£190,000 TRAIN
(Received 18, 8.45 a.m.) MELBOURNE, Nov. 17. Three hundred passengers, guests of the Victorian Raihvays Commissiouers, to-day enojyed a trial run in the neW all-stcel expfess named "Spirit of Progress," which was built at a eost of £190,000. Tho train will be used on the Melboumo-AIbury section of the Sydney line. It reached a spOed to-day bf 80 miles an hour. Ail'-conditioned throughout, it proved a revelation in railway transport. After the ehi'istefling of tho train by the Preunef, Mr. A. A. Dunstan, the chairman of the commissiouers, Mr. H. w. Clapp, Said: "The train is the department's aiiswer to all other forms Of transport. It is a great pioneering work of railroading in Austrqlia. It is the finest train in Australia, ranking with the best in the world," Passengers were delighted with the interior silence, tlie pleasant temperature and luxurious furnishings.
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 47, 18 November 1937, Page 5
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