The Victorian Railways Department is making notable improvements in the speed and comfort of railway transport and as its example is being followed by other States, luxurious railway compartments will soon travel on the interstate lines. A new conception of silence, smoothness and rushing speed on rails was given Australians when the blue and gold Sydney Limited, which will be know future as "Spirit of Progress glided from the Newport Government workshops, where it was entirely built by Australian technicians, for its first test run. In this magnificent new train the Railways Commissioners have eclipsed anything on rails in the Southern Hemisphere. It is air conditioned, streamlined, built of Corton alloy steel, and is the acre of comfort. is frankly admitted to be the answer of the Railways to the challenge of air transport. On the attractiveness to interstate trippers of "this £190,000 train hangs largely the fate of long distance passenger rail travel in Australia. It is not surprising therefore to find inside the steel walls the pick of the best features of the best trains in the world. Money was not spared to make the challenge to air travel unanswerable in comfort and safety, Months of experiment and skilled effort were spent and help of experts in scores of branches was sought to make the train a notable achievement. During the last years, 150.000.000 passengers have been carried on the Victoria Railways without the loss of a single life in an accident.
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