Travellers on the Shanghai-Nanking Railway Complain of the Cold: Steps to Improve Heating in Cars Nanking, Jan, 17.
Recent complaints regarding the cold and discomfort of the Shang-hal-Nanking Railway have led to thorough investigation of the conditions by the staff of the Ministry of Railways and the Nanking-Shanghai Railway Administration. The report of the investigators: shows that dissatisfaction arose rom the following causes:
"1—Some of the first and second class coaches and sleeping cars were not previously tilted with steam heating' pipes. It was only Inst autumn that all cars were equipped with steam heating apparatus ready Yor use in the winter season. xpectediy, the weather has been 60 Severe this winter that during the coldest days the pipes installed in' the coaches either froze or gave steam heat on the front portion only.
Sometimes, during the jour- pi ney, the steam heat would not cir-Culate on account of the freezing of the pipes and a burst-pipe was the '2—Formerly only eight or at the angst mine coaches. were attached to} an engine in forming a train, but, fat present, on account of the increase of the passenger traffic, the trains have to be formed with a greater number of coaches. As a Fesult of this, the engines are not powerful enough to supply sufficient Bteam to the-pipes. Hence the me adequacy of the heating.
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