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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 3, Issue 4 (August 1, 1928)

Wagon Performance

Wagon Performance.

For some time now the Home railways have been in the fortunate position of being able to meet without discomfort the whole of the demands of traders for goods wagons. In this connection there has recently been issued by the London and North Eastern Railway an illuminating statement describing the freight wagon position on the line throughout 1927. At December 31st, 1927, there were some 271, 434 goods and coal wagons (excluding cattle trucks and locomotive coal wagons) in use on the L. and N.E. system. The total number of journeys originating on the line with freight and coal traffic in railway-owned vehicles during 1927 was 13,430,282, so that each wagon performed on the average rather more than 49 journeys, or one trip in 6.3 days.

In the busiest week in 1927 the total number of wagons actually loaded on the L. and N.E. line was 280,811, and therefore during that period the average round-trip time of each wagon was 5.8 days. The stock of wagons owned by the L. and N.E. Railways includes 7,183 live stock trucks and 2,895 fish wagons. The heaviest individual load carried during the year 1927 was an ingot mould weighing 100 tons, which was conveyed suspended on a special girder fixed at each end to pivotal cradles erected on two flat trucks, each of 60 tons carrying capacity.