Australia Day 2013

[derekwarner_decoy]

Happy Australia Day to our OZ members

Some are fighting fires in Victoria ...some are fighting floods in Queensland

Best wishes & hope for you all..........Derek 

[Roderick Smith]

Derek beat me to an Australia Day message.  I have been posting to all my transport groups all day, with images of equipment/vehicles relevant to Australia Day.
26.1 is not only Australia Day, it is Independence Day (Republic Day) in India.

For your Australian reading: go to the search box, and search on PS Australien.  Somewhere in there is my father's photo of Australien on Lake Mulwala.  I am not finding it today, and won't repost, but here are two relevant messages:
www.paddleducks.co.uk/smf/index.php?topic=2384.msg9342#msg9342
www.paddleducks.co.uk/smf/index.php?topic=2384.msg9062#msg9062

For your India viewing, go to a post which I put up for 26.1.07
PS Yamuna (a Yarrow product):
www.paddleducks.co.uk/smf/index.php?topic=2675.msg10825#msg10825
and follow down for a shot of PS Gomati (also Yarrow):
www.paddleducks.co.uk/smf/index.php?topic=3291.msg14468#msg14468

Particularly for our worldwide readers, have some Australian humour for
Australia Day. Not everyone in the nation renders barbecue as 'barbie', but
most would render mosquito as 'mozzie' (I don't).
2012 Australia Day barbie from the lambassador:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=qRPTMxdU6O0

Roderick B Smith
Rail News Victoria Editor