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Reliability Of

Of British Public On Rails

(By F. Wirth)

1945 the British public spent more than £210 millions on travel by the four main-line rail- ways and on the London rail transport system, and almost £170 millions on shiftfing goods up and down the country. A simple computation will show the average expenditure on rail transportation for cach inhabitant, man, woman and child,. thus amounts to the substantial sum of £8 sterling a year.

There could, perhaps, be no better proof of the in tegration of Britain's railways with the country's economic life than this large gross income, maintained over a period of · years despite heavy competition of road transport and, to some extent, of coastal shipping.

Teleprinter Circuits

of

IMH the Emle Self Al Islam Abdullah, eldest son of the King' of the Yemen, recording a message at the British Broadcasting Car- poration, London, to be broadcast to his people in the Arable Ser- vice of the BBC. He visited Broadcasting House while he was in London as head of the Yemen delegation to the Palestine Confer- ence,

tion, ventilation and

refrigeration for the carriage of perishable com- modities.

Specialised Services

A number of specialised services to was introduced in recent years enter for particular needs.

MIDLAND NEWSLETTER

(By R. C. Scott)

A 'German prisoner-of-war, an ex-schoolmaster from Frankfurt, is curving the side of an altar for Chilvers Coton Parish Church, Nuneaton, which his fellow countrymen-

All destroyed in an air rald.

church that remained of the after the raid was the tower.

The Germans have helped to re- eminent lay the churchyard and an Bavarian sculptor executed an im- out- posing figure of Christ with stretched arms in east concrete, German stonemason has carved R font and made other ornaments estimated to cost twenty thousand pounds. The root is ready to creet on the old part of the church which other Germans have helped to re- bulld.

of

years

on

Twenty-year-old, radio star Peggy opening O'Neil paid a visit to the ceremony

Stratford-on-Avon's Mop where as a child she had help- ed her showman father manage the "I often slipped merry-go-round.

Bong away in those days to sing a for the showmen and I used to tell them that one day they would have to pay to hear me sing," she told a reporter.

Over two

kgo a young Cypriot, Pilot Officer Chris Chara- lambous,

his lost

Hfe while bombing operations. Chris was the first Cypriot in the RAF to gain his wings, and when spending leaves with friends in Rugby he used talk at length about his scheme for water laking back £350 to provide a

village. A supply for his native

and although fund was opened, Chris will never take back the The war naturally retarded

his friends in Rugby are or" money gennomic carrying out of the various develop-pansing concerts so that the instance:ment plans. The coming years, ht however, Wil Nee a tremendous provide the spurt in the effort to British publie with a most efflelent rall transportation system.

The strength of the railways' the ralis, and the wheels of a train position is, of course, due to the upon them lack the signals, which excellence of their performance, cannot be released while a train or

vehicle is in the section. reliability and endurance, especially under battle condi- tions as shown during the late

The widespread introduction war. But this is not the whole powerful coloured light signals sug-

metallurgical Their

laboratories, explanation.

success gests that the days of the familiar and must, to a very large measure, semaphore signals on the high-speed formed the nucleus of the new or- added also be credited to the fullest main lines of the British rallways ganisation, To these were

The advantages of sections dealing with are numbered.

engineering application of science, technical the coloured light over the sema- research and physics respectively. and commercial, to the job of

In Of the 150 employees of the depart- phore are especially noticeable

Bleustment. Sixty are fully-qualified running this gigantic, nation-congested areas and under

For several scientific graduates, many with re- weather conditions. wide organisation.

years past the railways have been seurel experience before joining the

Company's service. The largest of the four big rail- stccessfully experimenting with nuto- train warning way compantes operating in Britain matic systems of

The Application selentific

of Is the London. Midland and Scottish control, which only war conditions

methods is not restricted only to the Railway (L.M.S.), founded in 1923 have delayed.

physical aspects of rallway opera- as a result of amalgamation of!

Telecommunication

equally tions. bas thirty-five separate railway systems, high priority in development work.

It is also the biggest single cam! The old railway telegraph is

The various administrative and mercial enterprise in the country.

in adopting selen- almost extinct. Its place has been commercial activities, too numerous tile principles to railway operations taken by high-speed teleprinter cir- to list, are all being put on a scien-

be regarded as typi-TES

cuits linking practically all the maine and, therefore, more

exchange basis. To can, there's fransport by rali.

through selentille co-ordination the trunk telephone network in growing Research, and application of result of research, is to be found in almost every day. During the war number of types of paper used for

tele advertising and operating publica every branch of railway operation, complete system of radio

linking all the phone.

principal tions and printed forms has been Permanent way provides h good

into reduced from 50 to 12.. The example. To the Jayman the rail-stations, was ready to be put

inber of forms was reduced by 60 per why running in the track--has operation at a moment's notice

saving of £150,000 per in rent, with remained unaltered, but in faet all case of the main track components--rails, chalts, sleepers and ballast--as well invasion. as the method of manufacture and maintenance, have been entirely altered during the past twenty years 01 50. The track which Britain possessed after the first world war would not have been suitable for

Its

cal of

centres. The

serious breakdown

now

alls wired communtentions, or an enemy annum.

the intensive mileage of high-speed truing in operation in 1030.

Rapid Progress

has

ias

Continuous

been attention iven to improvements in structural design, materials and methods. Rapid progress has been made the use of reinforced concrete, both its pre-cast and in situ forms, with ordinary and pre-stressed reh- forcement

Rive

Train Timing

-

Much care and scientifle thought Diagrammalle train timing. meţi- in-stock-the direct earning

a given to the development of rull-

eulous compilation of working time- assel tables. londing tables for each see- of the railway. The old problem of tion, survey

traffic density, increasing power-to-weight ratio nationalisation of goods terminal and gines is being successfully solved partage operations, surveys of traille and the fast-running modern loco poter

Cum- potentialities in each of the mative is 10 to 30 pre cent Treany's thirty-five districts are but a

of predecessor powerful than its

few examples of the great effort to similar, weight,

develop the most efficient transpor- tation of passengers and goods by rait.

Conversion to Oil

These carry Inclusive arrange- ments for hulk conveyance, storage and even retail distribution; provi- sion of fixed demountable and rand- rall tanks for bulk iquids on hire contract or other terms; and, for a

amall extra fee, specially observed consignments.

by

the

to

little

Cypriot village shall have its water supply as a memorial to the young airman who lost his ille in a ral on the Milan marshalling yards.

Memorial Problem

war

Improvement schemes worked out

the LMS, for instance, provide The villagers of Bishops Itching- for a total expenditure of not less ton, Warwickshire, are split over the

of the 1914-18 system's problem thon £140 million. This main effort during 1916 is to produce memorial. Shall it be moved from In the position us much well-tried equipment as its Fresent possible, which will have the effect village hall to the Parls of going some way towards restorYes, say the parish council and ing pence-lime services. Its loco- out

out that recent parish motive park will be strengthened by voted in favour of its an addition of 135 engines.

Scot Ten of the famous Royal locomotives and eight other express passenger engines are to be rebuilt and fitted with an improved type of boller to give them additional power. This expansion of rolling-stock is a

Radically new designs have been

One of the tremendously interest.highly priority job also in construc

tion programines of all other British studied; tests have been made with ing developments in railway apera rollway companies.

Locomotives for Europe

a condensing turbine Incomotive and

bas

and

to build this year 110

the

locomotives

with one employing a boiler prestons has been the organisation and sure of 980 lb. per square tract. The expansion of "pre-shipment"

485 heavy Freight "post-shipment" services for freight conversion of

traffic. This means that Britain'a Despite the shortage of rolling- No department of railway opera locomotives from coal to oil burning railways now lake care of merchan stock for home use, the British loco tions has been SO many and HO

Improvements in the past been announced by the LMS as dise not only while it is being trans-motive building industry undertook rapid rapic

part of the save-the-coal however, as

initiated by the British ported by rail, but ensure that it is quarter of

properly handled all the way from for signalling and telecommunication.

the sender to the receiver. A high standard of safety for pas sengers has been achieved; during the whole lifetime of LMS,

passen have travelled 1,130,000,000 e Kera miles for each fatal casualty due to train accidents. A very

century,

trafle

were

of

parish

11

Church?

"DETA

removal. The question arose because complaints were made that the memorial plaque had been desecrated during dances. Beur had been thrown over it, it was said, and on one occasion a wreath was taken away and found later at Leamington Spa. But now some of the villagers are organising a tion for the plaque to stay where it Memorial is on the grounds that the Hall belongs to the village wherea all the villagers are not connected with the Church. To scillo the matter once and for all another meeting Was called for October twenty-four."

Summoned at Nottingham for not devastated countries

having

a dog licence, Mrs Terry of ent

Grannie drive, Nottingham, protest- The LMS alone

tlus will

save

Europe. Ninety-seven of them have already been delivered to 300,000 tons of enal, and more coul

Czecho- ed that she should have been re- will be left to factories or homes by After considerable research

and

Slovakia. Poland and Yugo-Slavia minded by the authorities. "I am under also experiment, containers for merchan-

rehabili- other main railway networks

an UNBRA transport

brought here just because of a slip brought

of the memory," she complained. into tation scheme. The speed with which converting to all burning. Exten-dise sive rationalisation and, with it, general use in the late Twenties, the order has been executed can be "If I forget my income tax I get a extensive saving of time, material and costs The advantage of container trans-regarded as one of the main factors nice letter reminding me. If I over- I also receive a re- introduction of electrie track circuits has been applies to overhauling the port-reduced packing costs, less in avoiding a severe dislocation in

loolt my rates

my wireless 1 forget minder. stations rolling-stock. on the main lines and at

risks of damage and pilferage, the food distribution in those countries. of the

licence and I get three reminders. benets of door-to-door service- and junctions has been one of great steps towards greater safely. In 1933 the LMS established #strongly appealed to the public and It goes without saying that normal-But when I forget my dog licence I

plea device by scientife

end up here." Despite her research department to the stock of LMS containers rapidly export orders are mounting rapidly section concentrate all

seven and sixpence no inta 11

In the books of Britain's locomotive rose from 1,800 in 1920 to 8,000

was fined of line is automatically protected by single unit for the needs of all de 1938.

building industry. Eventually, mil- that she wouldn't forget next time. Insulated partments. signale. The section is

The chemical and paint

lions of peoples of all nations and Stopped Runaway. Horse The textile

container stock is of together with

climates will be able to share with

year-old Douglas Twenty and electric current switched into laboratories,

types, some Atled internally for the British 'people the advantage of Freer of Nelson Street, Market Har- the *pecific traße, such as furniture, employing the best post-war pro- borough, was discharged from bicycles or confectionery, and others ducts of any railway engineering in- Army two years ago, with nerves are constructed with special insulndustry.

shattered by London air ralds. To- day he is the hero of the town. While cycling through the town Freer saw a heavy earthorse gallop-

a group In madly towards children in a busy shopping contro gave pulling a cart behind it. He chase on his bicycle, dismounted and himself at the horse's head ond flung

foot from. pulled 11 to a stop barely a two prams with babies inside. No- body was hurt and when the owner collected the

A track cireult is a which a train occupying a

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According To Culbertson

(Copyright, 1946, by Ely Culbertson)

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THAT SOUNDS EXACTLY LIKE A PIECE OF MUSIC BY BEETHOVEN-~YOU'LL

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the point of sheer altruism! On the second trump lend he took the ocension, by discarding the club ten, to assure West that he need have no fear concerning the club sult, and on the third spude East completed this

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bit of partner soothing by discarding roof at Radford, Coventry, where on the diamond ten. Obviously, when Sunday evenings the Joy of Savoy West got in he could lead either din-patrons is passed by the choir monds or clubs with aplomb!

Unfortunately, West could not have gained the lead with the proverbial crowbar, but South did gain invalu- able information about the winning way to play, the hand. Knowing East to be an honest signaller. South was in no doubt concerning the location of the minor-suit kings. So he merely cashed his hearts (to strip that suit), then led the club queen to the act, eschewing the fine, and returned dummy's second club.

East, in with the club king he had so prominently advertised, now was helpless. A diamond return was pa- tently brd, so he led another club. That was just as bad, however, be- cause South distarded a diamond while he ruffed in dummy.

It East had, dono no. signalling whatsoever, South almost certainly would have taken both minor-suit Anesses, and lost the slam:

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they proceed upstairs to the room in which services are This unusual combination results from recent discovery that o hall being used for services (the church was blitzed) was unsafe so the Savoy management offered the bali-

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Yunnan-Indo-China.

Railway Negotiations

Nanking,

Nov. 11-Talks on technical aspects of the Sino-Franch Treaty regarding the Yunnan-Indo- China Railway have entered the finst stage and are progressing smoothly,

was learned to-night.

Foreign Dr Wang Shih-chleh, Minister, entertained M. Jacques. Meyrier, French

Ambasador.. to China, and members of the French delegation at a luncheon party at the Foreign Minister's official residence to-dayCentral Nows

RIOTS IN TEHERAN

Teheran, Nov. 11 (UP)-In pre election cloting between Tudch (pro- Communist) railway workers and government supporters, one workter was killed and eight seriously injur ed in a battle which occurred in the railway station.

The Tudch press blamed Premier Chavam's Democratic Party sub- the porters, but apparently it was rullway police who fred on the Tudeh demonstrators.