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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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here has recently commenced operation, at Brighton,England, an aerial cable way, built by the Telpher Cable& Cliff Railway Syndicate, upon plans made by W. J.Brewer, C. E., the inventor. The line spans the DevilsDyke, and is 230 feet above the valley. A sort of sus-pension bridge is used to support the cable. The sup-porting pillars are 650 feet apart, and the bridge is fur-ther supported by anchors, 1,200 feet apart, buried incement on each slope. The journey from hill to hillrequires 2%, minutes. It is said that when the cable isslack, there is a swaying motion similar to that of a ves-sel at sea. The cable is endless, and the motive poweris an oil engine. The company intends to build several branches overother valleys in the vicinity. The value of this system issaid to consist in the cheapness of construction as com-pared with the cost of bridges spanning distances acrossrivers or between mountains, where difficult engineeringproblems exist, that would be expensive to overcome.
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AERIAL TRANSPORTATION, BRIGHTON, ENGLAND Tasker & Co. and Hoopes & Townsend, Philadelphia.William Minnigerode, 216 South Fourth street, Phila-delphia, is one of the best known gentlemen in the ironand steel trade in the Southern states, having been inbusiness and located at different times in Richmond andLynchburg, Va.; Atlanta, New Orleans and Birmingham,Ala. He comes from one of the oldest and highly This new system of transportation is attracting a greatdeal of attention in England, resulting in many interestingspeculations regarding its future development. Somesanguine people even venture the opinion that it is thesolution of the problem concerning the bridging of theBritish Channel, which has been fruitful of so much dis-cussion, and productive of many foolish plans. 688 (placet j\aiWa^j^ylcv/ STREET RAILWAY MAIL SERVICE. The recent inauguration and successful operation of amail service on the lines of the Atlantic Avenue RailroadCompany in Brookljn and its suburbs, is an

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