Steady progress is being made with the ambitious scheme of the L. & N.E. Railway and London Passenger Transport Board, for railway electrification in the north-east London area. Electric traction is being instituted by the L. & N.E. Company on four tracks between Liverpool Street terminus and Gidea Park, a distance of 14 miles; on two tracks between Gidea Park and Shenfield, a distance of 6 ½ miles; and from Fenchurch Street to Bow Junction (3 ¼ miles), from whence trains will run to Stratford over a single track now being constructed. The complementary scheme of the L.P.T.B. will relieve the L. & N.E.R. of the Fairlop loop and Loughton Branch traffic. The Central London page 18 page 19 Line is being extended from Liverpool Street to Bethnal Green and Mile End, and thence to Stratford. From Stratford, the Central London Line will run in tube to Loughton Branch Junction, emerging to run over the L. & N. E. R. Woodford, Loughton and Ongar Branch, which is being electrified on the third and fourth rail system. Certain of the trains will descend again at Leytonstone, run in a new tube to Newbury Park, and there join the L. & N. E. R. Fairlop loop running north to Hainault. To and from Hainault there will also be a tube train service over the northern section of the loop, via Woodford and Chigwell. Huge works of this kind naturally result in a certain amount of inconvenience to passengers for the time being, but this is being reduced to a minimum despite the fact that Liverpool Street station handles 210,000 passengers daily.