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by Mark Tronson

January-February 2010
Summary
Mark Tronson, the Footplate Padre, has looked at the timetables for the new fast train systems out of London to Paris and Brussels, and has noted (as have many European passengers) that is by far quicker to go by train than to fly.
But Australian train passengers already knew that this was ‘old news’. During the 1950s, the phenomenon that was 'The Spirit of Progress', carrying passengers from Melbourne to Albury-Wodonga was even back then, quicker than flying.
M V Tronson says, that because something new comes along, it does not mean that what went before becomes redundant; as illustrated by the diesel being unable to improve on the S Class steam engine's timetable when hauling the ‘Spirit of Progress’.
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Mark Tronson was on the footplate 1967-77 and has since written 16 books of ‘Footplate Yarns’. He is a Baptist Minister, and since 1984, has been the
Australian cricket chaplain (Team chaplain to 2000, then ‘Life After Cricket’ from 2001).


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