WON'T COLLIDE TRAIN
WHATEVER THE SIGNALS SAY. An invention wliioh it i« claimed will make railway collisions impossible was I closely tested by Ministry of Transport nnTT'raitway officials on tlio Great Eastern Railway between Grange Hill and Falrlop, Essex. Time after lime h passenger train was run at full speed past signals which were against it, only to be'pulled up at a given point by automatio agencj. I'be system (says the "Daily Mail") consists of an electric brake dovico on the engine which is'set in motion by a ramp, or ehorl third rail, laid down (it intervals along luo track. After the tests, Mr. J. H. Thomas, M.P., who rode on the engine, said: '"l think (liis invention is splendid. If It wero adopted it would not matter whether an euginedriver were asleep, drunk, or dead, for if the line were Hooked th» engine would bo automaiiealljpullod up." 1
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Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 57, 1 December 1920, Page 7
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149WON'T COLLIDE TRAIN Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 57, 1 December 1920, Page 7
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