Overall Assessment
The atmospheric system foresaw the inherent efficiencies of delivering centrally generated power to the line side rather than generating it on individual locomotives, as would ultimately become the normal practice with electrification systems. The use of modern materials and technology would overcome many of the problems of the original systems, but atmospheric railways were ultimately too inflexible for widespread use.
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