MODERN RAILWAY ENGINES
LIMIT OF SIZE BEACHED. By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright LONDON, October 20. The North-Western Railway Company has been testing locomotives utilising Buper-heated steam instead of cylinders on the compound principle. This is being done with a view to avoiding a further increase in the size of engines, which threaten to become too large for the tunnels. The new locomotives averaged sixty miles an hour between Euston and Crewe stations.
Probably the cable refers to the combination of steam super-heating with the singlecylinder principle. Engines fitted with superheaters are being built in New Zealand. The latest development in locomotive engineering in England is the use Of the steam turbine with which electricity is generated on the locomotive and then used as the motive power. A full sized .turbineelectric locomotive was recently completed by one of the groat English railway companies, and underwent successful trials both for speed and haulage power.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7265, 22 October 1910, Page 5
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