ORDERS PLACED

Evening Post, Volume CXXII, Issue 36, 11 August 1936, Page 10

ORDERS PLACED

JOHNSONVILLE LINE

TWO-CAR ELECTRIC TRAINS

The "Electrical Review" (London) of July 3 states that the English Electric Co., Ltd., has received an order for six two-car motor coach electric trains for the New Zealand Government Railways. The coaches are of light all-steel construction. Each train consists of a driving coach and a trailer coach, so designed that different sizes of trains can'be made by coupling these units together. The system is 1500 volts, direct current.

These will be the first electric motor coach trains to be put into service on the New Zealand Railways, and are to be used on the suburban system running from Wellington to Johnsonville. In addition, they are the first all-steel coaches to be put into service in New Zealand.

Seating is provided for over 140 passengers, and the seats are of an up-to-date and luxurious type which will be fitted by the New Zealand Government Railways in their own workshops. The trains have been designed to maintain a high schedule speed, which will be comparable with ■ the most up-to-date similar suburban services.

The "order also includes the equipment for two high-speed'modern passenger electric locomotives as an extension to the order placed with the company in December 23 last year for a number of similar locomotives, states the "Review." The value of the present order is approximately £100,000. The whole of the design and construction of equipment covered by this order will be carried out within the company's organisation.