BRITISH RAILWAYS.
ELECTRIFICATION SCHEME.
RUGBY, Monday
A. big railway electrification scheme, to cost £2,000,000, is announced by the Southern Railway. The lines to be electrified include the main London to Brighton line, and a branch line from Rcdliill to Guildford, and from Hove, near Brighton, to Worthing. The remission of passenger duty which was announced in the Budget of the iate Government was made conditional on expenditure by the railway companies on capital account. The Southern Railway guaranteed to undertake an expenditure of 80 per cent of the capitalised amount represented by the remitted duty —about £2,000,000. The electrification schemes now projected are in fulfilment of the guarantee. Over one million and three-quarter passengers, in addition to season ticketholders, are conveyed annually by rail between London and Brighton.—B.O.W.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, 16 October 1929, Page 5
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