Huge Passenger Station.

Plans were recently approved (and construction work commenced) on a large new railway station for the city of Cincinnati, U.S.A. The Pennsylvania, and the six other railroads which operate trains in and out of that city, are collaborating in this project, which has been described as one of the most important in the transportation history of the States. The new station terminal is to cost approximately £10,000,000, and, when completed, will be one of the finest and most up-to-date railway terminals in the world. The station is to be of the through type, thus enabling the maximum number of trains to be received and dispatched daily. The Traffic congestion is being provided against by elevating the passenger tracks above the freight tracks.

In a country where there are 22,000,000 motor vehicles, and thousands of miles of good roads, the expenditure of such an immense sum of money on a railway station terminal can be regarded as an important vote of confidence in the future of rail transportation.

Mr. G. S. Lynde, O.B.E., A.M.I.Mech.E., M.I. Lcco.E., Chief Mcchanical Engineer of the New Zealand Railways, leaves for Australia by the S.S. Maunganui on 2nd March, to attend, as New Zealand's representative, the Australian and New Zealand Railways General Officers' Conference. This year's Conference will be held in Melbourne.