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Hokitika Guardian, 3 December 1923, Page 4

ATMOS IM ! LU 1C TUiLWAY. thaixs PASSLXOERS PrSfIKD. I.OXDOX, Oct. 10 A ivhc in the short-lived exiie* inn : about tlie middle cl' List eentuiy i running t inins without iocomotr,• s admit In di-appcar, ii> r a -tart ins made with the tmiiiu;;' down oi t: chimney of the old lKiWi-r station the almost forgotten South Devon muspheric Railway. A station still exists at Forest LSI S. It., hut is now idle, with the engine aitd pumps removed. It was ones- i n v mu the atmospheric line tint ra helwi’eii Forest jlijj and Croydon, wim-li is now part of the wain Loin! ■ nrid.oo-Tirighton lino. The idea, of the atmospheric railwa was that of a pi-ton working pneumatically in an air-tight tithe laid between tile rails, the piston being mn rnviod with the train. Tile Devon line, hot ween Exeter aui Totnes, was opened in hut was worked atmospherically foi less :i;an. a year owing to difficulties with the mechanism. For the same reason ( >n the Koiest Hill and Croydon ilne it w;ts a frequent experience for passengers to have to alight and push the train up an incline and then it sometimes started down the other side so quickly that they had uo time to get- in again.

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