The Safety of Electrically Lighted Coaches.

Progress, Volume I, Issue II, 1 September 1906, Page 311

The Safety of Electrically Lighted Coaches.

An Inspecting Officer of the Board of Trade has called attention to the element of safety m railway travelling brought about by the adoption by the leading railways of Stone's system of electric lighting for railway coaches. An express of the Great Central Railway ran off the line m the Charwelton tunnel, and those coaches which were fitted with gas as a lummant were plunged into darkness, the gas escaping, and a fire would have taken place had not some of the railway men at once adopted precautionary means. On the other hand, to a coach illuminated by Stone's system of electric lighting, the derailment caused no anxiety so far as the light was concerned. Not only did the electric lamps continue to burn, but had they gone out there would have been no danger from fire, as there was from the coaches lighted by gas.