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Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27643, 27 April 1955, Page 16

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24 hours of service every day The white frosts of mornings record the railways goes on. Each year they carry 23 million footprints of railway workers going home to passengers and 10 million tons of freight. Alone bed ... men who have toiled through the night they move as much freight as all other forms of to keep the trains rolling... men of the footplate, transport combined ... greater tonnages for guards, signalmen; and station agents ending longer distances than any other individual mode their lonely vigil at small trackside stations. of transport —1,236,000,000 ton-miles per year. There are girls, too who serve tea at welcome The railways also operate an efficient highways •topping places, ticket clerks, operators in the transport system... more than a thousand buses vital train control offices, and sure-footed shunters and trucks which annually carry upwards of 20 who make up trains in the busy marshalling yards. million passengers and large quantities of freight And behind the scenes are the men who keep ... a service which works well into the night the tracks clear, the signal lamps burning, the a «d begins again in the small hours of the communications intact... all are members of a morning. great army of 25,000 'skilful, dependable people. It’s a 24-hour job •• • keeping the railways open Night and day the never-ending task of our for business. IBHI i if V' '' BEW ZEALAND Transport System RAILWAYS