CHAOS IN MELBOURNE
RAIL WAY MEN’S ONE-DAY STRIKE Melbourne, Aug. 28. Chaos prevailed in Melbourne’s transport system and throughout the State during to-day’s one-day strike of railwaymen. The only two trains which ran in Victoria were expresses from Adelaide and Sydney, which left those capitals the previous night and continued their journeys to Melbourne Thousands arrived in the city late for work this morning, as 300.000 passengers who are usually carried by electric suburban trains were forced to find other means of transport. Many hitchhiked. walked, cycled or used- thencars, but most walked to the nearest tramline which in many cases was miles from their homes.
Trams hopelessly overloaded were banked up for miles along St. Kilda Road and the other main routes as the tramway authorities were unable to provide extra trams and buses to cope with the huge traffic. For the evening rush from the city the position was much worse than in the morning. Vast crowds surged on all the trams leaving the city. Amid all the chaos huge Flinders Street Station with its 11 platforms which normally handle suburban train traffic stood silent and deserted.
At a meeting this morning railway men decided to resume to-morrow.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 80, 29 August 1945, Page 5
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