STREAMLINED TRAINS
Is lhe railways' answer (to the road) a streamlined, lightweight train? "It was seen in yesterday's "Evening Post," and about its challenge to" a place in passenger traffic there can he no doubt. There can also be no doubt that it is the result of many practical experiments, and the final check will be practical operation on various classes of railway track. It was to be expected that new principles .would be introduced on railways to resist competition, and, streamlining is the one,that seems to have come quickest to fruition. Various-other advances may also be made in the , character - and working of trains, in goods as well as in passenger traffic. But the most revolutionary change of A all would be a change not merely in train but in track. A train's limitation is not only wjiat it can dp. on rails, but where it can go. • Lacking some widening, of their own range of travel, railway systems must co-ordinate with rubber-tired traffic, perhaps evolving types of container to facilitate transhipment of certain goods. A
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Evening Post, Issue 56, 7 March 1934, Page 8
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177STREAMLINED TRAINS Evening Post, Issue 56, 7 March 1934, Page 8
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