BRITISH RAILWAYS.
NEW EXPANSION SCHEME,
British Official Wireless.
RUGBY, November 6.
A scheme of railway development works extending over five years and costing £30,000,000, for which a loan to be guaranteed as to principal and interest by the Exchequer will be raised, has been agreed upon following negotiations between the Government and the four main railway companies. Only granting of the necessary powers by Parliament is awaited before the programme is put in hand.
In addition to reconstruction and enlarging of stations and goods yards, building of rolling stock and laying of new branch and looplines, the scheme includes extension of the automatic train-control installation, coloured light signalling and other safety precautions, also electrification. When completed, the electrical services from London, which already run to Brighton and Eastbourne, will extend to Portsmouth, Arundel and Hastings.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXVI, Issue 264, 7 November 1935, Page 7
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