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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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d. Most of the contracts for the in-stallation of this line were placed by the owners when inAmerica last fall, and it is expected by them that the lineswill be fully equipped and in working order for the sum-mer traffic. The system of the Cork Electric Tramways& Lighting Company consists of about 11 miles of track,and will be installed by the British Thomson-HoustonCompany. The gage is 3 ft., which is the same as that ofother lines running out of the city. The rails weigh about83 lbs. per yard. The station buildings will comprise an engine room,boiler room, battery room, car shed and repair shop, cov-ering an area of about 12,000 sq. ft. The boiler room willcontain three Babcock & Wilcox boilers, each of 2531 sq.ft. heating surface, and capable of evaporating 8000 lbs.of water per hour. There will also be an auxiliary heater,combined hot well and filter tank, and a duplicate set ofEdmiston filters. The chimney stack will be of steel, Jancjary, 1898.J STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 7
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PLAN AND CROSS SECTION OF NEW ELECTRIC POWER STATION—CORK, IRELAND 8 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol.. XIV. No. i. self-supporting, with 7 ft. internal diameter, and 130 ft.high. In the engine room there will be three Mcintosh &Seymour side crank, tandem compound engines, directlyconnected to 200 k. w. generators, running at 150 r. p. m.The engines will be run condensing. Two Wheeler,admiralty type, standard surface condensers, each havinga capacity of from 8000 to 12,000 lbs. steam per hour, willalso be located on the engine room floor, together with thenecessary compound feedwater pumps. The condensingwater will be taken from the river at a point about 500 ft.distant. The battery room will contain 256 Tudor cells, capa-ble of discharging at 110 amps, for seven hours. Abooster of suitable capacity will also be supplied for regu-lating the charge of the cells. The booster will be locatedin the engine room. The switchboard will consist of a combination of light-ing and railway panel

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