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Original Text (Annotation: EPW058275 / 438011)
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The electrified lines of the Manchester South Junction and Altricham Railway. This route was operated by a joint committee of the London Midland and Scottish Railway and the London and North East Railway. Despite the latter being interested in electrification at 1500v dc, defined as the national preferred system in a report published in 1928, most of the electrification work and the provision of the multiple unit trains was under the direction of the former. In the early years of British Railways the route from Manchester to Sheffield was electrified with the same system before it was decided to set 25Kv ac as the standard for railway electrification. (The Dutch chose to electrify at 1500v dc and never changed, as be the time technical developments had come about most of they network was electrified!) '