BIG ORDERS FOR RAILWAYS

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVII, Issue 19673, 15 December 1933, Page 9

BIG ORDERS FOR RAILWAYS

EVIDENCE OF RETURN OF CONFIDENCE PERSIA’S BIG PURCHASE IN BRITAIN Brltlsb Official Wireless (Received December 14, 5.5 p.m.) RUGBY, December 13. It is announced that £240,000 replacement and improvement proposals for 1934 by the London, Midland and Scottish Railways Company, follows the constantly improving traffic returns of British railways in recent months, and is an indication of increasing confidence. The company proposes to order 159 locomotives and boilers, 675 carriages, 5,365 waggons, 8000 tons of steel rails to renew 500 miles of permanent way. This follows the recent orders for 2000 freight waggons suitably designed for the new high speed service, arid 1,500 new locomotives. Since its formation in 1923, the company will have spent £100,000,000, or the equivalent of a quarter of its issue capital on re-equipment and improvements. These include 2,500 locomotives, 129,500 waggons, and a million tons of rails, as part of the company’s increased efficiency programme. The types of locomotives in the company's service have been reduced from 393 to 204, while the number of superheated have increased by 2000, or more than doubled. The London and North-Eastern Railway has placed orders for 3,480 tons of cast iron permanent way chairs. PERSIAN ORDER GOES TO BRITAIN. TRIBUTE TO DEVELOPMENT OP COUNTRY. British Offlclil Wireless (Received December 14, 5.5 p.m.) RUGBY, December 14. Several large orders for covered railway vans for the Persian railway have been secured by the British firm of Metropolitan Cammell Carriage, Waggon and Finance Company. In a leading article, "The Times” pays a tribute to the evolution of modern Persia, under the vigorous leadership of the Shah, from its previous state of dangerous and turbulent feudalism.