. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ing to Berlin, but that Ithink is scarcely correct. There mayhave been some slight differences infavor of the Gegel concern but the mainreason was, I have reason to believe,that British locomotive builders couldnot give delivery within the time pre-scribed. Moreover the Taff Vale Rail-way, a very extensive system in \\ ales,was in very much the same pickle, andnow find themselves in the unfortunateposition of ordering of home enginesin lieu of those of which they had beenexpecting delivery. B
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ing to Berlin, but that Ithink is scarcely correct. There mayhave been some slight differences infavor of the Gegel concern but the mainreason was, I have reason to believe,that British locomotive builders couldnot give delivery within the time pre-scribed. Moreover the Taff Vale Rail-way, a very extensive system in \\ ales,was in very much the same pickle, andnow find themselves in the unfortunateposition of ordering of home enginesin lieu of those of which they had beenexpecting delivery. But of course thehome builders and their workmen willreap the advantage. Notwithstandingthe undoubted shortage of haulage pow-er on some railways 1 have heard noth-ing suggestive of orders going toAmerica. It has to be borne in mind,however, that although there is a short-age on some lines due to pressure olbusiness, on others there is an excess ofpower from dull trade caused by thewar. But the resuts of the war havenot all been evil. It has resulted in aninterchange of facilities in several direc-. Trc IN POSITION ON HUM,I, PRESS FOR BORING HAND CAR WHEEL PINIONS. instance on a time and labor savingbasis and also has the double merit oidurability and reliability to a degree thatcertainly leaves nothing further to be de-sired. lions, and although I have not yetheard of an interchange of locomotivesthere is nothing improbable about suchan occurrence. I have heard of the dis-advantages to passengers that followed January, 1915. RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. on the transfer of control of the rail-ways to the War Office, but 1 did notmention a very considerable benefit,t here are a very large number of placesin Britain having railway connection bytwo or more systems. For instanceulasgow and London are connected bythree systems and before the war a re-turn ticket was only available on therailway system on which it was \ow, a passenger may go by one andreturn by any one
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