FAST RAILWAY SPEEDS.

Globe, Volume XXII, Issue 1909, 7 April 1880, Page 4

FAST RAILWAY SPEEDS.

The speed oE railroad trains in France, Germany, and the Uaited State*, is ftill below that of several lines in England. The "lightning train" on the Firis-Marseilles line makes the distent of 539 miles between these two cities in fifteen hours and twenty-one minutes, the average speed, including stoppages, being thirty-five mile* an hour. The express train on" the Lsihter Railway runs from Berlin to Cologne at the rate of thirty seven and a hulf miles un hour, including stops, making the entire 6istar.ee oi 364 miles n nine hours and twenty-six minutes. The Scottish mail leaves Euston Square at 8.50 b the evening, and reaches Edinbnreb at 6.43 the next morning. The distance is 401 miles, the time nine bouiv* nnd St'ij five mifutes, the rate of speed, including stops, forty-one and a quarter miles an hour. Tbo express from King's Cross runs to Edinburgh, o distance of 397 miles, in cine and a half hours, or at the rate of fortv-two miles an hour, including Btop3. The faat train from Paddington to Plymouth, and the Insn mail from London to Holyhead, average between forty-one and forty-two miles an hour, or about the samo as the Scottish trains. The fastest short dietan,?e trains in G-ermany are that which runs from Spandau to Stendal, fifty-seven and a hulf miles, without stopping, in one hour and seventeen minutes. or at the rate of forty-five miles an hour, and the express, which mukes the distanco of eightv-eight and three-quarter miles, between Berlin and Magdeburg, in two hours and seven minutes, or at the rate of forty-two miles an hour, including two land a much higher rate of f need is attained on short distances. The Great Western trains run through from London to Swindon at the rate of fifty-three miles an hour, making the entire distance of seventy seven and a quarter mile* in one hour and twentyseven minutes, whiie nearly fi?fy miles an hour is made by the special ex ;.rpas, which runs from London to Wan'.ham, 105 miles, in two hours and five minutes. This is doubtless a much higher rate of spe.dth<m the usual schedule time on rouds in the United States. The Washington limited express leaves New York at 10 a.m. reaches Washington at 4 p.m. Tho distance, 230 miles, is made in six hours, or at the rate of thirty-eight and one-third miles an hour, including stops. Between New York and Philadelphia but two stops are made, the rate of speed is forty miles an hour. The Boston express, which Laves New York at 11 a.m., runs to Bjston, 233 rr iles, in seven hours and eleven minutes, which is about thirty-two miles an hour, i: c'udiog the six stops that are made. The °peoia,l mail and express train on the New York Central and Hudson River road make* the distance at night between New Y rk and Albany, 143 miles, in four hours and five minutes, or nearly thirty-six miies an hour. Only one stop is made. The Cineion-iti expvoss on the Pennsylvania Railroad leaves New York at six in the evening and r-aches Pittsburg, a distance of 444 miles, at 8.30 on tho following morning, and Cincinnatti, 757 miles, at. 8 p.m. of the game day. The raie of speed, including stops, is about thirty miles an hour between New York and Pittsburg, and twenty-nine miles an hour between New Y>rk ad Cincinnatti. The distance between Htrrisburg and Pittsburg, 249 miles, is run in seven h'.ura and thirty-five minutes, with thrye stops, or about thirty-three miles an hour. The fast line to Chioago by way of the Pennsylvania Road leaves New York at 9 a.m., and reaches Chicago at 720 on the folio wing evening. The distance is 912 miles, the time thirty-four hours and twenty minutes, the rate of speed less than twenty-seven miles an hour.