WORKING MODEL

Waikato Independent, Volume XL, Issue 3670, 20 February 1940, Page 2

WORKING MODEL

NEW ZEALAND RAILWAYS INTEREST AT EXHIBITION Visitors to the Centennial Exhibition. at Wellington have found the working model of the New Zealand Railways one of the most fascinating sections. Some ten chains of railway line wander throughout the landscape, done in. relief with mountains, lakes and rivers, on which express, mixed, timber and electric trains run. Tunnels, viaducts, bridges, level crossings and stations are all done to scale, and the "electric -models operated from a kind of signal box with more than a score of levers and many buttons, work on. exactly the same principle as on the Dominion system. The guard’s and engine whistle herald the start of a train, at level crossings the' usual automatic de- ‘ vices signal the approach of the train, which meanders throughout the landscape over flowing water and past lakes and waterfalls to its destination. Signals, Complete in every detail down to red, orange and green lights, control the progress of each train, and it is vastly entertaining to see a working model of the “Limited” slow down and stop on a siding before a red light and several seconds later see a goods or other train emerge from a tunnel and pass. Not until the orange and then the green lights show does the train move off, and then only when the customary signals between guard and engine driver are given.

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