DIESEL LOCOMOTIVE
FAST SPEED ON TRIALS MANY NEW SERVICES Something new in trains accelerated out of' Euston Station, London, one afternoon recently. It was the new L.M.S. diesel-engined light passenger unit, carrying as passengers Sir Josiah Stamp and other officials of the L.M.S. on its test run to Tring. A steam-lined three-car unit, painted Post Office red and aluminium, it started off without any of the usual train-noises. Only a slight purring under the floor indicated that it was about to move.
Throughout the run a high average speed was maintained. At one point 32 m.p.h. was touched. The train was driven by six sixcylinder engines, each of 125 h.p. At either end is a driver’s cabin shaped like the nose of a seaplane. There is accommodation for 162 passengers in the three-saloon-type vestibule cars.
Features new to railway trains include compressed air brakes, airoperated sliding doors controlled by the guard (unless the doors are properly closed the driver cannot start the train), loud-speaking communication between the driver and guard and anti-noise insulation of car floors and walls.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 May 1938, Page 3
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178DIESEL LOCOMOTIVE Wairarapa Times-Age, 14 May 1938, Page 3
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