RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVE TEST
In connection with a promise given in the House by the Minister for Railways, arrangements are being made to ascertain whether the Baldwin locomotives on the Government lines are greater consumers of coal than the other types of engines worked by the Railway Department when worked under similar conditions. In order to test the question three locomotives of the “ U ” class will be run out of Christchurch for a distance of about 100 miles and back. One will bo an American engine, one will bo of British make, and the other will be a locomotive manufactured at the Addington Workshops. The engines from Great Britain and America each have wheels Oft in diameter, while the one made in the colony is provided with 4J- wheels. With this exception all the locomotives are exactly alike. It is intended that each shall draw a load of about 180 tons of gravel, and that all shall run in the same kind of weather, and at the same rate of speed. The tests will be conducted by Mr Fox, Relieving Locomotive Engineer.
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Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 21 August 1901, Page 4
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181RAILWAY LOCOMOTIVE TEST Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 21 August 1901, Page 4
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