ELECTRIFICATION
OF BRITAIN’S RAILWAYS. (United Press Association— By Electric Telegraph.—Copyrignt.) LONDON, April 20., The Government has received proposals for a vast scheme for the electrification of the entire railway system at a cost of four hundred million sheetling. It is one occupying fifteen years to carry out, and employing sixty ■thousand. It is proposed to have an Electricity Board which would provide tire railways with power at decimal five of a penny per unit, and later it may ho decimal four of a penny per unit, lower than any country in the world. It is claimed that electrification 'would mean a much lower rate of depreciation, as electrical traction should have a life of thirty years, whereas the steam locomotive’s life is twenty years. Since the war five hundred millions has been spent on roadways in Britain, so the proposed outlay of four hundred millions "would lie reasonable. The scheme (provides tjluifc eighty million will lie spent; by the Electricity'Board and .‘l2O million by the railway companies.
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Hokitika Guardian, 21 April 1931, Page 6
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