NEW RAIL-COACH.
OPERATING ON HUTT LINE
(special to "tee pmsb.")
WELLINGTON, April 21
Further evidence of the new spirit that has entered into the management of tho New Zealand Railways has been in evidence during the past two days on the Wellington-Hutt railway,. on which 'there is now running a Sentinel Cammell rail-coach. The coach is driven by a Cam engine of between 60 and 70 horse-power. Super-heated steam is supplied from a vertical watertube boiler burning coal or coke. The driver can operate the coach from either end, thero being dual control. The shell of the rail-coach is steel throughout, and it has four-wheel bogies, the front bogie also forming the power unit. There is seating accommodation for 48 passengers, and a compartment, Jor light luggage. The car is electrically lit by the Stones system. The coach runs at $8 miles per hour on tho level, and 45 miles on a down grade. Six trips each day aro made between Wellington and Lower Hutt, four of which arc extended to Melling, a station two miles further on, where the coach now captures a good deal of traffic that formerly went by motor-bus.
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Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18363, 22 April 1925, Page 9
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193NEW RAIL-COACH. Press, Volume LXI, Issue 18363, 22 April 1925, Page 9
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