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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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royed was rescued from theruins, repaired and pressed into immediate service. May y, 1903.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 699 EQUIPMENT OF YERKES LONDON UNDERGROUND RAILWAYS The first shipment of cars built by the Brush ElectricalEngineering Company, of Loughborough, for the electrificationof the Electric Underground Railways Company, of London,the new Yerkes railway, recently arrived on the confines ofthe district system at South Harrow, where they are beingfitted with their electrical equipments prior to being experi- These side doors slide and are provided with handles, so thatthey can be worked either from within the car or from thestation platforms. Experience will decide whether they shall beused at every station or be treated as a kind of emergency exitand for emptying the trains quickly at the termini. The exitsat the ends of the cars are protected by gates, which areoperated by a conductor standing on the car platform, after thestyle made familiar to Londoners on the Twopenny Tube.
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TRAIN FOR THE YERKES LONDON UNDERGROUND SYSTEM mentally run over the new line between Harrow and Ealing.These trains are being equipped with multiple-unit train-controlapparatus, that of the British Thomson-Houston Companybeing all electric, while the Westinghouse is electropneu-matic. When fitted two trains will be run in a series of trialtrips on the Harrow and Ealing line, to decide which systemof train control is the better adapted for the service. West-inghouse air brakes will be used on all trains. It is proposed to install a complete metallic circuit on thisroad, much after the style of the iiVIersey, current Ijeing con-veyed to the motors by a contact-rail,16 ins. outside of the wheel-rail, andnormally on the left-hand side of thetrack, while the return conductor isplaced midway between the wheel-rails. The outside conductor is aT-rail carried on stoneware insula-tors. It is elevated 3 ins. above thelevel of the wheel-rails, and is pro-tected by wooden guards on each side,whic

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