RAILWAY CONSTRUCTION PROGRAMME
BRITISH COMPANY TO SPEND £5.250,000 ■ Human ' orncuL. wiaiuass.! RUGBY, August 7. Next year’s construction programme of the London, Midland, and Scottish Railway Company, involving an expenditure of £3,250,000, will bring big orders to many British industries. The programme provides for 105 locomotives, including several of the Princess Royal type, the most powex-fui engines on the system, 210 locomotive boilers, 751 carriages, and 12,105 waggons. Including the present programme, the company will have spent £66,000,000 on roiling stock in the 13 years since Its formation. •
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21857, 10 August 1936, Page 12
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