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The standard locomotive in use on the Federated 
Malay States Railway is of Pacific type and weighs 
engine only, 55 tons, engine and tender 75 tons. 
The present maximum axle load is 12 tons, but the 
future maximum now allowed for in specifications 
is 16 tons. A few Mallet type articulated locomo- 
tives are also in use. 
The fuel for these locomotives is now obtained 
from the Malayan Collieries near Rawang, but 
previous to the development of this coal field, Bakau 
wood, cut from the Bakau swamps, was largely used, 
supplemented by imported coal. 
All the passenger vehicles are bogie stock, 
corridor type. The standard goods wagon is a 10 
ton four-wheeled vehicle, but there are, of course, 
special vehicles in use. 
Probably in no other country in the world 
has railway development been so rapid as in the 
Federated Malay States and it is a remarkable fact 
that up to the year 1922 the money to construct 
this fine system of Railways has been obtained 
from the revenue of the Federated Malay States as 
a whole. 
The Peninsula offers a fine field for the tourist 
and attractions for those who are merely birds of 
passage en route to the Far East. Travellers ar- 
riving by outward bound boats can disembark at 
Penang and have sufficient time to travel through 
the Federated Malay States and rejoin their boats 
at Singapore. This will admit of a break in the 
journey at either Ipoh or Kuala Lumpur, or probably 
both, which will well repay the trouble taken. There 
is of course ample scope for the tourist wishing to 
spend a week or a month in the Peninsula. There 
