RADIO AND THE RAILWAYS.

Wairarapa Daily Times, 8 December 1926, Page 4

RADIO AND THE RAILWAYS.

Radio is being put into practical opceation in regard to railways in various parts of the world. The Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul railway has put into operation a plan of iadio communication for the control of trains on its service. It is stated that this will ensure absolute safety, even when storms, blizzards, and other • atmospheric disturbances paralyse ordinary means of communiation aipon which railways are dependent. For instance, : failure of a railway’s telegraphic system means that train progress is stopped on the section affect ed, until the break is repaired. Ibis will be impossible under the radio system, as its operation will ensure the establishment of air communication at all times with every point on The system from Chicago to Beattie, a distance of 2000 miles. The. Canadian National Railways' has also in operation a system which ensures wireless communication between trains anil wireless stations during the complete journey from the Atlantic- to the Pacific, as well as on the subsidiary systems, which stretch to 'the north and south of the main trunk lines. British railways, and some of the German and French railways, are also experimenting with radio to facilitate the management and control of their respective systems. No serious experiments in the adaptation of radio to railway communications have as yet' been carried out in New Zealand, but it is evident from what is happening in other parts of the world, that the use of wireless on the Dominion railway system is merely a matter of time. *