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Title: The working and management of an English railway
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Findlay, George, 1829-1893
Subjects: London and North-Western Railway Railroads Railroads and state
Publisher: London : Whittaker & Co. (etc.)
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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mbination of thetwo ; that is to say, the train will carry both a dynamoand accumulators; but whether the dynamo is to becarried on the engine or driven from the enginedirect, or is to be driven by a separate engine, or bythe axle of the guards van, are points not yet deter-mined with any degree of authority. The train alreadyreferred to on the Liverpool and Manchester Railway,carries a Brotherwoods engine and a Siemens com-pound shunt dynamo fixed on the tender of thelocomotive, with an ammeter and switch on the engine,so that the driver may regulate the current, and thereare two lamps in each compartment of the train withan automatic switch arrangement, so that in the eventof one lamp failing, the second would be automaticallyJarought into use. The system, which has been devisedby the Companys chief telegraph superintendent,does not admit of the engine leaving the train withoutdisconnecting the current, but this dif^culty might beovercome by the use of secondary batteries or accumu-
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by: O ROLLING STOCK—CARRLAGLS. 141 lators. The capital outlay required for the installationof this one train, including the Brotherwood engine anddynamo machine, was ^286, and the working expensesfor a year have amounted to ^84 2s. id., which worksout to about 628 of a penny per lamp per hour, but thishas sinc2 been somewhat reduced, and moreover, aportion of the working expenses would be no greaterif there were three or four trains to attend to, workingbetween the same points. CHAPTER IX. Rolling Stock (in.)—Goods Waggons. Prior to the year 1881, the railway companies, generallyspeaking, only provided waggons for the conveyance ofordinary merchandise, and coal and coke, lime, salt,and some olher commodities were carried in waggonsbelonging to the colliery proprietors and other traders,the companies making an allowance off their authorisedtolls, for the use of the vehicles, and the owners perform-ing all the services of loading and unloading. To avery considerable extent, this sta

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