Part 8 of Railway Wonders of the World was published on Friday 22nd March 1935.
This issue contained a photogravure supplement featuring Head On photographs of some famous locomotives.
The Cover
The cover featured LMS Royal Scot No. 6121 “Grenadier Guardsman” hauling an express. This cover was later used as the colour plate issued with part 27.
This part moves on from 15 in and 20 in gauge systems to describe the Festiniog and Lynton & Barnstaple railways. Concluded from part 7.
Click on the small image to see a short British Pathe newsreel clip “Peter Pan’s Puff Puff” (1927) on the opening of the Romney Hythe & Dymchurch Railway.
A vivid account of the luxury express which runs between London and Paris via Dover and Calais. This service forms one of Great Britain’s most important links with the Continent, and operates daily from Victoria Station.
This is the fourth article in the series on Famous Trains.
A photo-feature, comprising the central photogravure supplement of this issue. It illustrates “head-on” views of American, Canadian, British and German locomotives. The contrasts are notable, each type having almost a strictly “national” air about it.
An account of the Whitemoor Marshalling Yards. The inside story of how freight wagons are automatically sorted and made up into trains for different destinations. The Whitemoor Yards are among the most remarkable of all centres for the sorting of wagons into trains for the distribution of goods to all parts of the country.
Click on the small image to see a short British Pathe newsreel clip called “See how they run!” showing the operation of Whitemoor Yard in 1931.
This Colossus of the Canadian National Railway
A full page illustration of CNR No.6148 (a 4-8-4 Class U-2-c).
This colossus of the Canadian National Railways, weighing, with tender, about 290 tons, has no difficulty in starting from rest with its great train of cars. When running, control of the vast load is ensured by the Westinghouse brake equipment fitted throughout the length of the train. This type of engine ranks among the most powerful in the Dominion of Canada, its eight-coupled wheels giving a maximum tractive power of 69,700 lb.
How the Westinghouse automatic air brake works. One of the most vital items of railway equipment simply described with special diagrams. The Westinghouse Air Brake is used on London's Underground and on electric trains of the Southern Railway.
A description of the railways of the North Island. The Auckland-Wellington line, with its twenty-two viaducts varying in length from 200 ft to 1,185 ft, and its thirty tunnels of from 250 ft to 3,515 ft, provides a striking testimony of the work and vision of man.
