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Identifier: streetrailwayjo141898newy (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.
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f Clubwhich are largely patronized all the year round. The either directly through to the chimney, or by a bye-passthrough the economizer to the chimney. The latter is ofoctagonal shape with inside diameter of 7 ft., and theheight from the ground line is 112 ft. It has a firebricklining from the floor level of the main flue, a distance ofabout 50 ft. Each boiler has a total heating surface of2197 sq. ft. with a grate area of 44 sq. ft. The steam andwater drums are of mild steel plates. There are twodrums to each boiler, which are cross connected. A Greens economizer of standard pattern and con-sisting of 160 tubes has also been erected in the boilerhouse. Water is supplied to the boilers by two direct act-ing horizontal Worthington steam pumps, each capableof delivering to the boilers 22,000 gals, of water per houragainst the full working boiler pressure (150lbs.). A castiron water tank with a capacity of 10,000 gals, has alsobeen erected in the boiler house, but in view of the possi-
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INTERIOR OF CLONTARF POWER STATION—DUBLIN, IRELAND total length of the newly equipped line is slightly under3 miles of double track, the gage being 5 ft. 3 ins., whichis the Irish standard. The power house, which is at the Dollymount end ofthe line is on a site previously used by the TramwaysCompany as stables and car houses, the buildings thenexisting being altered to suit the present requirements. Ithas been erected from plans supplied by the British Thom-son-Houston Company, Ltd., the building works beingcarried out by R. OConnor, of Dublin, under the direc-tion of the Dublin Tramways Companys engineer. The power house, including car and repair shops, cov-ers a space of 166 ft. X 140 ft- It is divided into a boilerhouse, engine house, repair shop, offices and car house,the latter being capable of accommodating twenty-sixmotor cars. In the boiler house are three boilers of theBabcock & Wilcox type built in one and a half batteries.The main flue, which runs along the front of t

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