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Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 129, 3 June 1922, Page 6

f-An articulated train put in service recently by the Great Northern Bailway of England, consists of five cars mounted on six four-wheeled trucks, there being a truck at each, end and one under each of the short vestibuled connections between the cars. A 40ft kitchen car is at the middle of the train, with a 55ft coach1 at one end and a third-class dining car and coach at the other end. All cooking is done by electricity.. This train is for a four-hour run between London and Leeds, making a round, trip daily. The purpose of the design is to reduce deadweights. Thus, the train k 246 ft long, accommodates 128 passengers, and weighs 118 tons- on 12 axles. The ordinary train previously uaed consisted of four cars 60ft and 65ft long, of which the two dining cars (with kitchen in one car) had six wheel trucks. This older train was 256 ft long, accommodating only 110 passengers, and weighed 139 tans on 20 galas.