RAILWAY ENGINES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 65, 18 March 1938, Page 6

RAILWAY ENGINES.

Having travelled in many countries. 1 have (vfU'ii u iiiiiKtc I why "iir railway engine*, induing liv their outside arc about the \vorW'> worst. In Lngkvnd they a 'pride in th-e out.~:de appearance of their railjwav engines, and they go out highly polished land looking very -mart, and the same thing | it- evident in other countries. Our eivriniw [look a< though they have never licen clcanod 'outride -in<-e they were made. Other countries 'have to contend v'.th tunnels, etc hut r-Xill keep their engine- looking wmart ami in l.ecp.in jr with i lie I'c-i of the train. It c-eein- to me that here ir- a (dialiee for the employment of several men who may now Ik- unemployed. It gives n l«id impression to tourists and al-o local people to r-ec the carriages on our trains, looking well groomed, with a smoke-primed engine hauling them. 1 am sure the engine driver* would take a pride in a well-groomed engine, just as a car owner likes to have his ear looking smart and well polished. JOHN PHILLIPS;.