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Chris Leonard
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"An Idea Whose Time Never Came"

03/21/2006 12:59 PM

More than 100 years ago, the British public was enamored with the promise of an "Atmospheric Railway." Propulsion would come from a piston moving inside an evacuated tube. The tube would run the entire length of track. A "strut running through a groove in the top of the tube" connected the piston to the train.

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Great Story!!!

03/21/2006 2:59 PM

I guess timing really is everything. 10-15 years later the idea would have been a success.
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on time

03/22/2006 4:50 AM

There's a pub near Exiter that's on the route of one of the old atmospheric railways. On the wall is an origional timetable and a current one. The Atmospheric railway was several minutes faster!
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Atmospheric and Pneumatic Railways

03/22/2006 8:50 AM

http://www.davros.org/rail/atmospheric.html Bob
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