ELECTRIC POWER.
SHOULD BE USED ON RAILWAYS (Per, Press Association.) Wellington, last night. Mr Ronayne,. General Manager of Railways, speaking at a reoeption given bim by the railway offioera, alluded to the advanaes made .in the application of electricity to trains. At Yanoouver a line 12 miles in length had its electricity generated by water 160 miles away. That was the sort of thiog they ought to bo doing in New Zealand. Tho CanadianPacific rolling stock and carriages oould not be improved anywhere. Ooe feature of American trains was the use of bells instead of whistles. Another' was the absenoe of platforms and verandahs. On the latter Boore, everywhere in this respect New Zealand was ahead. Locomotives in Amerioa were not bo well maintained as in England and New Zealand. He Boaroely ever saw a clean engine in the States. The carriages, however, were a decided contrast. At Pittsburg he saw an eleotrio locomotive being turned out weighing 185 tons. People were rather afraid of it. The Westingbouse and General Eleotrioal Company had promised to keep New Zealand well informed of the latest developments in eleotrifying railways.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1551, 6 September 1905, Page 2
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