BRITISH RAILWAYS
BIG RECONSTRUCTION SCHEME. EXPENDITURE OF £30,000,000. (British Official Wireless.) (Rec. 5.5 p.m.) Rugby, November 5. A big scheme of railway development works extending over five years and costing some £30,000,000, for which a loan to be guaranteed as to principal and interest by the Exchequer will .be raised, has been agreed upon following prolonged negotiations between the Government and the four main line railway companies. A grant of the necessary powers by Parliament is only awaited before this programme of expansion and reconstruction is put in hand.
In addition to reconstruction and the enlarging of many important stations and goods yards, the building of rolling stock and the laying of new branch and loop lines, the proposed works include an extension of automatic train control, the installation of coloured light signalling and other safety precautions and big schemes of electrification. When completed the electrical services from London, which already run to Brighton and Eastbourne, will extend to Portsmouth, Arundel and Hastings.
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Southland Times, Issue 22732, 7 November 1935, Page 5
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