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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 14, Issue 8 (November 1939)

“Confidence Abounds in Britain.”

“Confidence Abounds in Britain.”

On the occasion of the celebration of a century of colonisation in New Zealand, Home railway folk send greetings and congratulations to their colleagues in the Little Britain across the seas. Stirring times are these, and by no means unexpected is the wonderful spirit of comradeship displayed throughout the Empire today, demonstrating the absolute determination of the whole of our peace-loving peoples to resist to the uttermost the use of brute force to destroy national and individual independence.

For the Home railways, the past weeks have proved particularly strenuous. Coolly and efficiently, however, the four group lines are meeting the many demands made upon their equipment and staffs, illustrating clearly the extreme reliability of railway transport under the most exacting conditions. Government calls on transport have naturally been considerable; holidaymakers in their thousands have been quickly conveyed by rail back to their homes; armaments traffic has claimed attention on the freight side; and out of London and the other big cities the railways have speedily and smoothly carried elderly people, women and children to safer spots in the country. Despite the difficulties of the situation, there was nowhere anything approaching panic. To-day, confidence abounds in Britain.