OIL-ELECTRIC TRAIN
LONDON TO BIRMINGHAM
EXPRESS TIME SCHEDULE
RUGBY,, February 14. The first oil-eleatric train :to run'on a British main line to strict express schedule timing travelled between London and Birmingham, on the Lon-don-Midland and Scottish line, today. It covered the journey of 113 miles in just over two hours. - The train is fitted with a 150 brake horse-power Armstrong-Whitworth Diesel electric motor. This is a self-con-tained unit, generating its own electric power from an oil engine. It is capable of maintaining a speed of 65 miles an hour. The total fuel and oil costs were only 0.8 of a penny a mile. ' <
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 39, 16 February 1933, Page 11
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103OIL-ELECTRIC TRAIN Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 39, 16 February 1933, Page 11
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