AN ELECTRIC RAILWAY.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1182, 24 May 1884, Page 2

AN ELECTRIC RAILWAY.

The following account of an electric rajlway, on which tha extraordinary speed of 200 miles per hour is to be attained, ib given in the British Trade Journal : —'A | working model of Danchell's electric railway is on view at Union Court Chambers, Old Broad street. This railway system is designed in the meantime for the carriage only of letters, parcels, and light freight at a high rate of speed, hut capable, if the inventor's hopes are not too sanguine, of being adapted some daj' to passenger traffic. The train runs on one rail, and is prevented from falling off by its connection with another rail overhead, which also conveys the electric current to the motor. The construction is designed with a view of reducing friction to a minimum. The extraordinary speed of ]SO to 200 miles an hour is aimed at by the inventor. In these circumstances the desire to fully test the working of the system as a post and parcel railway before adapting it to passenger service will be fully appreciated by all classes of travellers, nervous and otherwise. Wu may, however, look forward some day to coming in the morning to business in the city fro'n the wilds of Wales or from a snug village on the borders of a Highland lake. To lunch at Manchester, dine at Newcastle-on-Tyne, theatre in town in the evening, nnd home to a quiet cousihy residence in Cornwall, will in the hapny days to come b<? nothing out of the common.'