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Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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n method. Instead ofthe trolley with an underrunning wheel, two collectingbars are fixed on the car, one at each end. These pressagainst the overhead conductors, and take the current bya sliding contact. Thus when they pass a pole, one baris always in contact with the overhead wire. The extension of the line to Laxey, seven miles fromDouglas, is rapidly nearing completion, and is expectedto be in operation this summer. It will be double trackthroughout, except two short single tracks at Douglas,constructed of heavy steel rails set on ties laid on a wellgrouted bed. The bridges and culverts are of stone.The road is really a railroad if judged by its construction,but as it has been classed as a tramway, the speed of travelis limited by law to ten miles per hour. The overhead wires will be suspended from doublearmed center brackets. The company owns about fifty acres of land at On-chan Head, which overlooks Douglas Bay. This is to beenclosed and laid out as a park, free of expense to the
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&, Jo urn ELECTRIC CAR—ISLE OF MAN TRAMWAY. company, and is expected to become a source of consid-erable revenue on a short trip service. The horse road carried in 1892, 813,114 passengers,and in 1893, 911,410, and showed a net profit of .£3,784on the latter years working, the expenditures beingabout ,£100 over 50 per cent, of the receipts. Referringto the experimental operation over the two and a thirdmiles at the close of the visiting season last summer,20,000 passengers were carried in nineteen days,1,689 miles were run and the receipts averaged 35.36^.or about seventy-one cents per car mile. The farecharged from Derby Castle to Laxey is one shilling ortwenty-five cents, that from Derby Castle to the groundsthree pence or six cents, and a similar fare from the land-ing pier to the Castle. In addition to the operation of the road, the companycontemplates the supply of current to large consumerslocated in the vicinity of the Douglas generating station. The three miles mention

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