On the 8th we ran our first running power train, and the Joy
Bells rang in Limerick. The Great Southern threatened us with an
injunction because we began to exercise our powers before the terms of
payment, etc., were fixed between us; but we laughed at threats and went
gaily on our way. Limerick rewarded us by giving us their traffic.
In this last amalgamation year (1900) we were in the Committee Rooms also
in connection with another case--the Kingscourt, Keady and Armagh Railway
Bill; but, I will say no more about it than that we opposed the Bill for
the purpose of obtaining proper protection of Midland interests.
The year 1900 brought a general Act of some importance called the
_Railway Employment (Prevention of Accidents) Act_. It empowered the
Board of Trade to make rules with the object of reducing or removing the
dangers and risks incidental to certain operations connected with railway
working, such as braking of wagons, propping and tow roping, lighting of
stations, protection of point rods and signal wires, protection to
permanent way men, and other similar matters. It also empowered the
Board to employ persons for carrying the Act into effect.
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