ELECTRIC ENGINE
WELLINGTON SERVICE
ARRIVAL FROM ENGLAND
Built for the Wellington-Paekakariki main line service, the first streamlined electric locomotive to be constructed in England was brought to Auckland on Thursday afternoon from Liverpool by the Federal Line steamer Cambridge. Partly dismantled for shipping, the locomotive, is carried in two cases as deck cargo, and will be unloaded At Wellington.
The engine, which was shipped from the Preston works of the English Electric Company, is capable of drawing a 250-ton passenger train at 60 miles an hour and a 500-ton goods train at 45 miles an hour. To its design seven more electric locomotives will be built in New Zealand for the same service, and two of somewhat similar type for the Arthur's Pass-Otira service.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 36, 12 February 1938, Page 13
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124ELECTRIC ENGINE Evening Post, Volume CXXV, Issue 36, 12 February 1938, Page 13
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