britain's latest streamlined locomotives.

High-Speed trains are now in regular daily service between London and Scotland on both the London, Midland & Scottish, and London & North Eastern routes, out of Euston and King's Cross stations respectively. Commencing 5th July, the L. M. & S. Company's new flyer—“The Coronation Scot”—hauled by streamlined engines, covers the Euston-Glasgow journey in 6½ hours, the fastest regular timing ever recorded for the 401½ miles run. On the same date, the L. & N.E. put into service “The Coronation,” a streamlined express performing the 392 miles journey between King's Cross and Edinburgh daily in the record time of six hours. Five powerful streamlined “Pacific” locomotives were specially built for this service in the Doncaster railway shops, and these have very appropriately been named “Dominion of New Zealand,” “Dominion of Canada,” “Commonwealth of Australia,” “Union of South Africa,” and “Empire of India.” New Zealand railway folk will be particularly pleased to know that this crack train of the Homeland is regularly hauled by a magnificent streamlined locomotive bearing the nameplate of the Dominion, and that at the naming ceremony the L. & N.E. Railway were honoured by the presence of the New Zealand High Commissioner in London.

In years gone by, when more than one hundred individual railway systems served Britain, locomotives and rolling-stock of almost every conceivable colour were seen in traffic. Nowadays, we have only four huge group systems providing transportation, but as each group has adopted a different colour scheme for its engines and carriages, a little pleasant variety is still given to railway travel. L. M. & S. passenger locomotives and carriages are painted in crimson-lake, similar to that once favoured by the Midland Railway; on the L. & N.E. line the majority of the passenger engines are painted green, and the passenger coaches brown; the G.W. favours green for its locomotives, and chocolate and cream for its passenger stock; while on the Southern system engines and coaches are painted dark green. In connection with new Railway Clearing House arrangements for goods wagon painting, in which the initials of the owning company are now in small lettering over the wagon number, the L. M. & S. is repainting its freight rolling-stock in what is known as “bauxite red”—a light brown tint. L. & N.E. wagons are painted in a distinctive dark grey; G.W. light grey; and those of the S.R. dark brown. Incidentally, by omitting the large white letters formerly employed on wagon sides, showing the owning company, a considerable annual saving is being effected in paint.