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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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rpool (O.) Street Railway was tied up for severaldays in January because of a strike. NEW ELECTRIC STREET RAILWAY, NOR-WICH, ENGLAND. The very ancient city of Norwich—beloved ot Ve Virginfjucen— dating back almost beyond the range of history, has beendrowsing beneath the shadow of the old cathedral for centuries,with nothing but civil wars and now and then a fire to give passingexcitement. Though in paving and sanitary matters improvementshave been made in modern times, and electric lights installed, therehas been no real alteration in the city, the principal pride of whichis its anli(;uily. However, the trolley has at last made its appear-ance, and those who are foresighted are preparing to take advan-lage of the great changes which must result from adapting so mod-ern a means ot transportation. The new transporting agent is the New General Traction Com-pany. The ortices arc at 35 Iarliament street, London; I. E. Wins-low is chief engineer and A. E. Hopkins managing director. The
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NOKWICII C.\THKI1R.\I.. company is not a Norwich association, but is designed tor the pur-pose ot attending to the wants of the whole country. The Norwichenterprise is called the Norwich Electric Tramways Company, andthe engineer in charge is A. N. Bannister, but the work is con-trolled and done by the New General Traction Company. At pres-ent about 15 miles ot track is laid and some of the narrow streetshave had to be widened, while two new streets are being cut throughthe oldest part oi the city. The cars will doubtless soon be run-ning. The poles had not appeared a few weeks ago, but they willbe the last things to be put up. The track gage is 3 ft. 6 in. The rails are 6s-lb. girder, with aI-in. groove; they are laid on steel cross-ties or sleepers. Thesleepers weigh about 40 lbs. each and are placed at distances of10 ft. apart. There is a steel tie-rod between each cross-tie; theselatter are made by the .\skham Engineering Company, of Sheffield,England: the rails come from Belgium.

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