| Show HAD FAST TRAINS EVEN THEN high speed at which the trav floii fifty aaa if anybody were asked what comparison exists between the speed of rail oad trains now and fifty years ago he would say eliat hardly any can ho made the di 0 arence however is far less than id generally supposed in may the great western railway engine great ih idaia was driven hy engineer from paddington Padding toa to didcoct didcot a fly three miles in forty seven minutes starting and stopping when we that tha brakes in those days were very crude aliis is pretty fast trav eling nor was this done once but repeatedly the broad gauge expresses are frequently timed at alie rate of a mile in forty eight seconds or seventy anve miles an hour and even a higher maximum was attained for short distances the bradshaw for shows that alie morning express was timed to leave paddington at and start again from didcoct didcot at 1047 allowing lour minutes for the stop at didcoct didcot the train must have been officially timed at a mile a minute alie railway records show that the often arrived under time these facts should silence a great many persons who prato about the phe progress recently made in railroad matters in general and rapid transit in particular |
