Comtrain goes H0! H0! H0!: 2016_10

2016/10/06

2016_10_06 Continues

2016_10_06 Still trying to get the silo area looking right

Decided to install a platform, which needed more track rearrangement. I bought the station on E Bay a few years ago. Maybe someone will recognise it :)

Already I find the requirements needed to keep curves on the SG about 44" or above are going to force me to remove all the points and move them away from the BG points temporarily located (on top) near the platform.. The slip is roughed in, and this is not going to work.

The SG sneaks in behind, just as on the North East Line and the 80 footers are looking ok.

The station is fully detailed and has a goods shed on main platform. Not prototypical, I guess, but a nice little scene, none the less.

Cheers
Rod

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Unknown10/10/16 1:12 am
Hello Rod
A nice little station and goods shed. I also like a comment on the nice blue SOP carrages. yours sincerly Malcolm Aldridge
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Rod Young10/10/16 12:05 pm
Thanks Malcolm. I should be out there fixing the track :( However Bathurst got in the way, didn't it ;)

The SOP cars are fresh out of the box, and another project waiting for work to be done. I have had them for 20 years, so no hurry, I guess.
Cheers
Rod
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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

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