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Electric Railway Under The Tyne 1954.

on July 19, 2021

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Courtesy of The Kearney Society Archive 2021.

Newspaper cuttings from 1954, costs of Elfric's scheme.

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Brisbane 1931, Map showing Kangaroo Point.

From the Kearney Files.

Kearney High Speed Railway in Moscow 1933

From the Kearney Files Sydney Sun March 24th. 1933 Treated like a Prince Mr. Chalmers Kearney the Australian who had been engaged on enterprises for the Soviet. Informed a representative of the "Sunday Sun" that if his plans for an underground railway now being carried into effect, were successful large sums would be spent on transport facilities in 1933. "There has long been intense opposition to my scheme" declared Mr. Kearney. "This attracted the attention of the Soviet to my railway and they invited me to Moscow". "I was treated like a Prince and given 100,000 roubles for expenses, I was entertained and supplied with a motor car and chauffeur and accommodation in a luxurious suite.

Alfred Warwick Gattie. "Early Kearneyite"

The Society of Engineers lecture by Elfric Comments by Alfred Warwick Gattie. (Chairman of the New Transport Co Ltd) From the Kearney Files. Said he would at once nail his colours to the mast : he was a confirmed "Kearneyite".The Kearney tube system means the acceleration of a train at starting by means of gravity, then the economic use of velocity thus cheaply acquired and finally the use of gravity as a means of retardation in bringing the train to a standstill without any of the expensive concomitants of friction. These advantages must be fully apparent to any engineer. He would like to translate in a few words what Mr. Kearney's system meant in terms of money, which, again, meant terms of energy. There were some millions of men and women coming into and going out of London every day. If those people could be saved a quarter of an hour on their journey it would come to about four million man - hours per day. And if a man - hour were priced the same as that for...

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Electric Railway Under The Tyne 1954.

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