Excerpt from Locomotives of 1907The railway service of the United Kingdom was never more efficient than at the present time, and, speaking generally, it would be difficult to find a strict parallel for it in any other part of the world. The weight of the trains comprising the most important passenger services and the average speeds at which they are run, have both had an upward tendency, and the demand for locomotives capable of hauling these increasing loads without any diminution in the average velocity has advanced commensurately.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.