SPEED OF LOCOMOTIVES
Dlsoußßing the question of how great a speed looomotlvga may attain, the " Engineer " maintains that although statements have been' made that at certain trials cna hundred miles per bouts have been reached, yet these rona are not properly attested, and there la no proof that any locomotive haa exceeded elgh-y miles per hour. This speed was aotually reached by one of Mr Person's broad guage tank engines, with nine feet driving wheels, on the Bristol and Exeter railway. When running at this rate the engine has to overcome a resistance of air equal to the force exerted by a hurricane. In faor, the storm that destroyed the Tay bridge was blowing at less than sixty miles an hour. The great obstaole to % higher speed than eighty miles en hour is the getting rid of steam. Lately an engine has been constructed for a French company Intended to run regularly at one mile and a-thlrd per minute. This is ft higher velocity than any regular engine performance In this country, although more than a mile pec minute is perfoimed over oertaln districts regularly; At eighty miles on hour London would be a little ovei fire hours' Journey from Edlaburgh.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1905, 30 July 1888, Page 3
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201SPEED OF LOCOMOTIVES Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1905, 30 July 1888, Page 3
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