§ 84. Sir R. Glynasked the Minister of Transport the number of locomotive failures on the railways in 1946 compared with 1938; and what were the main causes of the failures.
§ Mr. BarnesThere were 10,152 locomotive failures on the railways in 1946 as compared with 5,724 in 1938. The principal causes were fractures, hot bearings and failures of injectors, joints, boiler tubes and vacuum brakes.