STEAM TRACTION
REPLACEMENT UNLIKELY. "Unless ihere is some revolutionary development, in either Diesel 6r electric locomotives that would warrant their introduction on majrt railway lines in England, the steam engine will not be, replaced for many yeirs." said Sir Jc-siah Stamp, cEairrnan of
directors of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway Company, in an interview in Auckland. . Exceot on suburban lines in various parts of England, said Sir Josiah, there was no prospect 'in the near future of electric locomotives displacing steam for, with the enormous coal resources and favourable grades as well as the marked improvement, in steam locomotives in the past five or six years, neither Diesel nor electric traction could compare with them-
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19555, 10 February 1938, Page 7
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116STEAM TRACTION Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19555, 10 February 1938, Page 7
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