Re: 80th anniversary of suburban 1500 V dc electrification

[chris@icos.net.nz ("chris 'fufas' grace")]

>David Langley wrote:
>>
>> David McLoughlin wrote:
>>
>> > Electrification in New Zealand finished last year? What were those
>> > trains running under wires I saw last week around Wellington, and the
>> > ones running under wires between Hamilton and Palmerston North?
>>
>> I'm sure, as you will agree, that he means Authur's Pass to Otira only.
Sometimes
>> when we are replying to postings in the dead of night, we let our grammar
slip a
>> little. Historical facts should always be accurate though.
>
>You can't be sure with Patrick Dunford. He lives in Christchurch, a
>parochial South Island town and AFAIK he has never been out of it, so he
>possibly doesn't know about the North Island electrified systems.

I suggest you engage brain before operating mouth, David. Whatever problems
most of us have with him (and I killfiled him ages ago), if you do some
research you
will find that he has some well researched web pages on NZ Railway History,
complete
with photographs which he would have had to leave Christchurch to have
taken.

You are certainly in no position to comment on other people's accuracy.
You haven't been entirely accurate yourself in the past, either. Maybe you
should make sure of your facts before venting your spleen.