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Title: Electric railway journal
Year: 1908 (1900s)
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Subjects: Electric railroads
Publisher: (New York) McGraw Hill Pub. Co
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ian teakwood 7 ft. 6 in. long by 6in. x 4 in. spaced 2 ft. 6 in. center to center. In laying the tracks a foundation consisting of a 6-in.layer of rubble stone was first deposited in the trench andwell compacted by rolling. The ties were laid on thisfoundation with an intervening layer of sharp stone screen- Bombay Tramways—Exterior View of Railway andLighting System Power House paving was pulled by hand. While the roadbed describedappears to be very light for city track so far it has beenfound ample to meet the conditions in Bombay. There arecomparatively few vehicles on the streets other than privatecarriages and slow-moving ox-carts. The special workused in Bombay was furnished by Edgar Allen & Company,Sheffield, England. The switches are of cast steel withmanganese steel tongues, and the crossings are of iron-bound construction with manganese steel insert hard cen-ters. Span construction is commonly employed for the over-head lines. A few bracket poles have been used for the
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Bombay Tramways—A Complicated Special Work Layout in Front of Crawford Market ings which was thoroughly tamped under the tics with single-track lines in narrow streets and ornamental steel beater picks. The space between the ties was thus filled double bracket center poles have been used mi a few of the with coarse rubble stone and the entire width of the track wide streets. No. 00 grooved trolley wire is used through was brought up to a level with the lop of the rail with out and it is carried at a height of from _i it. to 21 ft. <) 976 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XXXIV. No. 18. in. above the rails. This unusually high clearance forlines which operate only single-deck cars was adopted toavoid fouling by the large high shrines which are carriedthrough the streets by the natives in their religious proces-sions. Triple insulation was adopted throughout to avoidtrouble during the three months season of monsoons, whenthe rain storms are very severe, aggregating a precipitationof

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