BRITISH RAILWAYS.
Large Expenditure Upon Lines. British Official Wireless. RUGBY, December 13. It is announced that the £240,000 replacement and improvement proposals for 1934 of the London, Midland and Scottish Railway Company follow constantly improving traffic returns on the British railways in recent months and are an indication of increasing confidence. The company proposes to order 159 locomotives and boilers, 675 carriages, 5365 waggons and 8000 tons of steel rails to renew 500 miles of permanent way. This follows recent orders for 2000 freight waggons suitably designed for high speed work, and 1500 new locomotives. Since its formation in 1923 the company will have spent £100,000,000, or the equivalent of a quarter of its issue of capital, on re-equipment and improvements. These include 2500 locomotives, 129,500 waggons and 1,000,000 tons of rails. As part of the efficiency programme, types of locomotives in the company’s service have been reduced from 393 to 204, while the number of superheated locomotives has been increased by 2000, or more than doubled. The London and North-Eastern Railway has placed orders for 3480 tons of cast-iron per-manent-way chairs.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 945, 15 December 1933, Page 1
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