Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1898 — London’s Electric System. [ARTICLE]

London’s Electric System.

The American system of using locomotives with the third rail is the only system which can be employed on the Central Underground railway In London. This road, which is now approaching completion, is eighty feet be# low the street level. It runs under Oxford street and Holborn, from the Bank of England to Shepherd’s Bush, a distance of about six and one-half miles. All the electric plant will be American. The power will be transmitted by an alternating current system, to be changed to a direct current system at the proper points. The motors are to be small copies of the large electric locomotives now used In the Baltimore and Ohio Railway tunnel.