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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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nt size from very small beginnings, was naturally a some-what patched up affair, with the consequence that the workingwas not at all economical, the number of separate stations beinga great disadvantage. The whole railway needed thoroughlyremodeling, and a careful investigation of the condition ofaffairs soon showed that very little could be done by any furtherpatchwork. New plant was obviously required, and this it waseventually decided to obtain, dispensing with such of the oldplant that was thus superseded, but retaining those portionswhich could usefully be worked into the centralizing scheme.Not only was much of the old plant out of date and wasteful,but the total amount of power required at times of heaviest loadwas so great that the plant was dangerously overloaded. Thewhole of the additions and alterations made by the new com-pany are given in full elsewhere. The Manx Railway possesses many points of interest, notonly from an engineering point of view bull from the picturesque
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358 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXIV. No. 10. and interesting nature of the route. It has formed a consider-able additional attraction to Douglas in the eyes of the travelingpublic, and has done much to enhance the success of that popu-lar holiday resort. Quite apart from the electrical equipment the constructionof the line was an engineering achievement of no small merit,and very serious difficulties were encountered, and innumerableobstacles had to be overcome. For a considerable portion of thedistance between Douglas and Laxey, the line runs along thesea coast, and it was necessary for the track to be cut out ofhard slate rock, along the face of the cliffs overhanging the crosses the Douglas and Laxey main road. This is the highestpoint in the line, being some 330 ft. above sea level. For somedistance the line runs alongside the high hoad, but never leavesits own specially constructed right of way; there is a run downto Garwick Glen, a steady rise to Ballabeg, and then anotherrun

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