RAILWAY WORKS.
ELECTBICITY AS MOTIVE POWEB. [(Fes Presa Association.) Wellington, last night. Sir Joseph Ward, speaking at tho opening of tho new railway station at Petone to-day, said he hoped the whole work of straightening and duplicating tho railway line between Wellington and the Hutt, and the reclamation works in connection therewith, would be finished in two or three years. He believed tho electrification, of some of the railways was within reasonable distance of accomplishment. He had very little doubt that within the next five years, certainly within next seven years, on a number of linos of railways from tbe cities to populous suburbs, the motive power would be electricity, not steam. The work of of duplicating the AucklandPenrose line would be put in band during j the next throe weeks. Ho anticipated starting on tho doplication of the Dunedin to Mosgiel line in about Bix weeks. The doplication of Christchurch to Bolleston seotion would bo put in hand ere loDg.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XIX, Issue 1517, 27 July 1905, Page 2
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