PANTOGRAPHS ON THE SOUTHERN

摘要

Although overhead current collection had been done away with when the ex-LBSCR suburban network was converted to third-rail (see p13), pantographs made a return to the Southern during World War Two. By 1939, work had started on designing an electric locomotive able to work off the 650V dc third-rail and from overhead wires at the same voltage in freight yards, where laying a live rail was considered to be too dangerous.