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Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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for the tie-bars, and drilled tor the fish-boltsand electrical bonding. The fishplates arc of steel, 26 in. long,weighing 56 lbs. per pair, and the outer plate is the larger, givingsupport to the rail head. The tie-bars arc of wrought iron 2 in. by^i in., weighing lo^^lbs., with two nuts at both ends, placed at 8 ft.centers and 3 ft. from the ends of the rails. The crossings arc builtup as the work proceeds, and the rails are cut and scarfed tor thispurpose by a cold steel cutting saw. The scarf is held to the cross-ing rail by specially made fishplates, forged to suit, and a plate 6 ft.long by I ft. 6 in. by /i in. is placed beneath and bolted up to the railflange with 10 bolts 21/2 in. by ^ in. The crossing is completed bycutting a groove through the head of the crossing rail. The railsare laid upon a continuous bed of Portland cement concrete (s toI), 0 in. deep and 7 ft. wide. The roadway between the rails, and18 in. outside each rail, is paved with Welsh granite setts 6 in. deep
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VIEWS IN TUE POWER ST.VTION OF THE CORK ELECTRIC TRA.MWAYS & LIGHTING COMPANY. past month has proved entirely successful. From the station, cur-rent is also supplied to 217 customers having 11,622 incandescentlamps and 18 motors aggregating 113 h. p. In addition to thisthere are 100 city arc lamps. The charge for lighting current is 10cents per k. w. h. and for power Syi cents per k. w. h. for the firsttwo hours and 2 cents per k. w. h. afterwards. A map of the lines, together with feeder circuits and connections,is given in Fig. 5. The tramways are for the most part single lineswith turn-outs, and have a total length of 11 miles. Double tracksare laid through the principal streets; branch lines run to Tivoli, St.Lukes, Western Road, Blackpool and Douglas. The longestbranch is to Douglas, a village about two miles south of Cork. Thetramway crosses the river twice, first over Parnell bridge, a steelswing bridge, and again over Patricks bridge, which is built ofstone. The rails are

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