A £2,000,000 JOB
LONDON-BRIGHTON RAILWAY ELECTRIFICATION BIG SCHEME ANNOUNCED British Official Wireless RUGBY, Tuesday. A great railway electrification scheme to cost £2,000,000, is announced by the Southern Railway Company. The lines to be electrified include the main London-Brighton line, a branch line from Redhill to Guildford and from Hove, near Brighton, to Worthing. The remission of the passenger duty which was announced in the Budget of the late Government was made conditional on expenditure by the railway companies on capital account. The Southern Railway Company guaranteed to undertake an expenditure of 8 per cent, of the capitalised amount represented by the remitted duty—about £2,000,000. The electrification schems now projected are a fulfilment of the guarantee. More than 1,750,000 passengers, in addition to season-ticket holders, are conveyed annually by rail between London and Brighton.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 795, 16 October 1929, Page 9
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133A £2,000,000 JOB Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 795, 16 October 1929, Page 9
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