The Tramways Exhibition at the Agricultural Hall

Abstract

THE International Tramways and Light Railways Exhibition which came to an end on Saturday last must be regarded as having been very successful from all points of view. The opening ceremony was performed by Mr. Gerald Balfour on July 1, and was accompanied by the usual luncheon and speeches. Mr. Gerald Balfour alluded, as might have been expected, to the recent deputation to his Department on the subject of electrical legislation, but he did not evince any sign of having become convinced of the necessity for speedy reform. In other respects the speeches were not of much interest; the same may be said to be true to a certain extent of the proceedings of the International Tramways and Light Railways Congress, which held its meetings on July 1 and 2. The Congress, which was the twelfth held by the Union internationale permanente de Tramways, was the first to be held in London; the papers read and discussed dealt with the management and technical details of tramway schemes, and were most of them contributed by the engineers or managers of continental tramways. Many of them were very valuable, especially as they were based on the results of wide practical experience, but we doubt if they would prove of great interest to the readers of NATURE.