Concern for safety has always been an important part of railway life. When the first train service began in 1855, every engineman, fireman, guard, gatekeeper, pointsman, policemen and platelayer was required to sign the last page of his ‘Rule Book’, agreeing to observe and obey the rules.

Ambulance Ave (along the front of the Parcel Post Office which are now the Medina Apartments) is an example of the railway industry’s earliest commitment to safety. The horse-drawn 1880’s ambulances were a railway service and in the 1920’s and 1930’s when motorised ambulances were first introduced, many of the volunteer ambulance drivers were often off-duty railway men.