New Rolling Stock.

During the past twelve months, the four Home railways have placed in traffic 327 new locomotives, nearly 2,000 new passenger carriages, 22,000 goods wagons, and over 600 rail-road containers. On the London, Midland and Scottish line, 110 new locomotives have been provided, 732 new passenger vehicles, and 9,715 new goods wagons, this being, of course, our largest group railway. The L. & N.E. Railway figures were: 84 new engines, 730 carriages, 8,500 goods wagons, and 300 containers. Incidentally, the new L. & N.E. rolling stock included complete new “Flying Scotsman” trains, and a new “Hook of Holland” train for service between Liverpool Street and Harwich. New trains, also, were introduced on the recently electrified lines between Newcastle and South Shields, as well as in the North Tyneside electric services. New rolling-stock introduced by the Great Western included 122 locomotives, 274 passenger vehicles, and 2,770 goods wagons, the latter including refrigerator trucks for Cornish brocoli and Irish rabbit traffic. By the Southern there have been placed in traffic 11 new steam locomotives, 234 electric carriages, and 898 goods wagons.