SAFER RAILWAYS.

Press, Volume LXIV, Issue 19462, 8 November 1928, Page 11

SAFER RAILWAYS.

. -» ■ TEST'S WITH tfEW DEVICE; (uitttiD'' piisss EfcECTMid ' TlJtilOßAfcfi—cdptßlGHT.) LONDON, Novembp 8. _ British railway officials are investigating a new system, which it is claimed would make accidents almost By .elirdinaiirlg tile human element. It is stated that an adaptation of an invisible fray, which has been„ Used with Uncanny success as a. burglar alarm*., has achieved .this. Chief .railway officials witnessed a.number of demonstrations on model tracks. They saw trains stbtiped by the ray, which was. projected from the permanent way, causing the application of the brakes Furthermore the headlights were lit and fixtingliishM as" the trains' bhtered &M .left tunnels. , . ; . , 4 .. , One of the chief attractions is that the ray penetrates ice, fog, and snow. For electrified lines the Bearii does the additional work of cutting oft the current atitomatic&lty and releasing it when the 1 line is cMr ahead: It .is stated that the srsteiti U eccjhoniical arid cheap, to Inittill. The ileces.t*pwer can be obtained frdin. a single,wire along the existing poles.— United Se'rvice.