ELECTRIC RAILWAY
Christchurch Man’s Plans For City
Members of Parliament from Christchurch, officers of the-Defence Department, the Labour Department, the Lyttelton Harbour Board, and the Regional Planning Authority have accepted invitations by Mr L. C. Walker, of Christchurch, to accompany him on a tour while he explains his idea for an electric railway for the city, Mr Walker said yesterday. Mr Walker believes that a satellite township could be made at Rolleston and that an electric railway should link Lyttelton and Rolleston. His plan envisages linking Middleton, Sockbum. Hornby, Islington, Templeton, Weedons and Rolleston. The tour will leave the corner of Hazeldean road and Montreal street, go down Lincoln road to the back of Sunnyside Hospital. to Hornby, then to Rolleston and back on the other side of the railway line to Islington, Hei Hei and Blenheim road.
It is planned for next Tuesday morning. Mr Walker has also had a broadsheet printed setting out his aims. He says that Christchurch could be freed from smoke and railway noises.
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Press, Volume C, Issue 29499, 28 April 1961, Page 15
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169ELECTRIC RAILWAY Press, Volume C, Issue 29499, 28 April 1961, Page 15
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