RAILWAY REFORM.
TO THE BUITOB. Sir, Haring for some years performed the work of a Progress League, one becomes diffident when travelling in company with younger and more alert reformers.
Even in the early part of 1917 it was a certainty that there would be q. great coal famine. After vacillating for some time, on December 18. 1917, a letter was sent to tho Minister of Railways suggesting the feasibility of linking Lyttelton and the Huff—or a a least the cities. The hopeful anticipation was that the best engines could reach the south at night, the return jouniey being accomplished on the following day. This course would have (say) halved _ the coal collapse, while the mail service would be lessened without severance.
Tho always courteous Minister duly noted the suggestion. If the engine boilers, after cleansing, were filled with boiling water, steam might he obtained with increased rapidity. Reforms, once supported by the “Btar,” such as another tunnel, electrification of the present outlet, electric shunting engines, more expeditious touch with the ferry steamers, as well ns hollowed-out car sheds, would leave more space for carhandling.—l am, etc., J. H. NEWLYN. October 2, 1919.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 12761, 3 October 1919, Page 6
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193RAILWAY REFORM. Star (Christchurch), Issue 12761, 3 October 1919, Page 6
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