SYDNEY UNDERGROUND TRAINS
i- visitors to Sydney from New Zealand (taring. Christmas time will bo ablo to enjoy what to most of them will probably be the novel experience of travelling beneath a city's surface in electric trains. The underground city railway is expocted to carry its first passengers on 20th December. The underground trains will run only as far as the first station, St. James, but it will be a novel experience nevertheless for Australians and visitors from the Dominion who have not.been to England or America. It is anticipated that during the rush hours trains will pass out o£ it every four minutes or so. One of the big drapery emporiums will have something to thank the underground for, as travellers by it will emerge practically at its door. It will bo an epochal day for Sydney when the first passengers stop from the underground train at St. James, in fne heart of the city.
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Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 137, 7 December 1926, Page 9
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157SYDNEY UNDERGROUND TRAINS Evening Post, Volume CXII, Issue 137, 7 December 1926, Page 9
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