. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . rake Department . 460 •Patent Office Department 463 Personals 469 »R!!£!!?.;!;::EiKine(riiR Copyright by Angus Sinclair Co.—1907 A Practical Journal of Railway Motive Power and Rolling Stock Vol. XX. 136 Lrberty Street, New York, November, 1907 No. II Bombay-Poona Mail. and built alter the latest Western construction of the cars, notably the The reproduced pliotograph which ideas, has proved a remarkable success, window and door fixtures, forms our frontispiece picture, shows The cars are
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . rake Department . 460 •Patent Office Department 463 Personals 469 »R!!£!!?.;!;::EiKine(riiR Copyright by Angus Sinclair Co.—1907 A Practical Journal of Railway Motive Power and Rolling Stock Vol. XX. 136 Lrberty Street, New York, November, 1907 No. II Bombay-Poona Mail. and built alter the latest Western construction of the cars, notably the The reproduced pliotograph which ideas, has proved a remarkable success, window and door fixtures, forms our frontispiece picture, shows The cars are without sunshades; The train is shown as being hauled the new Bombay-Poona mail train of that is, the overhanging awning so by one of Mr. S. J. Sargants handsome the Great Indian Peninsula Railway long thought to be inseparable on In- 6-coupled express locomotives built in passing one of the picturtsquc bends dian passenger coaches. Each car has Glasgow. This locomotive operates in the vicinity of Bombay. .\t Mum- a body 62 ft. long and 10 ft. wide. The over the Bombay section to the foot of. F.^ST TRAIN IX , THE BOMB.\Y-POOX.\ bra, about twenty miles out, the tracksround a very prominent headlandv-hich falls abruptly down to theKalyan river. The cars forming thistrain are undoubtedly the handsomestrunning in the public service in India,and the innovation of a vestibuled ex-press with such luxurious furnishings. roof and sides are packed and linedwith non-conducting material to pro-tect the interiors from the suns arrangements comprise opensaloons for lirst, second and third classpassengers, as well as private compart-ments for ladies, families, etc., in eachclass. There are many novelties in the the Ghat inclines. Up these the traini-i taken by two 8-coupled tank enginesto Lanorla, and then by a 4-coupledengine to Poona, 119 miles. The carsare marshalled as follows: Xext thelocomotive, a combination baggage,guard and third class, with privat
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