Melbourne Faced With Another Transport Crisis
'(Rec. 9.15 a.m.) — MELBOURNE, April -45. Another transport crisis has developed on the Melbourne railways. The commissioners have stopped ail metropolitan. electric train services following the extension of the .inetai trades dispute to the railway" power house, where , 100 engineers;- 1 were called out on strike by the Amalgamated Engineering Union.. Country trains. are not affected.' Trams are still .running, and fit is unlikely that they will be involved in the dispute. The electric trains normally.Gcarry several hundred thousand passengers to and from work daily. These-people now have to find other means of transport, and this is placing a.heavy burden on the trams, but emergency bus services are helping to -relieve the position. -4 The Melbourne troubles were accentuated by the decision of- the waterside workers to hold a-24-hour stoppage to consider whethex' they Would use the emergency transport co get to work. This delayed the unloading of a colliei' and gas rationing was immediately introduced to avert a complete gas black-out.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 16 April 1947, Page 7
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