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Identifier: streetrailwayjo121896newy (find matches)
Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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. There are five compound horizontal engines ofover 100 h. p. each, the cylinders being 12 and 20 X16 ins. stroke. Five Mather & Piatt dynamos, each of55 k. w. capacity, are driven from the engines by belting,the armature speed being put at 800 revolutions perminute. A special feature of the installation is a large accu-mulator station located at Laxey for equalizing the loadon the generating stations. The Snaefel railway accu- 94 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XII. No. 2. mulator station contains 246 cells of a patent chloridetype. The accumulators are charged by the spare cur-rent from the dvnamo when the load is light, and auto- London Underground Systems. In a just published article in Lightning the fol-lowing facts concerning Londons traffic werebrought out. The Central London Railway is tobe completed by December 31, 1898; the City andWaterloo tunnels are nearly complete; and the Cityand South London Railway is making extensionsat both of its present termini. The Central Lon-
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VIEWS ON THE LINE OF THE MT. SNAEFEL RAILWAY, ISLE OF MAN. matically distribute their energy to the line wheneverthe load rises above a certain point. The railway was open for public traffic in the end ofAugust. The views on this page will give the reader an excel-lent idea of the picturesque scenery which can be enjoyedin a trip over this line. don Railway will have stations about half a mile apart,will give a 2^^ minute service, and will run (by electricity)at a schedule speed of about fourteen miles per hour overa route which is estimated to have a daily traffic between8 A. M. and 8 p. m. of over 225000 persons. The City andWaterloo Railway will carry according to present esti-mates about 40000 passengers per week day. Fehruary, 1896.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 95

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  • bookyear:1884
  • bookdecade:1880
  • bookcentury:1800
  • booksubject:Street_railroads
  • booksubject:Electric_railroads
  • booksubject:Transportation
  • bookpublisher:New_York___McGraw_Pub__Co_
  • bookcontributor:Smithsonian_Libraries
  • booksponsor:Smithsonian_Libraries
  • bookleafnumber:109
  • bookcollection:smithsonian
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