. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . g ford A. M. The corresponding uptrain leaves Bradford at A. M.,Leeds A. M. and reaches KingsCross at A. M. The downluncheon car train is heavier and con-sists of six cars; it leaves Kings Crossat P. M. and reaches Leeds at M. and Bradford P. M. Theselimes, viz.: 3 hours and 35 minutes, forthe i86;/4 miles, are the shortest betweenLondon and Leeds by any route. Eachcar runs on two six-wheel trucks and isfitted with Pullman vestibules and plat-forms, auto
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . g ford A. M. The corresponding uptrain leaves Bradford at A. M.,Leeds A. M. and reaches KingsCross at A. M. The downluncheon car train is heavier and con-sists of six cars; it leaves Kings Crossat P. M. and reaches Leeds at M. and Bradford P. M. Theselimes, viz.: 3 hours and 35 minutes, forthe i86;/4 miles, are the shortest betweenLondon and Leeds by any route. Eachcar runs on two six-wheel trucks and isfitted with Pullman vestibules and plat-forms, automatic couplers. Golds steam eral design similar to the lo-wheelers ofthe Northern Railway of France, withfittings and cab after the G. W. The Midland Railway, having found itslatest non-compounds with Belpaire fire-boxes very eflicient on the fast Scotchtratlic. has ordered a further ten at theDerby shops. Experiments are being made by theNorth British Railway Company witha view to displace the wire rope workingof U^ains up the Cowlairs incline out ofthe Queen street terminus, Glasgow;. EASTERN Ol- , ^E GLEHN 4 C VLlNiJliR COiiiror Nl), heat and gas light. The new enginesand cars used on the service have beenbuilt at the companys shops to the de-signs of Mr. H. A. Ivatt, the chief loco-motive engineer. The London, Brighton & South CoastRailway has had running for some timeon local and mixed traffic services sev-eral new six-coupled radial tank locomo-tives with 60-in. wheels. This railway isexperimenting largely with Texas oilfuel and has erected a large store tankand pumping plant at the West End lo- some powerful side tank lo-comotives known as the 795 class havebeen built for the work. Messrs. Robert Stephenson & Co., thefamous locomotive builders, have recent-ly turned out the first engines from theirnew shops at Darlington. These arefour-coupled express locomotives, with78-in. drivers, built for the Oudh andRnhilkund Railway in India. The Me
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