WELLINGTON-HUTT RAILWAY
NEW SENTINEL COACH. CAPTURING BUS TRAFFIC. /Fbom Oup. Own Correspondent.) WIJI.LINGTON, April 21. A new rail coach running on the Hull, line, capturing the bus traffic, is further evidence of the now spirit that has entered into the management of the Now Zealand railway:-. It has been in evidence, during the. past two days on the Wellington-Hult railway, on which there is now running a Sentinal Caminell rail coach. The. coach is driven by a cam engine of between 60 anil 70 horse-power. Superheated steam is supplied from a. vertical water tube boiler, burning coal or coke. The driver can operate, (he. coach from either end, (hero being dual control. The shell of the fail coach is steel throughout, and it has four wheel bogies, the front bogie, also forming the power unit. There is seating accommodation for 48 passengers and a compartment for light luggage. The car is electrically lit by the Slones system. The coach runs at 38 miles per hour on tho level and 45 miles on a down grade. Six trips per day each way are. made between Wellington and Rower Hntl, four of which are, extended to Moiling, a station two miles further on, where the coach now captures a good deal of traffic that formerly went by motor bus.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19461, 22 April 1925, Page 4
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