. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . hen began to get intospeed and passed West Drayton ( 13 miles18 chains) at 4 oclock exactly; net timefor start 19 minutes. Maidenhead was ducted 10 minutes for checks and stop,working out at an average over 58 milesper hour. This performance is one whicheven a coupled engine would be proud tomanage, and as the rails were wet afterReading, it did very great credit to DriverLewis, who runs this train every otherday, and is, I believe, one of the smartestmen on the line. The A. M. ex Newpo
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . hen began to get intospeed and passed West Drayton ( 13 miles18 chains) at 4 oclock exactly; net timefor start 19 minutes. Maidenhead was ducted 10 minutes for checks and stop,working out at an average over 58 milesper hour. This performance is one whicheven a coupled engine would be proud tomanage, and as the rails were wet afterReading, it did very great credit to DriverLewis, who runs this train every otherday, and is, I believe, one of the smartestmen on the line. The A. M. ex Newport Swanseaand London Corridor Express.—Thistrain leaves Swansea at and afterfour or five stops it leaves Newport as above mentioned. It runs the1431/2 miles to Paddington without a stopat an average of just over 49 miles perhour, but as the 26 miles from Newportto North Somerset Junction have veryheavy gradients, it is a very credit-able performance, the 117 miles from theJunction to Paddington being covered in135 minutes. Load, 170 tons. Locomo-tive, Emlvn ?,07i. Driver, W. HIXCKLEV & DRURY ENGINE. passed about 6 minutes late by scheduletime. Reading, 36 miles exactly, passedat , 5 minutes late by schedule: the 12miles from Maidenhead being done inless than iiJX minutes. Didcot, 53 miles,passed at , 6 minutes late. We thenstarted on the climb to Swindon, the 24^4miles only taking 25 minutes; showingthat these singles can average more than58 miles per hour on a bank of i in 600and 700 with nearly 200 tons. Havingpassed Swindon at , still 5 minutes be-hind schedule, we spurted away andtouched 80 miles per hour down the Woot-ton Bassett incline and passed Chippen-ham at only 4 minutes late. OutsideBathampton we had a signal check result-ing in a dead stop of 3 minutes 56 sec-onds duration, losing quite 6 , having got away in very goodstyle, we arrived at Bath at only 4minutes late. The 120 minutes platformstart to stop
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