BRITISH RAILWAYS
X f TREMENDOUS WAR TASKS CARRIED ON IN SPITE OF LOSSES. ELIMINATION OF NEEDLESS TRAVEL. (By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, Noon.) LONDON, July 31. British railways have announced that enemy action has resulted in a loss of fifty passenger trains since the outbreak of war. This is one reason why the public are asked to eliminate unnecessary travel. In addition, 95,000 railwaymen have joined the fighting forces. Twenty thousand goods and munitions trains are running weekly and a thousand extra trains are daily transporting Government and factory workers, while over a hundred trains daily are carrying troops.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 1 August 1942, Page 4
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