SMOKE NUISANCE

Evening Post, Volume CIV, Issue 76, 27 September 1927, Page 11

SMOKE NUISANCE

PROBLEM AT vTHORNDdN

USB OF: SMOKELESS-P.DEL:

In the vicinity of tlie'Thbrndpnloco-': motive depot and in other I'parts. of< the' Dominion; the smoke:nuisance'has been a: very difficult- prolilem f or, spine* years;' •and has caused a good!'deal :tif'•■com--plaint. Every reasonable'step Kasb'een taken, says'the Eailivay's Statement, in an endeavour toreduce"the .."trouble," but the large .amount of ; expeiiditure' involved.has precluded the pbssib;lity of absolutely avoiding' inconvenience. Higher chimneys have been erected, .in many cases, and as.muciismoko as'gpsT sible aireeted thrbiigh the : miiin';stack. ,Gonsi(le.raltioh has been giyen 'also to. the' practicability; of t ' removing 'the -'4^ pots to other lpcaiiti.eSjb'u.t'the esiimat-'

eel expense lias been; ioo igreat;:' ' - •■" In v ptlier. countries,'' ■■ s tates;. '■ the' Minister^,inVhis. '*l!'saw, '..tfie, most modern equipment, !\yhieh is. satis-: faotory^sq far as the: main sinokbVst'acKs are concerned;' but. thb< difficulty.-still persists'in tho.case of.locomotives that; are ; fired outside .the sheds, • which lat-' te'r practice is'; quite conimonanliyin-' deed unavoidable. VI noticed; ;howeyer, that at tlie" mairi".rair\vay ■ sta<;ions: in' London the s'mbjie; liursancsV^as' iioii-: existent, ..■ and I; ivas Btruci';"by' '■ 'the" possibility of ■■using"?sniok"eles3, fuel -iiv^ the preparation of engines ut' our inaiuf depots. If BOine kind of; smokeless fuel is found practicable,' I"-;feel'ssure:-thatv the absence of smoke' and "soot' will I

mako railway travel m the Dominion much more" comfortable for tho': travel-

ling public, besides giving relief from a veiy real cause for complaint to those lesidents living 111 «lose prox unity to iaih\ay locomotive depots Thcie are sevenl kinds of smokeless fuel under consideration at the present time, with which exhaustive tests are being omried out to asceitain their possibilities both for general purposes and for the more restricted use at loco

motive depots "