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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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been transformed to electric traction., hasbranch roads from Gallarate to Laveno and Arona, whichwill be electrically equipped next year. High-tensiontransmission lines run from the central station at Torna-vento to five rotary-converter sub-stations, along the linesupplying current to the third rail.. Data such as total or partial distances, grades, etc., canbe found in the following table: TABLE SHOWING DISTANCES, GRADES, ETC. three, standing room being twelve for the motor car, andtwenty-seven for the trailer, making a total of 165 pas-sengers per train. The weight of the motor car when fullyloaded will be about 43 tons, and that of the trailer 30 tons,making a total maximum train weight of about 73 tons. From the proposed train schedule the distance betweenMilan and Gallarate (25 miles) must be covered by an ex-press train in thirty minutes, making a commercial speedbetween these two points of 50 miles per hour, and a pos-sible maximum of 55 miles to 60 miles per hour on an aver-
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Street Ry.Journal DIAGRAMATICAL TIME TABLE Aver- Maxi- Stations . Distances . age mum Minimum in km in miles grade grade radius of curves Milan 0 0 % 7o Musocco .... 5.88 3-67 -153 . 2 Rho 13-54 8.46 ■230 -4 800 m. (2625 ft.) Parabiago .. 22.55 16.09 - 330 .6 Legano 27.98 17-49 .460 .6 Busto 33-10 20.69 -330 .6 Gallarate . .. 40.30 25-19 222 .6 Gazzada .... 54-31 33-94 -850 1.0 Varese 58-74 36.71 •473 1.0 Bisuschio .. . 68.61 42.88 . 292 1.2 300 m. (984 ft.) Porto Ceresio 73-02 45-64 1-52 2.0 From Mi an to about 3 miles b eyond Varese the line rises continually; from this point on to Porto Ceresio theline descends rapidly. OPERATION In order to amply provide for the increase of passengertrafific to be foreseen, the entire converter system has beenlaid out to correspond to a maximum train schedule. Thisschedule, however, will not be enforced this year, sincethe temporary central station will not have sufficient ca-pacity to furnish power for such a load as is assumed. Each train wi

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