The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1907-01-05
ENGLISH LOCOMOTIVES.
Real antiques Highly Cherished in 1t.
ally and Elsewhere.

Real antiques Highly Cherished in It
ally and Elsewhere.
When the italian government decid-
ed upon Matchmaking the railway sys-
tenn, and began last year by taking
over the management of the two great
Mediterranean and Sicilian companies
IL soon found that the shortage of To-
connective power, and rolling stock
brought about by the old adrnihistra-
ton, threatened to give rise to an eco
nomic crisis.
To tide over pressing needs, a state
commissioner was dispatched to this
country for the purpose Of picking up
some secondhand locomotives, If pos
sble. AS a result of his visit a num-
Der of the Metropolitan Railway COM
panyis old engines, together with 50
old six-coupled goods locomotives of
the Midland railway, are now on their
woy to Italy, The government has all
so placed orders amounting to twenty
million crowns in Austria.
Instances of railway engines being
sold out of the country for service
abroad are now few and far between.
1t was very different in former days,
when Continental RAILWAY men, look
ed to this country for guidance. For
eign engineers then used to GENE to
England to study locomotive practice,
and when they saw type of engine
suited to their requirements they
would arrange with the railway c.m-
pany to buy a specimen, in order that
they might copy it in their own works
One or two ancient London &
Northwestern goods engines, that
changed hands in this manner, are
still at work on a Dutch railway
The fate of all engines is the scrap
heap ultimately, but before this befalls
them, and when nearly worn out, they
may be sold to contractors 0r colliary
proorietors, to end their days in the
least dignified from of light shunting.
The electrifcation of railways has,
however, placed on the market a num-
Der of engines in the highest state of
efficiency The Metropolitan railway,
besides selling some of it's stock to the
italian governemnet, has disposed of
others to the tCambrian RAILWAYS and
to the Bradford corporation The lat
ter use them for working a passenger
and goods service over the Nidd VAL
ley Light railway, which was primar-
lily constructed for conveying mater
ials to the Angran waterworks. The
Mersey railway found considerable diff
ficulty in finding purchasers for its
powerful steam engines, and all are
not yet sold. The london, Brighton &
South Coast company have recently
done a deal with the Isle of Wright
railways over a few Of their pretty
little tank engines, known as the "Ter-
riers" and some pf the same class,
still lgarbed in their gamboge-colored
livery and, and bearing Sussex names,
were to be seen doing contractors
work in the heart of Buckinghamshire
durin the construction of the
Great Western and Great Central joint
line to High Wycombe.
1t is a pity that more of the histor-
ic ENGINES cannot be saved from the
scrap-neap and preserve as mementos
like the fRocket" in South Kensingtan
museum, the Experiment" of the
Stockton & Darlington railway, which
stands on pedestal in Darlington
station, and the ''Invicta," of the Cam
terbury and Whitstaable railway.
which was recently presented to the
city of Canterbury by Sir David Solo
MONS and set up in the "'Dane John"
The Great Western company pre-
serve the name-plaes of their veterans
and on one side of the motion of the
Lord of the Isles has been present.
ed to the Swindon Technical school,
Lond2n Mail.