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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 7, Issue 5 (September 1, 1932)

Our London Correspondent

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Our London Correspondent

Mr. Arthur L. Stead

Mr. Arthur L. Stead

Since the publication of the first London Letter in the March, 1927, issue of our Magazine, we have received many expressions of appreciation of the interesting and able manner in which the author has reviewed, and interpreted, month by month, the story of railway progress in different parts of the world. From their inception the Letters have been characterised by wide knowledge of contemporary railway developments, clarity of statement, a fine optimism concerning the future of the railways, and a wealth of information covering the whole field of railway transport, giving them definite value to our readers as a source of authoritative reference upon railway and transportation matters generally. In future the Letters will appear under the name of their author, Mr. Arthur L. Stead, whose photograph, together with a brief biographical sketch, is reproduced on this page.

Mr. Stead, who has adopted as his slogan, “Really Dependable Railway Information Attractively Imparted,” has had considerable railway experience, having served for some twenty years in various departments of one of the leading British railways.

On the outbreak of the Great War he served first as a trooper in H.M. Life Guards, then as a Commissioned Officer with railway troops and Royal Engineers in France, Belgium and Germany, and later as District Traffic Officer with military light railways at Arras and Armentieres. Subsequently he was Railway Staff Officer with the Rhine Army, serving in Colonge, Herbesthal, and other places in this region.

He commenced spare-time journalism about 1913, resigning from the railway service in 1926 to take up journalism as a definite profession. Since that time he has been a regular contributor to railway and engineering publications in Britain and overseas, as well as being a regular contributor to the general Press, and is one of the pioneers of the London Letter for overseas railway journals.

Mr. Stead is the author of “Light Railway Working on the Western Front,” which was favourably reviewed in the Official War Transportation Issue of the Railway Gazette, the Engineer, and Engineering.

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