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Old April 18th 16, 04:35 PM
Robin9 Robin9 is offline
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Originally Posted by Colin Reeves View Post
On 18/04/2016 06:41, Charles Ellson wrote:


More expensive, obsolete, less efficient and it's heading toward 25kV
territory.

just as the DC line does beyond Harrow?


That was electrified over a century ago.


Maybe that line was electrified over a century ago, but lots of the SE
were electrified with third rail, most recently the mainline to Weymouth
(in the 90s?)

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Colin
The line between Woking and Weymouth was electrified in
the 1960s at very low cost. I used to travel on that route
frequently. The third rail system did not stop those trains from
moving fast.