MARSHALLING YARD IS MOST URGENT.
ELECTRIFICATION OF THE LYTTELTON LINE. (Special to the “Star.”) ' : WELLINGTON', June 43. An early morning question in it he House from Mr M'Combs 'elicited from the Prime Minister the statement that more than one plan had been prepared for the electrification of the Lytfejtpn section of railway, but he was inforjmed by his department that the really urgent part of the programme wag) to get the marshalling yard ready at Middleton, in order that marshalling, operations could be shifted from Christchurch. Meantime plans were being drafted in view of the electrification of the Lyttelton tunnel and tion of railway to fit in with the Lyt. tel ton yard scheme. "It is very important before we start improvements in Christchurch.” concluded Mr Coates, “that we should get the marshalling yard ready at Middleton.”
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17880, 23 June 1926, Page 7
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