ELECTRIC TRAINS

Feilding Star, Volume 10, Issue 3931, 14 January 1933, Page 6

ELECTRIC TRAINS

DEVELOPMENT AT HOME (Aust. and N.Z. Cable) London,, January 12. A speed of more than 75 miles an hour was reached during, th e inauguration of the Southern Railway’s ull-uectric route -to Brighton. The service, will include 23 express, brains each day. The ceremony marked the completion of a scheme which lta s , cost £2,750,000, and 99 per cent, of the work lias been carried out by British firms. Development, became possible only after the Central Elr -Iricity Baud embarked on tlm grid scheme of supply for the whole countryTito op-mi, tig coincides with the 50r.1i anniversary of tho first electric railway in tho world. Early limes'employed current at 250 volts, while the supply for the Brighton service is taken from the grid at 132,000 volts and reduced at a series of sub-

The. electrification of the Brighton line has been carried oult otn tire, third rail system, to which the Southern Railway ireccintJ.y w:a s convolved, stages previouv'y having been electrified over head .