RAILWAY FUELS
IMPORTANT TRIALS IN ENGLAND. Important trials with pulverised coal and "colloidal" fuels have beon carried out recently on the Great Central Railway, England. Colloidal fuel is powdered fuol suspended iu thick oil, and pulverised coal is dry coal reduced to a fine dust. The trials, which were made in comparison with ordinary coal, showed that tho special fuels could easily maintain a full head of steam with a high degreo of superheat, even on heavy gradients and sharp curves. Locomotives adapted for burning pulverised coal or colloidal fuel show an economical freedom from nshpan cleaning, siiioke-liox cleaning and repairs, lire cleaning, mid so on. Further, when tho locomotivo is delayed in a siding there is much loss waste of fuel than in the case of ordinary engines.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 249, 15 July 1920, Page 8
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129RAILWAY FUELS Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 249, 15 July 1920, Page 8
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