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The annual dinner of the Of ficers Prisoners of War Dining Club was held recently. Nearly all the members either escaped or at- tempted to escape from one of the German prison camps.
CLAPHAM JUNCTION
2,500 TRAINS PASS IN
AND OUT DAILY
VITAL SPOT IN ENGLAND'S RAILWAY SYSTEM
(By Basil Murray)
London. tainers, which carry it to the various
The club was originally confined to officers who had been at Holz- the Grand Central terminus In Clapham is also a link in the rall
The largest station in the world retailers throughout London. malden. It was from this camp New York; for it has three storeys. way by-pass of London from North that the largest mass escape took on the top are offices, refreshment to South through the Kensington place. Twenty-nine men succeed- rooms and shops. Twenty feet, un- and Olympia. Hne.
The Sunny
ed in getting out of the camp by a derground there are 29 platforms South Express from the Northern tunnel. Eleven of them reached for the reception and despatch of industrial centres to the seaside re- England
There is a suggestion that next express trains. Twenty-fother is through it, and both Great. Western feet the South Coast passes
year the club, should entertain some German officers who escaped traffic.
platforms for local and suburban and LM.S. trains use the station. from captivity during the war.
Complicated Signals The largest station in Great; The other day I spent an hour in Britain is Victoria, which covers an the main signal box at the peak of area of 25 acres and has 24 plat- the rush hour.
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After dinner members of the forms, one of which is 1500ft, Jong It was an impressive experience, Club tell stories of their escapes. (No. 15: Brighton, and Newhaven Three men were on duty in front. The leader of the Holzminden boat trains). Next comes Waterloo of an elaborate piece of mechanism break-out, Mr. D. B. Gray, was not with an area of 24% acres and 21 with keya like those of an organ. prezent at the recent dinner in platforms.
Above was a diagram of the track London, but a vivid account of an At Victoria about 1060 trains they controlled. Silver balls which escape which ended at the last arrive and depart every 24 hours, switched to red as the trains enter moment in failure, was given by At Waterloo the number is about ed a given section of track showed Mr. N. A. Birka.
1550. Very nearly all the trains them exactly where the traffic they Mr. Birks, by skilful train going to or from these two termini were directing was at any moment. jumping, succeeded in getting to pass through Clapham Junction, Below there is within a few miles of the Dutch which consequently deserves the mechaniam, which makes it Impossi an Interlocking frontier. He decided to hide dur-title of "the busiest station in the ble for a signal to admit a train to ing the day in a disused windmill. world."
a section when the points are wrong. One sail was missing, and he cov. It la a curious place. For one In this box alone there are 103 ered the hole with sacking to keep thing, unless you go there by train different levers, each of which may out the wind.
It is hard to find. One entrance is control, four signals, and beneath it Germans knew he was in the through a gloomy yard and along a run 17 tracks, district and urged the village dark subway. Another is-down a All the time there is a continuous thai operations has yet been children to search for him.
narrow passage between shops: A symphony of bells, warning the given. Japan is quite mistaken The mill was a favourite play-third, the front door of the station, signalmen of the type of train if she supposes that these ground, and the sacking over the is down a deserted, curling aide which is approaching and on which aggressions have raised her re- hole betrayed him to the sharp street. Porters, although 85 of line it is running. There are 28 putation in the world. Her eyes of the children. military and naval repute stands
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The China Mail
Hong Kong, Wednesday, Jan. 2, 1935.
Japan And Washington The Japanese Government will be disappointed with the results of her gesture of defiance in ab-|
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where it did; the only change it WAR IN THE AIR that she is now regarded with suspicion; and no longer as a de- The old and rather stupid com
plaint that the Churches do not. sirable ally.
The Washington Treaties, keep up with the times" (what-
?
them are employed at the station, different kinds of bell signals, dis- are scarce, and taxis even scarcer. tinguished from each other by tone But Clapham Junction is not in or rhythm or a mixture of both. terested in that sort of passenger. For example, the warning of a stop- ping train is one ring, a pause, three rings, another pause, then
Old-Fashioned Station
The station was the second to be three rings again. A down passen-
rogating the Washington Treaty, there were nine in all-were the ever "the times" may mean). 18built on what is now the Southern ger express is signalled by three Not because of any difficulties most solid achievement of the iven the lie in the following ad- that will arise directly out of the post-war effort to secure the vertisement It appears in a staid Hallway system Nine Elms was rings, a-pause-and-one-ring- formal act. The Treaty itself peace of the world. Had the Church of England journal
the original terminus (1840). and Mechanical Safeguards Clapham was built in the same year. The work of the signalmen is provides a limit of time within same-spirit been carried on into
Sussex Weald Rector, Evange-It is still in many ways an old- hard and exacting, but the system
which its validity was to continue later negotiations, much of the lical, who left Somerset Rectory fashioned, station; poorly lit, ill of mechanical safeguards is so effl- for London Vicarage, early 1915, equipped with waiting and refresh-cient that it is almost impossible for realising war again imminent, wishes negotiate tired or aged
ment rooms, devoid of most of the failure of the human element to. conveniences which you will find at cause an accident. But carelessness London Vicar for Exchange on the great London terminl and most or inattention might delay one train actual outbreak of war. Middle aged but at zenith of strength|
important provincial stations. But and dislocate the entire service.. and vigour.
from the traffic angle it is one of The men work in three eight-hour
of.
and after which notice of abroga-present unrest would never have tion could be given to take effect been engendered. Those treaties in two years time. Whoever it secured the peace of the shores was that devised the two year of the Pacific on a firm basis that interval, which applied also to has not been shaken yet; and it notice of withdrawal from the is noticeable that Japan is League of Nations, was a long anxious that all those by which headed statesman. Two years she benefits shall continue to It is to be hoped that in this the wonders of the railway world shifts, and there is a rule of silence xives plenty of opportunity for subsist. The answer is that case the Rector is too ahead
In actual size it is almost as large in the signal box. reflection; and nobody would be after setting the example of the times.
as Waterloo. The station covers, As I stood outside on the bridge. at all surprised if negotiations exclusive consideration of her
244 acres and in addition there are I saw four traina passing under- should bye and bye be renewed. own wishes, she cannot complain
10 acres of sidings (not counted as neath me simultaneously, Three. Foreign Offices that have had if other people do the same.
part of the station). There are 17 were suburban electrics, one was ong experience and have amass-
The reason, quoted for the Rivals for the America's Cup, we are The staff numbers 425, of whom 43 Plymouth. I was told that as many platforms and seven signal boxes. the down exprcas from Waterloo to ed colossal files of correspondence abrogation is so obviously flimsy told, have spent U.S.180,000,000, con and interviews may be somewhat that it has no force whatever, tending for a plece of hardware worth are shunters and 27 signalmen. as twelve trains have been known to inclined to deliberation, but they that the treaty has become out $50. It would have been almost as And in winter 2523 trains are dealt pass through the station simul are not inclined to be fluttered of date. The fact may be quite cheap to settle the thing by a lawsuit, with by the Clapham Junction (taneously. ebullitions of self-importance.
{true; all treaties do need amend-
worked up.
The real ground of the decision.
Your Daily Smile!
Ahem!
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signalmen every twenty-four hours. Clapham Junction is a fascinat
The main facts of the situa- ment from time to time. There ed for taxation by movie stars show
Published records of property return-On holidays or race days the num-ing place: it is also a highly vulner tion are so simple that they are would of course be no objection that three of the richest film actors are ber may be considerably larger. able one. From the signal box one very easily stated. Japan sees
to amendments by mutual con-Charlie Chaplin, Harold Lloyd and Will The average size of a train is 10 look across to the Battersea Power the world divided into two por sent. The other reason, that Rogers. Our advice, then, to young coaches, with 60 passengers per Station. One bomb on the turbines tions, the Orient and, the Occl-the ratio, which was above that men is "Go West and be funny."
coach. No station in the world can there and half England would be in dent. She sees herself as the actually attained by Japan before
show.traffic figures to equal these, the dark. Three bombs on Clapham suzerain Power of the Orient; the treaty was made is hurtful "Every time able to dispense with any help to the national self-esteem, is with my girl friend, I enter it in acials. themselves admit that the re- South of England would be virtually argument though the Southern Railway off Junction and the whole of the from the Western Powers; free little more than an appeal to the small diary” to impose her will on China by
cord for the number of passengers cut off from London and the North artificial feeling that has been "Oh,, I see. You keep a scrapbook." joining and leaving trains is the by rail military force if need be; and to
Out of Order freeze out other influences by
250,000 claimed by Flindera-atreet, toll A
GRAND CANAL TO A recent civil service examination Melbourne.
BE DREDGED $260,000 Allocated
Nanking, December 20. years ago there was a larger spread The National Economic Coum- Lover of this traffic. People started cil decided to-day to appropriate work at times varying from six to a sum of $250,000 as expenses ten. Now almost everyone aims at for the dredging of the northern reaching their offices between nine section of the Grand Canal in
Shantung-Chokini Agency.........
commercial-competition.The la simply that Japan expected question for a man to are a marine The traffic at Clapham is uneven only thing to be said about the that rather than allow her to boiler was this: "If it takes 20 men to ly distributed through the day. picture is that it does not corres retire from an agreement that now a field in eight hours, how long The peak loads pass from eight to has saved many millions of will it take 15 men to mow the same! pond with the facts. There is no
field ?"
ten in the morning and five to seven need to minimise the wonderful pounds to the signatories, the
Naval Powers would recognise inquisitors. He wrote: "As the field, ing which Londoners are travelling One candidate was too smart for the In the evening, the rush hours dur record of Japan's progress in the the Manchukuo Government. has already been mowed by the 20 me to and from their work. Twenty Meiji period; she has enjoyed the goodwill of both the English That is another question, on the 16 mea could not now it in any speaking Pawers, and actual all-which it is enough to say at pre-case
sent that the threat of with- ance with England for the years drawal did not intimidate any- A BURGLAR'S DIARY that were the most crucial. The body, and that nobody felt in- influence of her Elder Statesmen clined for that form of bargain- Agcount Book and Acids Hevel-headed and steady policy of ing The outstanding result so
far has been to drive the U.S.A. For Testing Jewels and England to a diplomatic entente in the Pacific that has
has been used to maintain a
A completely equipped burglar,
2,000
goodwill and good faith while she pushed ahead with her own dève-
At the height of the rush hour a lopment. The fatal turn came with the occupation of Mukden in often appeared to be very hard to who carried his housebreaking im train passes Clapham Junction every defiance of treaty obligations and ed. by France and Italy, and by kept a diary with entries In code that at these periods, 2,000 people secure, but which is now support-plements in a music satchel and heavily loaded and It is fair to say 20 seconds. All these trains are without any consultation with the Dominions of Canada and concerning addresses In Birming her friends. It would be quite Australia. The freedom from all ham, was sentenced to three years Pass through the station possible to make out a case for that step; the point is that the mutual promises to economise on penal servitude for bousebreaking at Although the bulk of the traffic case should have been made out
armaments has been somewhat Birmingham Quarter Sessions re before the act. The result was
dearly purchased. to create the impression that Japan was no longer to be relied
The Mukden incident, has led
on to bimilar and cusable ass
cently.
every
minate." Alu
malat the station is concentrated in the
morning and evening rushes, The man, George. Edward" Mat
de no hour in the twenty-four kin, aged 29. pleaded guilty to three counts of housebreaking and
Clapham Junction is silent. theft of lewellery It was stated midnight, when the passenger trains that he kept an account book
ave stopped the grea qut-re cerning his income
traffic usin Railway passes through neck One of the chief
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