RADIO ON TRAINS.

Otago Witness, Issue 3773, 6 July 1926, Page 37

RADIO ON TRAINS.

SYDNEY-MELBOURNE EXPRESS. PASSENGERS MAY LISTEN-IN. SYDNEY, June 24. The railway chiefs are trying to inveet thai long train journey between Melbourne and Sydney with something of the spirit of dole® far nienle, and to substitute for the monotony of the trip something of the comfort of perfect idleness, by making a radio outfit one of the appointments of the express. Experiments with broadcasting receivers on long train journeys have already proved successful, and it will be only a few weeks before the passengers on the Sydney-Melbourne ex* press will be able to listen-in, if they wish to do so, while thundering along at 60 miles an hour. This will appeal especially te Victorians, for listening-in appears to be fax more popular among them than among the publio of New South Wales, where wireless is suffering something of a slump. Wireless shops in Sydney to-day are as few as they were numerous in the days when one stood a chance of being socially ostracised In bis suburb if he did not have a wireless set. The fact that the framophone has not lost its vogue in Sydney is evidonoed by ths countless shops within the city Itself which do nothing but sell machines and records.