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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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g. 7 min. Thenearest example for purposes of com-parison is afforded by Fitzalan Squarelayout, Sheffield, which, however, isabout 45 ft. less in one direction andabout 30 ft. in the other. Whereasthat junction has curved tracks on twosides only, the Newcastle layout con-tains curved tracks on three sides,forming two 3-Y curves, thus increas-ing the number of compound castings. There are 136 pieces in the layout,the total weight of castings being 50tons. The longest switch is 17 ft. andconsists of a moveable switch and twocrossings combined and weighs 1792 lb.,while its mate weighs 1233 lb and car-ries one crossing at the toe end. Theaverage length of the switches is 12 ft.with 9-ft. tongues and they weigh 1736lb. per pair. There are five large three-day crossings, averaging1344 lb. each. The center star crossings are of theordinary type except one, which has legs about 10 ft.long on each side so as to connect up two sides ofthe junction, and weighs 1008 lb. There are thirty AND CASTLE
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SPECIAL CROSSING FOR NEWCASTLE-ON-TYNE crossings varying from 9 ft. to 14 ft. and from 560 lb. to1680 lb. each. There are sixty-three rails, all cast manganese steel.Their average length is 15 ft., the lengths being regulatedby the necessary joints, but where possible 20-ft. rails are jMarcji 7, 1908.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 401 used, so that Newcastle now holds the record for the longestcast rails. All the rails are cast straight and curved toradius required. A special feature is that all the straightrails are manganese steel. It is believed this is the first timethese have been used in a large junction of this class. The chief aim of the city engineer of Newcastle was to GERMAN AUTOMATIC AIR BRAKE SYSTEM FOR STREETRAILWAYS The operation of trail cars on street railways is verycommon in Germany and consequently a great deal of at-tention has been given in that country to street-car braking.

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