Home Railways' Stipulation in Ordering Material London, Jan. 9. rectors of the London and:
stern Railway at a meet ing to-da decided to. place orders with Bri steel reils, The Company recently announced that all its new contracts of steel of "British manufacte throughout" thas eliminating vaily in the manufacture of which ign origin had entered.
The policy of the Company, which lias also been adopted by oth is being warmly commended. At the same time the latest reports from manufacturing centres reflect a decided improve the iron and steel trade, which, it is hoped, is now on its way to recovery from its prolong-depression—Britith Wireless Through Reuter.
During the whole of the there has been only one wonger accident on British ra In reporting this fact the "Railway Gazette" adds. that even this solitary fatality would probably pol have occurred if the passenger concerned hail not suffered from! fatty degeneration of the heart. Ju two years of the present century, 1901 and 1908, no fatality en Brit In commenting 02 this satisfactory immunity Sir Herbert Walker, the authority on railways, attributes it to the care taken in the construction permanent way railway equipment and railway stock and to the discipline of and precautions taken by the railway staff, He adds that the density of railway trafic in Great Britain is as great as any in world and the average speed British trains is greater than in any ther country.—British Wirele3s through Reuter.
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