FRENCH RAILWAYS.
SUCCESS OF ELECTRIC LOCOMOTIVE. (Received 8.30 p.m., Dec. 30.) PARIS, December 29. The IG-wheeled electric locomotive, used at the inauguration of the new Paris-Vierzon service, hauled a 400-ton train 145 miles at an average speed of eighty-one miles per hour. Power was supplied hydro-electric-ally. The service forms a part of a comprehensive plan to render French railways independent of foreign coal.
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Timaru Herald, Volume CXXIII, 31 December 1926, Page 9
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