The Modern Goods Train.

Freight business continues brisk on the Home lines. Improvements in goods train services and terminal working are constantly being introduced, and an overnight service between points 400 to 600 miles apart is now general. These accelerated goods train services are high in public favour, and they maintain a wonderful punctuality record. The old idea of a goods train, lumbering along at fifteen to twenty miles an hour, and constantly being shunted to permit the passage of other trains, is now almost a memory. The problem of the large versus the small freight train always arouses considerable discussion, but in Britain relatively light goods trains, booked at express speed, are largely increasing in number.

Not only are goods train services being accelerated on every side in Britain, but particular attention is being paid to the elimination of careless handling of small consignments.

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