. The ways of our railways . .r\-i\J/!:. FOIR-TKACK AITOMATIC SIGNAL GANTRY, L. AND S. W. R. THE CONTROL OF THE TRAINS. 133 The art of railway traffic management consistsin making the fullest possible use of the tracks asis consistent with safety and efficiency. A mile ofrailway is a piece of plant which may have cost any-thing from £10,000 to £500,000, and the upkeep ofwhich costs round about /500 a year. The profit-ableness of such an investment must, of course,largely depend upon its full and constant employ-ment. Given a good road and well-designed rolling-stock, the traffic managers succe
. The ways of our railways . .r\-i\J/!:. FOIR-TKACK AITOMATIC SIGNAL GANTRY, L. AND S. W. R. THE CONTROL OF THE TRAINS. 133 The art of railway traffic management consistsin making the fullest possible use of the tracks asis consistent with safety and efficiency. A mile ofrailway is a piece of plant which may have cost any-thing from £10,000 to £500,000, and the upkeep ofwhich costs round about /500 a year. The profit-ableness of such an investment must, of course,largely depend upon its full and constant employ-ment. Given a good road and well-designed rolling-stock, the traffic managers success or failure is inproportion to the amount of transportation he canturn out from his plant. If from ignorance of theresources of his art he calls for the construction ofwidened tracks or relief lines before he has properlyhlled the existing ones, he infficts serious loss uponthe shareholders from over-capitalisation of theproperty. If, on the other hand, he does not foreseethe necessity of enlargement until the urgent needis upon him
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