. The ways of our railways . es, however, where the ser-vices of telegraphists are not considered worth theextra cost of their training, the telephone is utilised—as, for instance, in the station-masters and in-spectors offices and in shunters cabins. It is alsolargely used for the collection and distribution ofrailway telegrams, though several large railway com-panies have installed a system of pneumatic tubesfor this purpose at very busy centres, where as manyas 7,000 to 8,000 messages are dealt with in the courseof a day. At Liverpool Street station all telegramsreceived or to be despatched
. The ways of our railways . es, however, where the ser-vices of telegraphists are not considered worth theextra cost of their training, the telephone is utilised—as, for instance, in the station-masters and in-spectors offices and in shunters cabins. It is alsolargely used for the collection and distribution ofrailway telegrams, though several large railway com-panies have installed a system of pneumatic tubesfor this purpose at very busy centres, where as manyas 7,000 to 8,000 messages are dealt with in the courseof a day. At Liverpool Street station all telegramsreceived or to be despatched are transmitted throughtubes, and the two telegraph-receiving offices on theplatforms on the east and west sides of the stationare also connected with the head office at HamiltonHouse by the same method. There are several milesof these tubes at Liverpool Street, constituting aminiature single-track railway system operated byair-power and worked by air-compressors situatedabout half a mile from the head office. The ringing. ELECTRIC GOODS LOCOMOTIVE, NORTH-EASTERN RAILWAYJholoby British Tho-nson-Uounon Cc]
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