A WANT ENGINE.

Putaruru Press, Volume IV, Issue 164, 23 December 1926, Page 7

A WANT ENGINE.

83 MILES AN HOUR. Southern Railway Triumph. The Atlantic Coast express of the Southern Railway which left Waterloo at II g ’clock yesterday morning was drawn| by the most powerful passenger locomotive in the king tom—the Southern .Railway’s new type of express engine, bearing the name “Lord Nelson.’’ The great engine, which has been built at the company’s works at Eastleigh to the design of Mr E. E. L. Maunsell, the company’s chief mechanical engineer, is handsome, broad-shoulcl-ered locomotive which carries the conviction that it is built for speed and power. We were glad (writes the “Daily News’’ special correspondent who made the first trip behind the “Lord Nelson’’) that the engine is to be the first of a new scries wdiich are to bear the picturesque names of gallant sea kings such as Lord St. Vincent, Lord Rodney, Sir Francis Drake, and Sir Richard Grenville. 140-Ton Giant. The Lord Nelsons are to be. called upon to haul 500-ton trains at an averJl f'e speed of 55 miles an hour. At present the heaviest trains on the Southern are 42d to 450 tons. The now engine is of four-cylinder type, superheated, with six-coupled driving wheels, lift. Tin in diameter. -The weight in running order of engine tind tender is 140 tons 4 cwt, and the “tractive effort’’ (as tho engineers say) is the highest in the coun- \\ hen the Lord Nelson steamed proudly out of Waterloo Station at 11 o’clock, the famous “Atlantic Coast Express ’ ’ behind it, a crowd had (Continued in Next Column.)