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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 3, Issue 10 (May 1, 1929.)

The Links Unseen

The Links Unseen.

It is generally known that the New Zealand Railways have carried during the last two years 52 million people without one fatality.

To make this possible the signals must be kept in page 26 good working order, the lines watched continuously day and night, and the very latest and best apparatus used. Therefore there are only skilled workmen executing railway work on the lines or in the workshops.

In the roaring noise of the Railway Workshops rivets are hammered into great boilers and the locomotives assembled. Only the best of everything is used in these iron steeds, and by this means is safety ensured.

At the railway office new timetables are prepared to meet the changing demands of the different classes of the public, and at the stations these timetables are carried out.

Altogether there are over eighteen thousand five hundred people employed in the operation of the services.

These are the links unseen which go to make up our efficient system of national transport.