of my Visa Payment will be in mid January 2014

Will I open it? or wait till I have someone home with me?

I think I need to go shopping, the pantry is bare. I will think about it whilst I am in Wodonga

Cheers

Rod

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Hopey15/11/13 2:53 pm
R !
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Hopey15/11/13 2:54 pm
ahhh , R, Ahhh. Verbal models actually have them. Damn- now we will have to think of something else !
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Paul Turtle15/11/13 11:37 pm
Wouldn't go around advertising your address, Rod...

Paul
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Rod Young17/11/13 7:35 pm
G'Day Paul
I thought about it, but then we do have protection :)
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About my Railway

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!

2013/11/15

2013 Nov 15

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