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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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ome montiisago, and extends from the Elephant and Castle to Greenwichliy two different routes, one-half of this track being let toJ. G. White & Company, Ltd., and the other half to Dick,Kerr & Company, Ltd., of London. The special work for thisportion of the road, which has been let to J. G. White & Com-pany, will all be made in Shefiield, England, Ijy the Hadfields,who, in recent years, have established a magnificent plant forthis class of work. In addition 7 miles in other localities willsoon be let, for the completion of connecting links of thesouthern jtart of I^oulon. At the time that the contract for Ihe first seclion was entered 822 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol XXL No. 23. into, the London County Council was in possession rif a powerhouse at Camberwell, but when John H. Rider took over theresponsibiHty it was decided by the London County Council,under his advice, to abandon this power house and to build acomplete, up-to-date power house in the vicinity of Greenwich,
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Street liiiUnmt Jlvrnal PLAN (.)!• ISIMI-KW GENERATING SET FOR MAIN IOWER HOUSE on the water side, where condensing water could be procuredand where a station, built on modern lines, having a capacityfor the whole of the southern system, could be installed. Thecontracts for the supply of apparatus for the station were let toDick, Kerr & Company, Ltd., who are at present manufacturing Loughborough Junction, from which all the power supply willbe derived until the Greenwich power station is ready. Thiscontract was also let to Dick, Kerr & Company, who havesupplied the whole apparatus in conjunction with Ferrantiengines. It should also be said that the complete equipmentof 200 cars for the first section of the route, now readyfor service, was entrusted to Dick, Kerr & Company, Ltd.,these cars being built by the Electric Railway & Tram-way Carriage Works, at Preston, and equipped with Dick-Kerr motors and controllers. The London County CouncilTramways are managed by Alfr

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