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Otago Witness, Issue 3882, 7 August 1928, Page 29

After some months’ work, the boring of the sides and roof of the Lyttelton tunnel and the installation of the fittings to carry the overhead wire, under the electrification scheme, have now been finished, and operations are at present confined to the outside work (reports the Christchurch Sun). The wiring of the tunnel will be left until -the very last. Ihe overhead work in the Christchurch yard is well in hand, though there are several adjustments to be made to the existing system of telegraph wires before it can be finished. At the Lyttelton end there are four poles yet to be erected on the Gladstone pier. The Public Works Department is engaged on the erection Of the sub-station at Woolston, which is to supply the current for the working of the line. The first of the locomotives is expected to arrive in Christchurch about the end of October.