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RAILWAY IN THE ANDES LOCOMOTIVES FROM BRITAIN Locomotives to cross the Ancles over the highest railway line in world arc to be made in Great Britain. They are for the Central Railway of Peru, the summit of which is 15,SO6 feet above sea level the greatest height of any standard gauge railway anywhere. The line lias 41 bridges, 61 tunnels and 13 reversing stations. It twists up the Andes for 74 miles of practically 1 in 25 grade. Here each oi the two locomotives about to 'be made in Britain will take a load ot from 350 to 400 tons. They are 2-8-0 engines of general utility type for passenger and goods trains, with tenders arranged for oilburning and weighing 174 tons each. Nine such engines, specially rljesigncd for the extremely severe conditions, have been supplied to the Central Railway and three similar units to the Southern Railway ot Peru. The latest order will make a total of fourteen ordered by' Peru in the last years, apart from four huge articulated locomotives for goods service.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 4, Issue 132, 23 July 1941, Page 2
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