Identifier: cassiersmagazi2719041newy Title: Cassier's magazine Year: 1891 (1890s) Authors: Subjects: Engineering Publisher: New York Cassier Magazine Co. Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries Digitizing Sponsor: Smithsonian Libraries

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Text Appearing Before Image: It will be understoodthat, in many cases, it is only by the 88 CASSIERS MAGAZINE best of management that the trains canbe made to pay at all. These local re-strictions also add to the difficulties oftraffic working, owing to the fact thatfour or five trains have to be run where,were the line reasonably level, one wouldsuffice; and thus the line, all of whichis^single, except for six miles near Dur-ban, is probably one of the busiestsingle-track lines in the world. With so large a traffic the cross-ing stations, where trains of opposite account of trains being kept waiting.As a consequence of these conditionsof traffic working, although there areseveral trains which are called ex-presses (and are so in the sense thatthey are not cumbered with a lot of in-termediate station-to-station traffic, andthey are somewhat faster than the slowtrains), the fast trains have many otherstops besides those which appear in thepublic time tables. When these factsare borne in mind, such time allowances

Text Appearing After Image: DRUMMOND STATION, SHOWING TYPICAL ARRANGEMENT OF SIDINGS TO ALLOW TRAINS TO PASS ONE ANOTHER direction can pass one another and fastertrains can pass and overtake a slowertrain in the same direction, have to benumerous, and it is nothing unusual tofind crossing operations taking placeat almost every station. All the crossings are arranged forin the working time tables ; but iftrains are running late or out of order,which with traffic of this kind must in-evitably occur several times a day, orspecial or duplicate trains are being run,the crossings have to be rearrangedby telegraph by the station masters con-cerned in such way as will best expeditematters and prevent undue delay on as 229 minutes for 70^ miles, which isthe booking of the weekly corridordining express (to be described later)between Durban and Pietermaritzburg,without any intermediate publiclybooked stops, appear quite presentable. There are numerous other stations atwhich, if specials are running or trainsare running lat

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