London, Nov. 4.
On top of the announcement on October 30 of the programme of the London & North-Eastern Railway, there comes another today by the Great" Western Railways, which intend to spend over £2,000,000 in 1934 on new rolling stock and in relaying lines.
One of the features of th gramme will be 10 new "castle" engines enabling a big speeding up fof journeys. There are also in-eluded in the programme 200 new passenger vehicles in which the ease lof travellers will be specially studied, and new freight vans that will be as fast as passenger trains.
The plan also includes construction vacuum filled vans for express freight services, and over 1,000 other 13-ton vans, In addition to id wolving the use of 30,000 tons of ils, more than 600,000 sleepers and 185,600 cubic yards of ballast. These. ditions, involve large orders and more employment in many branches of British industry—Reuter.
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