RAILWAY SPEED-UP
OIL-DEIVEN UNITS HALF COST OF STEAM TRAINS . LONDON, February 11. The London, Midland, and Scottish Railway Company is testing a new oildriven railway coach which it hopes to utilise in a big speed-up which will perhaps give half a dozen trains daily to Scotland, each carrying 200 people jnstead of two steam trains with 600 each. Each coach carries 50 to 100 passengers, has rubber tires, a maximum speed of 90 miles an hour, and great i power of acceleration. The running costs of these light units are only half those of the ordinary trains.
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Evening Post, Issue 36, 12 February 1935, Page 9
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97RAILWAY SPEED-UP Evening Post, Issue 36, 12 February 1935, Page 9
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