The name Silver Subllee has, with the King's consent, been given to engine No, 5,552, the' first engine to be built at the IMS. Crewe works of the latest express passenger type. 'This class of engine, of which 80 are to be constructed this "year, will be known as the "Jubilee" class, 'The, Coronation, which was constructed at Crewe works in Coronation year, weighs 99 tons, as compared with 184" tons of Silver' Jubilee, and thas a tractive effort of 20,0661b. com pared with the Silver Jublee's 26,- 6101, "The London "and North= Eastern Railway have decided to operate a high speed train between Neweastle and London, timed to do the journey of 268 miles in four hours by a train which will be named Silver Jubilee. The accommodation fon the train will be limited. The reposal is experimental, and is to ascertain whether the public demand for such limited trains of a high-speed character is sufficient to warrant their provision as a permanent feature. It will not begin before October 1.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.