VETERAN DRIVER
AUSTRALIAN RAILWAYS BADGE PRESENTED BY DUKE Senior locomotive driver in the New South Wales Government Railways, Mr. R. Ferguson arrived from Sydney by the Aw a tea yesterday to spend a holiday in the Dominion and also to eee something of New Zealand's railway system. Mr. Ferguson has been driving locomotives for the past 32 years, and is at present on the fastest service in New South Wales, from Sydney to Newcastle.
Mr. Ferguson wears on the lapel of his coat a badge presented to him by the Duke of Gloucester, when Mr. Ferguson drove the locomotive drawing the Duke's train from Newcastle to Werris Creek, New South Wales. The back of the badge bears the following inscription:—"Presented by H.R.H., the Duke of Gloucester, tour 1934-30." The Sydney-Newcastle run was a, distance of 104 miles, which the express covered in two hours 18 minutes, said Mr. Ferguson. In parts the express reached a speed of 70 miles an hour. In various parts of New South Wales a good deal was being done by the Government to straighten curves in the tracks.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVI, Issue 23319, 12 April 1939, Page 13
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