THE MONO-RAIL.

Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 922, 15 September 1910, Page 4

THE MONO-RAIL.

SHOULD;NE\7 ZEALAND ADOPT IT! ; ; '. Replying/-to.'■ .-Mafaiiira,/: .who.' aAed- v whether /any. in--, quiries had .been' made;-.by.'; the Railway Department'as;:to tlie : jpraoticability.of ~• adopting -the i Brerinanmono-rail system .of railways., for brafich lines,"'the Hon. '■':- .Si: A... Millar '■'(Minister', for Railways) "'.-. stated in: the■ 'House .yesterday.- that the.:;.':■ experiments that.had. been made' in- con-'••'■'■; .section'., with: the. Brehnah mono-railway"- : .and the; development of systems -proposed ':■■ by . other,, .inventors.,' had -been closely. V: Iwatched.' from.' the . outset.;j.;.'Sinw; Bren- /, nahV scheme ..was' 'propounded::'several ;r other 1 , inventors had. come forward.with. ;?'/' what; they .-claimed :.fe ;'be/.improvements't\ on' ; the.. Brennan : system, f;/ .Quite recent-''; ly an exhibition''iwas'given- at-.:Westmin-..- ,; ,sier..Palace Hotel ■'.; of a ;new mono-rail:■: : -.'. system, devised by -\ the:governor.; of'brio ,v----of. •■ the:'. Russian -. provinces, f! which /used/if -gyroscopes.,run;:at-a.low,;.'speed, , as against'■'■:;.' '.: ae high-tspeeds'employed ;by V'Jlr.- jßren-1, ; , ; nan and It; was, claimed;'that'/..' ■ ■i'e/high-epeed/gyroscope '.had-, many ;dis- :"' advantages-Which'were absent-in, the case'' : of- those of• low speed./, With regard:'.to\,\ "the question, of cost, it/was -a: moot .point'; ■} ■.- t/ the -present, moment what savings,-,. if ■■.;'. ;ariy, \could be \ effected *fn ; laying' mono- '■ ! - railway s.y.- Several engineers : bf■■ note held that there'was no material'saving.in the :: cost of. construction' and -maintenance in i; \ne ".'case ,of -a .single rail/Tor heavy/'paKjtT" senger. traffio, as there must be very: con-*". siderable';increase~ in,the .strength of the. - •lifferent', ; ,elements .composing, :■, the per- v ;,;; manent-way.;. 'In,the meantime; the nys-:•:. .tern had not- got much beyond -the :: ex- li V perimental'stage. ./-.When- : this had ;been'-, passed; ; the ; question'"as 'to what extent ■■:' , the system could-be adopted with-:benefit;; tb.New"Zealand would be fully gone into.'?:' •lie was collecting all \the .., .available information on'the'subject;'" : : '.'