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When Britain's 17-mile Sheffield Park Branch Railway opened back in 1882, the Sussex countryside" through which it ran was so thickly strewn with wildflowers that passengers had only to reach out the window to pick bouquets of bluebells and primroses. But over the years, despite the railway's much admired charm, modern highways with their rumbling trucks and beetling cars drained away its traffic. In 1955, struggling to cut the losses of Britain's nationalized railways, the Transport Ministry marked the "Bluebell and Primrose" for extinction...
...four trains a day, and it took another three years, with the line losing $160,000 a year, for the Transport Ministry to find a way around the law and stop service. Workmen were already ripping up the tracks when Britain's antique-railroad buffs founded the Bluebell Railway Preservation Society and asked to buy the surviving 4½ miles of trackage. To discourage them, the ministry named a stiff price: $90,000. In consolation, it offered to rent them the old Sheffield Park booking office for 5 shillings (70? ) a week...
...even 6 ft., weighs 202 Ibs., and although by baseball's terms he is known as a wrist hitter, the description is not quite accurate. "Maris," says Yankee Coach Ralph Houk, "is powerful all over." Raised in North Dakota, the son of a supervisor for the Great Northern Railway, he was a phenomenal high school football player. But as he himself admits, Maris is something less than cum laude off the athletic field, and though scouted as a promising halfback by the University of Oklahoma, he got no further than high school. Says he: "I guess I wasn...
Died. Lucian C. Sprague, 74, "the doctor of sick railroads," a onetime Burlington call boy for train crews (at age 13), who in 1935 was named president and receiver of the languishing Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway, eight years later saw his improvements end its bankruptcy, but was ousted in 1954 by an insurgent stockholders' group for his "gravy-train" extravagances, including a personal expense account of $226 per day; of a heart attack; in Minneapolis...
Stockholders of the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad were as popular last week as a fare cut to commuters. Three weeks ago the money-making Chesapeake & Ohio Railway offered to buy 80% of the B. & O.'s stock, and won the blessing of B. & O.'s management. Last week the New York Central Railroad, afraid of such a merger, which would create the second largest railroad in the U.S. and make competitive life hard for the Central, also made a move to woo B. & O. stockholders...