Comtrain goes H0! H0! H0!: 2019_11_19 Finishing off new loop track.

2019/11/19

2019_11_19 Finishing off new loop track.

2019_11_19 Ok just to prove I can do it! Bung eye and all :D

And so (as explained last post) this (un-named station) needed something else to turn it from a "Stopping Point" into a station fitting the buildings

So we extended the base board and swapped out the LH point for a double slip, moving the point to No 2 road to create an extension for longer trains.

Pretty happy with the way it works. Only need a few wires to be joined into bus and four point motors.

So here is the first cross 701 on loan from trough running pool, set back into siding as the local Pass arrives from Honeysuckle.

I like my little station now, and I was fortunate to get it in with the new fascias in place..
Just discovered I was running short of servo motors, and leads. Australian price about 5 times the Chinese price and so order placed on China as well as another100 m of 5m led light tapes.
Cheers
Rod

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DavidV22/11/19 8:34 am
It's good to see the structures going in. They look great.
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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!

2019/11/19

2019_11_19 Finishing off new loop track.

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