BRITISH RAILWAYS.

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 178, 14 August 1937, Page 4

BRITISH RAILWAYS.

The year will see new standards set up for speed and comfort by tbe British railways. On the London, Midland and Scottish Railway a new train, the Coronation Scot, is to perform the journey between London and Glasgow, a distance of. 401 miles, in 6J hours. The first of the high-speed, streamlined engines weighs over 160 tons, is 74 feet long and is expected to travel along a eonsiderahle seetion of the West Coast route drawing a train weighing 297 tons at a speed of over 100 miles an hour. A novel feature is the provision at the back of the tender of a steam-operated coal pusher, which will push the coal forward to within reach of the fireman, thus saving considerable manual labour. This month the London and North-Eastern Railway will introduce a new high-speed service between London and Edinburgh to do the 392-mile journey in six hours. The locomotives which are being built for this service will be streamlined. Another train which will be started late in the year will be the West Riding Limited, which will run between Bradford, Leeds and London and will do the 186 miles between Leeds and London at an average speed 'of 68 miles per hour. The British railways already bold the record in the way of regular non-stop funs which are the longest in the world. The new train between London and Glasgow will be the fasfcJ est long- distance steam train in the world for the iomney -btfcwjMii 1 Londpn g only. stqpping place..