. Every boy's book of railways and steamships . been even better. Theseengines made railway history, not in racing, but inregular booked times, which are far more few examples must suffice to show the capabili-ties of the Dunalastairs with loads of 200 tons :Perth to Forfar, 32j miles in 32 min.; Carlisle toStirling, 117| miles in 125 minutes (Plate XXIII),and Stirling to Perth, at 562 miles an hour regard-less of an incline, 1 in 73, at Dunblane-Kinbuck,are running feats worth remembering. The longestnon-stop run is Carlisle to Perth, 15 Of miles in3 hours. Of the Irish lines the G
. Every boy's book of railways and steamships . been even better. Theseengines made railway history, not in racing, but inregular booked times, which are far more few examples must suffice to show the capabili-ties of the Dunalastairs with loads of 200 tons :Perth to Forfar, 32j miles in 32 min.; Carlisle toStirling, 117| miles in 125 minutes (Plate XXIII),and Stirling to Perth, at 562 miles an hour regard-less of an incline, 1 in 73, at Dunblane-Kinbuck,are running feats worth remembering. The longestnon-stop run is Carlisle to Perth, 15 Of miles in3 hours. Of the Irish lines the Great Northern, with 587miles of track, though not the longest, is the mostimportant system. It owns 164 locomotives, andcarries 6^ million passengers annually. Thelongest non-stop run is fron; Dublin to Drogheda,32 miles. The Great Southern and Western Eail-way, with over eleven hundred miles of line, hasonly 283 locomotives. Its quickest service, Dublinto Cork, 166 miles, is the White Star Americanmail express for Queenstown. The Belfast and. A GARLAND OF IRON RIBBONS 149 Northern Counties Eailway amalgamated with theMidland Eailway in 1903. Some of the chieftowns served are Belfast, Lame, Londonderry,Antrim, Coleraine, etc. One of the best services isfrom Belfast to Londonderry (Plate XXIV).
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