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Members Newsletter Will Be Edited by Need Is a Friendly Disposition Castlemaine and Maldon Railway Preservation Members Society Newsletter August 2012 The Railway Honours Three Stalwarts The 2012 Annual General Meeting was attended by approximately 40 members who gathered to adopt the report of the board and to vote in the new board and the office-holders for the next year. The AGM also provided the opportunity to honour three stalwarts of the railway, Alan Lang, John Shaw and Lionel Turner, who was unable to attend the meeting. Newly elected president, Michael Vines, spoke about the contribution that Alan, John and Lionel had made to the railway over many years and the continuing service that three gentlemen still make to the railway. In the photos, above, Alan Lang (left) and John Shaw (right) were presented with Honorary Life Membership certificates by president, Michael Vines. The other significant item of business that was discussed and voted upon, was the decision to create a new membership category of Pensioner Member, allowing any member who holds a government pension card to be able to pay a reduced membership fee each year. Bandiana Rail Recovery Work Continues Our hard working volunteers of the Civil Branch have now sent out seven truck loads of rail out of an estimated 32. The volunteers of the Civil Branch still have a further 13km of rail to recover, which will take the between 8 and 10 weeks. The number of volunteers has declined over the Winter months and the Civil Branch desperately need the assistance of more volunteers so that we can finish the project and the volunteers can return home after their time spent away from home. The railway will assist any volunteers who can spare some time to go up and work at Bandiana with accommodation and fuel. The work involves working with a small team of volunteers and the atmosphere is friendly and supportive. If you can assisy, please contact Art Lynch on 5470 5395 or 0427 705 395 August 2012 Page 2 Retiring President’s Column by Paul McDonald This is likely the last column I will contribute Whether the issue is either high or low, a since, as flagged in mail outs of information to quiet time or flat out, trying to work out members concerning the Annual General some of the complex financial problems Meeting of the Society, I have decided to step encountered in the early days of my aside from the position of President. When Presidency, I consider it a privilege to have my wife and I first decided to move to had the team of Directors alongside me. Maldon, being elected to the Board was not Without them, and without the Managers of on the horizon, let alone finding, a relatively the Divisions or Departments, my task would short time later, being catapulted into the have been so much harder. The Directors role of President. I found very quickly that a have been from a range of backgrounds with couple of days each week in the workshop or a range of experience all of which have out with the track gang became most days contributed to an eminently successful and nights of the week with the telephone outcome. I urge all members to get behind and computer being used instead of the tools the Board as we move on to some important of the workshop or track gang. new phases in the life of the Railway and strive to make the V.G.R. the premier Tourist These past few years have presented both railway in the State. elation and disappointment as the Railway has seen some extraordinary highs and lows. The The Board has recently taken some decisions introduction of the Rail Safety Act 2006 and which will involve expenditure of the Tourist and Heritage Railways Act 2010 considerable amounts but which are vital and both lead to significant increases in work load are considered investments in the future of for Board members and managers and the Railway. There are still important projects perhaps the high point was the recognition by officers from these departments have current which require volunteer input and I Government that the Tourist and Heritage provided much assistance – and continue to strongly urge all members to think seriously Railways are both viable businesses and do so – which has made the transition so about giving some of their time over the next contribute significantly to Tourism within the much easier. few months as we see some of these through State. This is something that has been sought to conclusion. Possibly the most pressing by the sector for a number of years and the From the other side of the ledger – the need we face at the moment is volunteers to C.M.R. is looking forward to some of the downs. The Station fire of October, 2009 and assist with the rail recovery programme at benefits which will flow through and start to the de-railment earlier this year placed a Bandiana. If you enjoy work in the fresh air in become evident later in the year. Among the significant strain upon all at Management level country surroundings with a terrific team first of these will be the replacement of the and I acknowledge the help and assistance working with you, staying in comfortable Order-in-Council under which the Railway from everyone within to restore operations accommodation, sharing home cooked meals operates over Government-owned land, by a within an incredibly short period of time. and enjoying good company, this is for you. Lease which is a more up to date document That the station was restored to a high and Remember there are petrol and and which greatly simplifies the terms and completely professional standard by Victrack accommodation subsidies for members and if conditions upon which we operate. With the and their contractors is a credit to them. The you are available, please contact Art Lynch on introduction of both of these items of team of our volunteers who recovered the de 5470 5395 or 0427 705395 before 8.00 pm legislation, the sector generally has had -railed carriages and worked extremely hard on weekdays to offer your services. invaluable assistance from officers from the to restore the track to operable condition so Department of Transport (now Public that services could resume on the Sunday In conclusion, I thank all members for their Transport Victoria) and Transport Safety following the incident, are deserving of high support over the last few years and look Victoria, and while the changes promoted by praise. forward to seeing you around the Railway. the Acts have at times being challenging, the August 2012 Page 3 President’s Column This is my first written communication to by Michael Vines need to maintain our locomotive fleet, in members via the newsletter upon me being particular our steam engines, goes without elected as president of the VGR at our AGM saying and important to this is completion of in Maldon on the 18th of August 2012. I want the restoration of J549. We must also to use this particular article to introduce continue the good relationship we have myself to some members who will not know developed with our friends at Steamrail (and me terribly well and to also provide some Seymour for that matter) which will involve edited and paraphrased parts of the speech I the use of some of their engines on our line gave at the AGM. For those members who (there has been K190 recently and we expect attended the AGM I acknowledge that it was that K190 may well return at some stage later somewhat difficult for me and others to be this year).We must present our railway well properly heard in the venue at the Maldon to all that visit and I am keen to implement a Hotel because of another function occurring program to repaint our existing operating in the room we had to share! carriages and keep them clean. By way of introduction I am shortly to turn At the conclusion of what I said at the AGM I 55 years of age. Amanda and I have been talked about what I see as two concepts married for 30 years. We have four adult inherent in our railway which sit side by side. children (3 daughters and a son) aged from 26 There is the fantastic heritage aspect of the down to 18. We live in Ocean Grove (about VGR, a railway built at the height of a gold 2 hours drive from Maldon and on the rush in 1884 from Castlemaine to Maldon. It Bellarine Peninsula) and our children have all is without doubt a most unique and an grown up in the area. We also have a important example of the branch line era in weekender at Maldon opposite the line about Victoria. We will never lose sight of the a mile from the station. I am a lawyer by heritage which is ours to nurture as ongoing occupation (please do not hold that against the ARHS. I remember going on many railfan custodians of the railway. The other concept me!) and have been in practice now for nearly trips with him over the years and one of the is of course the need to operate our railway 32 years. My legal practice is called Vines first was a trip behind A2 986 to Altona and as an effective business in the tourism Lawyers and is based in Ocean Grove. Whilst Sunshine in 1963 just before she was retired. industry. We must attract customers and we my wife is a full time school teacher she is I am a current member of most of the must strive to increase our passenger also a lawyer and holds a current practising societies including the ARHS, ARE, LRRSA numbers.
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