BRITISH RAILWAYS
SUMMER ARRANGEMENTS AUGMENTED SERVICES British Wireless RUGBY, May The railway services in Britain will be greatly augmented for the summer to cope with a number of foreign visitors, Another object is to meet the demands arising from the progressive revival of industrial activity for fast trains connecting business centres.
NEW EXPRESS STARTS
THE CORONATION SCOT British "Wireless RUGBY. May 26 The Loudon, Midland and Scottish [Railway Company's new streamlined express train, the Coronation Scot, made its first appearanco as a complete unit to-day. The engine is the first of five locomotives of this type which will draw the Coronation Scot on its 400 miles
journey between London and Glasgow in six- and n-half hours. It weighs more than 160 tons and is expected to draw a train weighing 297 tons at a epeed of moro than 100 miles an hour.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22740, 28 May 1937, Page 12
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