The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1885-05-18
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English and American Railway.

Replying TO an article that had pre-
viously appeared in the Pail Mall Ga
zette, a correspondent OF that paper re
Gently wrote as follows:
Your correspondent says "the rur
from New York to Albany Is l40 mile.
80 hours " Remarking that the dis
lance is only III miles, we find that only
one train daily performs the Jour
aoy in 81 hours, and this the Chicago
special, OF which more anon. From New
York TO Albany there are ten train.
daily Il only give them one way
in each case) AL called express
with an average time of hours
and Az minutes, and a journey speed
of 293i miles per hour. The track fol.
lows the course of the Hudson nearly
tho whole way, and is almost n dead
level. Compare this with the "Great
NOrthern," London to Sheffield, sn in.
iinitely harder course. Nine trains in
three hours and 30& minutes-l62 miles
and an average journey speed OF A.
miles per hour-the fastest docs the
journey in three hours and q minutes,
and last summer did II in three hours
and II minutes, q journey speed OF over
so miles an hour. Next New York 20
Boston may fairly be compared with the
accommodation between London and
Manchester. Mr.. Foxwell gives 20 eN-
presses from London TO Manchester, all
trains with third. class carriages,
with an averagej0urnoy speed OF noarly
III miles. Tho fastest last year, the
Great Northern expresses, 203 miles In 4
hours 10 minutes, or 3 journey speed of
Az miles. The two lines RAINING d.
rectly between New York and Boston
give only eight trains daily marked CA
press, distance 233 miles, ana a very
much easter coarse than tho Great
Northerni average timo 7 hours and lG
minutes, giving journey speed OF only
80 miles. The fastest, train Limited
TO Pullman cars, would not be called an
express at all In England, It's speed being
3s3i miles. New York 10 PITTSBURGH may
be compared with London TO GLASGOW,
The former route has five trains daily
marked express Zone OF them the Chica-
80 limit0d6 distance IA miles, average
time II hours - minutes, speed lust nm
der so miles Hu hour. Fastest 70 hours
journey speed 81 miles. Lnnlon to
Glasgow, ID eNpresses--distauce lOl To
40 miles, average speed of all 3S3i miles,
and all hut Que have third class ear
riRges, Fastest, which may bo called "a
limited iran, east coast express, $40
miles, in 10 hours and 20
minutes, a journey speed of
- miles, a word IA TO the two
Chicago specials run as limited trains,
and by which a large extra fare h
charged. / asked "railroadn agent In
the states what their speed was, and he
replied: "Fifty miles an hour right
through" Dir. Bigelow says they run
from New York TO Chicago in a hours,
both of them really taking 26lS hours.
One is run by tho Pennsylvania COM
pany, and has n distance of 0i2 miles to
travel; the other by the New York Cen
trail and about 07S miles, giving speeds
of 81 and 80 s miles per hour. These
trans are only for those who can afford
to pay n high fare, and for accommoda-
ten 10 the general public compare badly
with the third-class trains to Glas.
gov; the American, with q daily dis
tance OF nearly 1000 miles, at a spsed of
BOO miles, the English trains running
upward of 5000 miles Mt an average speed
OF nearly 30 miles, Az might be OK.
pected, the fastest travelling In America
Is between the two largest towns, New
York and Philadelphia; taking ali the
trains both ways that make the Journey
az over 40 miles an hour, tipd there arc
II by the Pennsylvania, with an average
speed of 1870 10 miles, and six by the
Bound Brook route, with an average
of 124 miles. Between Liverpool aud
Manchester, much smaller towns, there
are % trains daily ut q greater speed 30
by the Manchester, Shonleld & Lincoln
company, four averaging Oh l8 miles,
aud y, 10 ~ miles, and 20 10y tho Lon
don Il Northwestern, NJ speed of Is
miles. For the above comparisons
every train In America that has a
speed Of over 40 miles an hour for any
part OF It's course has been used, b0t
although the result is 40 very much in
favor Of the speed of English trains, not
ono-half oil the latter have been brought
into requisitiOn. The fact Is, the Amor.
leans 10 not know bow slow their
trains are, and 10 Is quite time the idea
that their "ligntning expresses" and
"thunderbOlt tralnsn eclipse every.
thing else In the world was exploded.
Compared with the beet trains In Amer
lea, the English ones exceed them In
speed quite . per cent, aud il one
goes for instances to anywhere more
than 800 miles from New Yerk, the COM
parison becomes absurd.