MOTOR TRAINS IN VICTORIA.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVII, Issue 13672, 4 May 1912, Page 5

MOTOR TRAINS IN VICTORIA.

SATISFACTORY TRIALS. Press Association.—Telegraph.—Copyright Received Mav 4, 9.10 a.m. ’ MELBOURNE, May 4. Satisfactory trials have been made of two motor trains imported by the RailwaCommissioners. They developed a speed of sixty miles an hour.

TRANSCONTINENTAL LINE. It has not yet been actually decided (says the Argus) that infernal combustion engines shall be used on the transcontinental railway line to Western Australia As their use. would be t-!ie means of .saving, a largo expenditure in the provision of water for the generation of steam for ordinary locomotives, there is no doubt that the new type oh engine will he adopted, * ~

The consulting (Air 11. Deane) is confident that sufficient power will be generated by these ehgi(46k to carry the traffic. The oil engine that he has recommended for use is one thaT will generate electricity as the motive power. Mr Deane has inspected the two AlcKeon motor railway cars purchased by the Victorian Railway Department, and he is of opinion that they are suitable for a certain class of traffic. It would not bo advisable, however he thinks, to make them up into a trans-coutinenta! train, the carriages of which should he so constructed that a conductor would be ahjo to pass from ouejmd of the traiu to,.the other. Each Alelvoen car is complete in itself, carrying the engines at the front.