Comtrain goes H0! H0! H0!: 2015_05

2015/05/28

2015_05_28

2015_05_28 Its raining!

Have not spent much time in the Studio, due to the wet weather, the Albury show, the cold, and maybe because I remain un-motivated.
Murray Railway Modellers Show went off with a bang, and everybody seems to have enjoyed themselves.
I can do no better than to introduce Andrew who did this photo essay about the star of our little show.

Andrews Trains on Town and Country

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Andrew @Andrew'sTrains31/5/15 7:50 pm
Rod;
Thanks for the link back to the blog. Town and Country is fantastic in the flesh. I love the trains running under wire. Growing up in Sydney I spent all of my youth riding under the wires. My next project after finishing my home layout is to get an exhibition layout ready for 2018 using some of the excellent Sydney EMU models available in the market place.

Thanks again and I'll be back to see Town and Country again.
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Rod Young31/5/15 11:45 pm
Your very welcome :D
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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!

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