ELECTRIC RAILWAY

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21378, 30 December 1932, Page 7

ELECTRIC RAILWAY

LONDON TO BRIGHTON OPENING OF NEW SERVICE • ' // (Received December 29, 0.15 p.m.) British Wireless RUGBY. Dec. 28 The Lord Mayor of London, Sir Percy Greenaway, and the Lady Mayoress, will open the Southern Railway's new electrified line from London to Brighton on Friday. '

The new service, for which luxuriouslyequipped coaches have been built, wil! operate from Sunday.

New trains, each costing £35,000, will accomplish the London-Brighton journey of 50 miles in a non-stop run of 60 minutes.

Ihe electrification of the line to the coast towns represents a £2,700,000 scheme, the first half of which was completed 'when the service to Three Bridges was opened on July .17. At the outset it was calculated that the full scheme would not be in • operation until next March. Very considerable ingenuity and enterprise has been shown in the provision of a service that is designed to provide speed with safety. The trains that have been built are specially streamlined, and the third-class carriages are held to be as comfortable as those hit her! o provided for first-class passengers. The inaugural ion of the Three Bridges service led to the running of 61 trains there daily from London, instead of 27. When the full service is in operation it is intended to provide a train to Brighton every/ quarter of an hour. The trains Jjre to be capable of running at a speed of 70 miles an hour.