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Busy depots in the days of steam

Busy depots in the days of steam

In the days of steam on the New South Wales Government Railways young men initiated their career as Trainee Enginemen to becoming a Train Driver, and their role as a Trainee Engineman included cleaning the steam engine cabins, managing the turntable, oiling the steam engine's rods and motions and the like..

  • Many variables to learning quickly

    It has always been of interest and of scientific research as why is it that some of our young people whether they be interested in science or maths or literature or top sport pick things up quickly.

  • Internationals young writers marching leads Cycle 2

    The international young writers in Press Service International (PSI) continues to shine – having completed one full Cycle of 2018. 

  • Top of the tree – dilemmas galore

    As discussed in yesterday's article, Part 2 of this professional series, we looked at why women with children in Australia are the main contributors within the family unit – in that in our society, for practical and emotional reasons, women do most of the family-based caring – whether it be for children, elderly relatives or family members with a disability.

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    The 2018 young writer program with Press Service International in conjunction with Christian Today is well under way and into the second Cycle.

  • Australian leadership – women – Part 2

    Yesterday I finished up explaining that the Law in Australia and England also provides various ways in which a young person can forge a career.  If they stick to the face-to-face provision of services (usually in their own area of expertise), rather than staying with a firm of solicitors (large or small or medium-sized), they can develop their own private clientele, or they can become barristers and defend cases in court. 

  • Cornucopia of statistics – women in leadership

    Having been a teenager during the social changes of the 1960s, I assumed the girls in my class, as they chose their careers, would have equal opportunities with men.

  • Ramon Williams the Lion of religious media medically retires

    Ramon Williams 87 the Lion of 'religious media distribution' has medically retired.

  • Footplate Padre and the menagerie

    There are many remarkable stories of things that have happened to the astonishment of all those around them and in today's world, these would have been recorded on video for social media and the entertainment of us all.

  • Bushfires – across the nation

    Australia it seems has a third certainty apart from the old adage of taxes and death, and this is that every summer the nation experiences bush fires and inevitably homes are destroyed, burnt to the ground.

  • One Day in Melbourne on 19 May

    One Day in Melbourne for 2018 is on the 19 May. This is the 3rd annual One Day in Melbourne for mission publication editors, writers, designers, social media mavens, authors, bloggers, self-publishers.

  • Federal Court's ruling a bed fellow for itinerant evangelists

    This ruling has serious implications as the reader will soon realise. Some time ago a full bench decision of the Federal Court, as revealed in a Sydney Morning Herald, being injured while having sex when within a work environment is a work related injury and therefore claimable.