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home / archives / 1981 / 24th June

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In the bitterly cold Melbourne winter of 1981 proposed cuts to suburban and country rail services had seen over 80,000 people sign public petitions to the government. A few days before the unions had withdrawn 20 trains from service as a tangible protest.