Identifier: streetrailwayjo201902newy (find matches)
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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into the large bunkersoverhead. On its return trip it will pick up the ashes anddeposit them in a separate bunker from which the railwaycars on the high or low level can be filled. The purpose of this article being simply to give a gen-eral outline of the proposed work at Manchester, no at-tempt will be made in this issue to describe the interestingsub-stations, the motor generators of which are being sup-plied by the Allgemeine Elektricitats-Gesellschaft, and theswitch gear by Ferranti; or the important distribution sys-tem which is being carried out by W. T. Glover & Com-pany, the well-known cable manufacturers, and which willprobably be the most complete of any in the United King-dom. The work of construction is being carried rapidlyforward, however, under the supervision of Mr. Metzger,and in a later article an opportunity will be offered forviews of the work itself, with fuller particulars of the ma-chinery being installed. A description of the recent work in Manchester would
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FIG. 6.—STANDARD DOUBLE TRUCK CAR be incomplete in this paper without at least a reference tothe tramway system, which is one of the largest, as well asone of the latest, in Great Britain. The tramways in Man-chester are also owned and operated by the corporation,and the first section was put in operation in June, 1901.The system is not confined to the county lines, but extendsbeyond the city of Manchester in a number of directions,except in the direction of Salford which has its own roadsThe tramway system in Manchester was originally leasedby the city to private operators for a term of years, but asthe leases expired the lines have been taken back by themunicipality and equipped with electricity. The system isnow almost entirely under the control of the city and hasbeen transformed to electric power. As it stands, it com-prises about 150 miles of track One of the principal features of the system is the QueensRoad car house, capable of accommodating 262 standardcars of the company,

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