. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . .,^:::;^.M4 A tireat Railway Mobili/ation. We, in this country, are not likely to begreatly exercised on the subject of themobilization of troops by railway to repelan invasion of foreign troops; but it isnevertheless a safisfactory and an assuringfact to have such a demonstration as wasmade on Saturday last by the CaledonianRailway Company of a raid of 15,000Scotch people over the border into Car-lisle. The occasion was the annual excur-sion of the workers of the CaledonianRailway locomotive department,
. Locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . .,^:::;^.M4 A tireat Railway Mobili/ation. We, in this country, are not likely to begreatly exercised on the subject of themobilization of troops by railway to repelan invasion of foreign troops; but it isnevertheless a safisfactory and an assuringfact to have such a demonstration as wasmade on Saturday last by the CaledonianRailway Company of a raid of 15,000Scotch people over the border into Car-lisle. The occasion was the annual excur-sion of the workers of the CaledonianRailway locomotive department, i.(.]; SPARK BREAKER AND EXTINGUISHER. pany, as honorary president of the excur-sion committee, had also much to do withSaturdays arrangements. The first trainleft at 5:10 in the morning, and the four-teen were dispatched from St. Rollox atintervals of lO minutes, with two excep-tions, when the schedule allowed 20 min-utes, so that the whole of the 15,000 pas-sengers were sent off in 2 hours and 40minutes. In each case 2 hours and 25minutes were allowed for the run fromGlasgow to Carlisle, and all arrived totime except the fourteenth and last, whichwas 15 minutes late, owing to having beendelayed by a goeds train in front. Wedo not need to recall the long climb upBeattock, nor the length of the run. Theperformance is a splendid one. On thereturn from Carlisle the trains left atdifferent intervals to suit the excursion-ists; 2 hours and 30 minutes were allowedfor the journey. Some of the trains ar-rived before scheduled time, while one ortwo of the later ones were handic
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