HIGH SPEED.

Auckland Star, Volume LVII, Issue 114, 15 May 1926, Page 8

HIGH SPEED.

l-! • S ON THE LIMITED EXPRESS, jf ! LONDON VISITOR'S FEAHS. Is l '- "A BIG SMASH SOME DAY" ly ■" ! (By Telegraph—Special to -Star.-) is DUXEDIX. this day. D { Statements concerning the hijrh speed 1, attained by the Limited express runj e ninjr between Wellington and Auckland .have been made from time to time. I v ] most cases tiles' , >tatenu-ius have been Lls made by visitors from overseas, and er they are supported by facts given to a p }[ reporter by Mr. A. H. Symer. of Lon- •; don, before he left Dunedin. Mr. Sytner, ll I who is head jf a leading lirni of. buyers er and shippers in London, lias travelled u> extensively. !ie •"There i- going to h,- a terrible smash a n on the Main Trunk line .-ome day." l, e ,(i .aid. "The -r.oi-d of the Limited express n( l i- far too great fftr safety. A smash will conic, ami it will probably be as dU- " m as the smash tlwt o.eurred on , il the South African lines >ome yoars ago, !le The Soutli Afiiftan liovernment was 00 taught a lesson as the result of that iir catastrophe, am! the of trains was c ! thereafter considerably reduced. It the "" New Zealand linvernment is wise it will l>tl reduce the speed of the Limited in cerllt 'jiaih places before a occurs." i Mr. Sytner also had some remarks to ed ; make in refrard to what he termed the tt. ' "v retched slcpiug berths" on the Main ;«■ Tnmk expresees. "There are twelve ter bertlis." he said, '"in each sleeping car, on and these are far from being comforthe able and not worth the 12/6 charged by lis j the G9vernment. r ' to i His chief complaint was in regard to jw top berth?. The?e. he stated, are very til heavily constructed, and are only held ?x- in position br a very light chain. There )n- was always a dancer of a link of a chain rs, breaking, and if that occurred the weight ific of the solid bunk and of the occupant ral would descend on the person underneath. 3,1 • Critics do not Agree, f" Mr. S. Barker, an English tourist, said γ-i" the other day: "The New Zealand railim * ways are miserable. It is impossible to [ a » enjoy the lovely country through which w they nass owing to the discomfort of the carriages." Place against that deunueiation the n(1 remarks of Mr. S. Xewbnry, a wealthy ;ef l American, as he was getting on a train :t . v >t Dunedin the other morning. Being ' p '' ' asked if he was comfortable, he an"I'm always comfortable on r *' I your New Zealand railways. It is one ls >' lof the few countries in the world in r ""' which you can reserve a compartment and be sure of ease and privacy. I like 0 'comfort, and don't mind paving for it, .tO and here T can pet something worth pay- ' ing for. I know about lunch at Oamam, or ! too. That's all right/ of . the