BLUE EXPRESSES
PAST MOUNTAIN TRAINS N.S.W. RAILWAY MOVE SYDNEY, October'2s. _ New South Wales Government Railways executives have caught the color complex. Their latest announcement concerns the projected use of blue oppresses on the. Blue Mountains run. Theso gaily colored trains will *>c. according to official claims, the fastest mountain trains in the world. The firs. blue train -tiie. Jenolau express, mainly for use by travellers lo "tin 1 Caves'will run from Sydney to Mount Victoria in two hours 20 minutes.
It will stop only at live stations, and on many stretches it is scheduled to reach a speed of (>0 miles an hour. In a few instances thai speed will be exceeded.
The train will consist of five light carriages, with seats luxuriously covered in patterned moquetto, drawn by a super-heated locomotive, and will run only once a day—there and back. On the same date as the now Blue Train stalls, two now fast expresses each way will commence running between Sydney and Newcastle. These will cut the present journey by at least half an hour so far as other expresses are concerned, and by more than an hour in the ease of the ordinary fast trains.
Introduction of these new expresses to the New South Wales service is an indication «that the department is beginning to that the only way to meet bus competition is to w.ean back tho railway travellers by giving them speed, ami above all—comfort.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LV, Issue 17099, 4 November 1929, Page 11
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