WIRELESS WONDER.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXIX, Issue 3252, 24 June 1911, Page 11

WIRELESS WONDER.

SIGNALLING TO MOVING TRAINS',

An interesting ceremony, in which Miss Marie Corelli played a leading part, was enacted at Stratford-on-Avon on April 24th, when the first Railophone installation for wireless inductive telephony and signalling to and from moving trains was opened at Stratford and Midland Junction Railway Station.

The inventor is an Erdington engineer, Von Kramel by name, and lie claims it is now possible to send and receive messages of every description the speed, or whether it is standing still or in a station.

The system consists of two large frames of electric wires!—one for recovering and the other for sending massages—which may be buried underground or fixed on low posts connecting up signal boxes, or stations, and through them linked up with the general telegraph and telephone system of the country. There is no mechanical contact between the wire and the train. The connection is wireless.

Th* Railophone provides also for the retrieval of an error in signalling. _ and enables the signalman to keep in direct touch with each train, even when it and the signal cannot be seen. Miss, Marie Corelli, after begging a number of irrepressible photographers not to snapshot her, stepped into the call office, fitted up in a marque outside, and transmitted a message to the Mayor of Stratford, who was in a coach. She sent hearty good wishes for_ the success of the Railophone, which meant complete safety for pasengers and the more perfect control of railway traffic. A series of experiments on a moving train proved quite successful.