Our donated Southern Aurora train carriage arrived this morning and has now been carefully placed into position.
Thanks to everyone involved and to the community who came out to watch.
Helping Hands
Bruce Cumming, Gary Abley, Member for Indi Cathy McGowan and Rob Cumming
Member for Indi Cathy McGowan dropped in to see the progress on the commemoration gardens.
The Helping Hands garden is a way of signifying how people stepped forward to help each other, whether women or men, staff or passengers, whether voluntary or paid, or whether local or from far away.
Everyone did what they could.
Attending on the day information here
Ian MacDougall's "Violet Town" song
Ian MacDougall from Canberra will be attending and preforming his song ‘Violet Town’ written in the early 1970’s about the tragedy and the contribution of locals.
Ian will play both on Saturday evening and Sunday morning.
First ambulance to arrive at Southern Aurora crash
We are pleased to announce the first ambulance to arrive at the Southern Aurora crash in 1969 will be attending for the vintage emergency vehicles parade (from Sydney)
Now to find others! Local fire trucks on farms? Any ideas? So many came..
Please SHARE to help us find more
$100,000 Announced
$100,000 announced by Jaclyn Symes MLC today towards the Southern Aurora Commemoration gardens, paths, info etc. VERY exciting.
Good news! Please SHARE and LIKE
ARTC kindly volunteered time and muscle..
Nathan and his team from ARTC kindly volunteered their time and muscle to assemble the rails and sleepers for our Aurora Carriage, thanks heaps fellas.
Volunteers rule the world!!
Bruce
V/Line has donated Southern Aurora sleeper carriage
Great news to announce that VLine has donated a Southern Aurora sleeper Twinette carriage to our Memorial Gardens.
The VLine Board agreed recently to give it to the community. After transport, cleanup and initial restoration work can be arranged, the shiny stainless steel carriage will be a major feature in time for the events and formally 'launched,' along with the whole garden space near the Violet Town station on Sunday Feb 10.
For those who know about these things it is NAM 2337, built c1960 in Sydney, into service from 1962, a Twinette Sleeper Car, not involved in the collision.
