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Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 129, 3 June 1922, Page 7

One of the large type A.B. engines recently imported from England arrived in New. Plymouth during the week on a trial run with a Roods train with a full schedule load consisting of timber, boulders, and general merchandise. The train ran well to time right through, and it was reported that the engine had no difficulty in negotiating the steep inclines from Wnnganui to Westmere and the Waitotara bank. Tho drivers (says the Tiiranaki Herald) speak very highly of this class of engine, which should prove a decided acquisition to the running of the mail and other trains out of New Plymouth. ■ The (turntables have been altered at New Plymouth and Haweva to enable the engines, to bo turned, and it is anticipated they will be brought into use in a few weeks. If they are used in the mail train the caa-riages will then be heated by steam, the necessary alterations having been made' to the carnages to enable this to be done. The Herald is not in a position to say whether the introduction of the A.B. engines will enable tho trains to be speeded up at all. This is a- question which depends to a very large extent on the number of stops that can be cut out en route. " ■. .■