NEW LOCOMOTIVES.
ELECTRIFIED LINE. WELLINGTON TO PAIKAKARIKI. EIGHT MACHINES ORDERED. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, Friday. The General Manager of Railways, Mr G. F. Mackley, on behalf of the board, to-day slated that eight mainline electric locomotives have been ordered for the new electrified section of the lino from Wellington to Paekakariki. The order had been placed with Messrs Cory-Wright and Salmon, whose principals, the English Electric Company, Ltd., London, will work in the closest co-operation with the railway. The first locomotive will be manufactured in England, but the rest will be built at the Ilutt Workshops, where electrical equipment will be erected and the locomotives' tested before being put into service. The engines are of a most modern type, and are specially 'designed for working on the severe gradients and curves which make railway working in New Zealand such a difficult problem. They will be streamlined, both for improved appearance and for performance. Each will be capable 'of hauling a freight load of 50 tons each way of the journey, and each will weigh approximately 84 tons.
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Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 19759, 14 December 1935, Page 11
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