. French railways . erthis we did not run so hard on to Amiens, inwhich station we drew up 99 minutes 44 secondsfrom Calais (103J miles), having done the wholerun 13 J minutes under time. At Amiens we overstayed our time by a coupleof minutes, and starting off again took thingsrather easily for a time and also lost severalminutes through the permanent ways beingunder repair in one place. From post 104,however, 17 kilometres, where the gradientsaverage about 1 in 350 against the train, wererun in 9 minutes 34^ seconds, which gives anaverage speed of 66J miles an hour. The regu-lator was wide op
. French railways . erthis we did not run so hard on to Amiens, inwhich station we drew up 99 minutes 44 secondsfrom Calais (103J miles), having done the wholerun 13 J minutes under time. At Amiens we overstayed our time by a coupleof minutes, and starting off again took thingsrather easily for a time and also lost severalminutes through the permanent ways beingunder repair in one place. From post 104,however, 17 kilometres, where the gradientsaverage about 1 in 350 against the train, wererun in 9 minutes 34^ seconds, which gives anaverage speed of 66J miles an hour. The regu-lator was wide open and the cut-offs 60 and towards Creil we were slacked beforeClermont, and passed post 51, 50 miles from thestart, in 54 minutes 17 seconds. From post 48 to no FRENCH RAILWAYS post 28 the line rises all the way, and is verynearly all at 1 in 200. Here we again began torun hard, and accomplished these 20 kilometresin 12 minutes 15;^ seconds, which gives anaverage of just under 61 miles an hour. This was. jsr^^f^ ,>=-- *;;S£<«»= FOUE-CYLrNDER COMPOUND EXPRESS ENGINE 2608. about as good as anything we had done. Thetimes were (from Amiens) : inutes. Seconds 56 17X 57 31 58 8^ 58 45i 59 231 60 0! 60 361 61 12 FRENCH RAILWAYS 111 POBtS. Miuutea. Seciinds 39 61 ■^i 38 62 23 r 37 62 594 34 64 50 ;J 33 65 28 32 66 5- 31 66 42i 30 67 20 28 68 331
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