BRITISH RAILWAYS
ELECTRIFICATION PROPOSALS A HUGE UNDERTAKING (British Official Wireless.) Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright. RUGBY, April 24. The report of the committee, consisting of Lord Weir, Sir Ralph Wedgwood and Sir William M'Clintock, which has been examining the economic and other aspects of electrification of the British railways, is published. The conclusion reached is that a complete electrification scheme is both feasible and desirable and that a capital expenditure estimated to approach £400,000,000 spread over 11 fteen or twenty years would yield a good return. The scheme is admittedly of unique magnitude, hut the committee points out that £500,000,000 has been spent in the last ten years on roads. The Prime Minister (Mr Ramsay MacDonald), in opening the new electricity show rooms at Aylesbury last night, said that the development of electricity was going to bo one of t)io most important events in the industrial and domestic history of the country'.
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Evening Star, Issue 20778, 28 April 1931, Page 9
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