IRON RAILS V. STEEL RAILS.
Some leading men connected with the NorthKastern Railway Company, recently, in Cleveland, have made a statement of great importance to railway interests, and also to the iron trade throughout the. -world. It seems now to bo certain that the experiments which have been carried on by Mr. T. L. Bell, M.P., at the instance of the NorthEastern Railway Company, and which were some time since hopefully spoken of by the chairman of that company, Mr. Leeman, for the production of a cheap and durable iron rail, have been singularly successful. It is confidently affirmed that iron rails, more durable than steel rails, can bo produced by a new process, at a much less cost and at a price but £1 per ton iu excess of ordinary rails. Considering that steel rails, when worn Out, are worth little, and that this now rail will be worth two-thirds o£ its original value for reconversion, the long-agitated question of iron t>. steel would seem to he determined. ' I
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XIV, Issue 4749, 5 February 1877, Page 3
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