From the Kearney Files
Glasgow Herald 20th. August 1919
Glasgow and Kearney Railway System
The deputation pointed out that there was a feeling on the part of the public that a car on a single line would capsize, but Mr. Kearney said that when a car had been built on the track it could not be got off and that, therefore, his system was much safer than the ordinary rail. "Ordinary members of the public think it is unsafe," he added "but when they have seen it they are absolutely satisfied."
The visitors watched with great interest the working of the model railway. A couple of cars built to scale were run on a single semi - circular track, with a gradient of 1 in 7 at each end, which combined with a sharp curve at the bottom, gave a maximum resistance. It demonstrated the possibility of working trains safely in both directions on a single track, one train controlling the other, which remained insulated in a double line section of the track until the first train entered the section. A speed of 20 miles an hour was attained by the model trains and the ease of control on the gradients was a specially interesting feature.
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