From The Kearney Files
Coolgardie Miner (WA) December 1904
HIGH SPEED RAILWAYS
Mr. Elfric W Chalmers Kearney a young Australian engineer has projected a high speed railway to run from London to the South Coast in thirty minutes at a rate of 120 mph.
AUSTRALIAN COMMENTS.
What we want now is some Australian engineer to show us how to build a railway from Kalgoorlie to the east on which speeds of 100 miles an hour could be maintained at a cost not absolutely prohibitive. We are getting turbine steamers on the Australian coast capable of beating the speediest racehorse that ever won the Melbourne Cup. When one thinks of vessels of 10,000 tons capacity being driven through the water at a speed of 25 knots per hour the slowness of our present fashion of running trains may be appreciated. There are trains in England and America which run normally for long distances at more than 60 mph. A train going east at that rate a perfectly practicable rate would cut the journey from Kalagoorlie to Adelaide in 22 hours. A person could leave Kalgoorlie after breakfast and be in in time for an early breakfast in Adelaide next morning.
Coolgardie Miner (WA) December 1904
HIGH SPEED RAILWAYS
Mr. Elfric W Chalmers Kearney a young Australian engineer has projected a high speed railway to run from London to the South Coast in thirty minutes at a rate of 120 mph.
AUSTRALIAN COMMENTS.
What we want now is some Australian engineer to show us how to build a railway from Kalgoorlie to the east on which speeds of 100 miles an hour could be maintained at a cost not absolutely prohibitive. We are getting turbine steamers on the Australian coast capable of beating the speediest racehorse that ever won the Melbourne Cup. When one thinks of vessels of 10,000 tons capacity being driven through the water at a speed of 25 knots per hour the slowness of our present fashion of running trains may be appreciated. There are trains in England and America which run normally for long distances at more than 60 mph. A train going east at that rate a perfectly practicable rate would cut the journey from Kalagoorlie to Adelaide in 22 hours. A person could leave Kalgoorlie after breakfast and be in in time for an early breakfast in Adelaide next morning.
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