THE OLD RAILWAY ENGINES.
AND THE GOVERNMENT VARIETY. One of the old Manawatu Company's locomotives put up a very good record yesterday with .the New Plymouth express on its .way to Wellington. Sidetracked for, a quarter of an hour at Longburn, waiting for the Main Trunk express, the New Plymouth train left the station at i p.m. and (inclusive of at least half a dozen stops, including fivo minutes at Otaki) it managed to reel off the fifty-seven-mile run to Paekakariki in two hours. It is estimated that the etoppage. absorbed fully fifteen minutes, so that the. journey was accomplished at considerably over thirty miles an hour. At Paekakariki, however, the old Mar.awatu locomotive was replaced by one of tho new Government engines, and the run in to Wellington, twenty-seven miles, was done in one hour seventeen minutes. The train'arrived eighteen minutes late. It is generally considered by regular travellers ;that,' allowing for stops, the fastesj; times .on the Palmerston-Welling-ton line are accomplished by the New Plymouth express.
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Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1077, 16 March 1911, Page 5
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