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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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s been deferred for the present. The overhead equipment in the six car sheds and over theapproaches has been carried out by Mr. McCowens own staff. other twenty tracks are taken off a single track, the possiblecomplications of overhead equipment can be imagined. The overhead wiring of each shed is separated from thestreet wiring by sectional insulators, and the supply of energyto each shed is controlled by a circuit breaker and wattmeter,so that the energy used in the sheds can be carefully watchedand the outside lines protected from interruptions due to faults Tebruary 3, 1906.) STREET RAILWAY TOURNAL. 193 in the car sheds. The approaches to each shed are brilliantlylighted by means of arc lamps supplied from the lighting mainswhere these are available, and in the other case from the tram-way supply. » CABLES All of the cables required were manufactured and laid byCallenders Cable & Construction Company, Ltd., of Londonand Erith. The total trench work required amounted to 65,000
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INTERIOR OF CONVERTED BELFAST HORSE CAR, SHOWINGLIGHTING SYSTEM yds., or 57 miles, of route, and the total amount of cableamounted to 93 miles. The weight of copper used was morethan 250 tons. The tramway feeders are all single conductor vulcanizedbitumen cables, and are made up of a strand of soft copperwire, with a conductivity of not less than 100 per cent ofMathiessens standard. The cables were subjected at the worksto a pressure test of 2500 volts alternating. The pilot cablesfor the tramway feeders are three-core, 7/20, paper, vulcanized

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