Identifier: streetrailwayjo271906newy (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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cars, a motor car at either end and four trailersin the middle. All the control apparatus, as well as theair compressors, is carried in a steel cabat the driving end of the car. Here thecontactors and circuit breakers are hungfrom horizontal slate panels supported byrigid steel framework. This form of con-struction was adopted because the smalldiameter of the tunnel does not allowsufficient room for the apparatus to be car-ried under the car, as in the case of theDistrict Railway. It is also consideredsafer on the tube lines to have the ap-paratus enclosed in a steel cab in case ofany fault developing in the equipmentwhile a train is running in the tunnel. Current for the Baker Street & Waterloo Railway is, ofcourse, derived from the large station at Lots Road, Chelsea,which has been described in this paper, and the road will havephysical connections with the Metropolitan DistrictRailway and the Charing Cross, Euston & Hamp-stead Railway at Charing Cross station, and the Great
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ENTRANCE TO TUBE FROM KENNINGTON YARDS Northern, Brompton & Picadilly tube at Picadilly Circus.There are two sub-stations which feed the Baker Street &Waterloo Railway exclusively, both of which were completelyequipped by the British Westinghouse Electric & Manufac-turing Company., Ltd. They are situated at Baker Streetand London Road, respectively, and their design, and that ofthe electrical machinery installed in them, are identical withthose of the Charing Cross sub-station of the MetropolitanDistrict Railway, a description of which was published in theStreet Railway Journal of March 4, 1905. The only dif- April 7, 1906.) STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 557 ference is in the number and capacity of the rotaries, trans-formers, feeders, etc., which are as follows:— Two 8oo-kw rotary converters. (Space provided for oneextra.) Six 300-kw air-blast transformers supplying current to the ro-taries. Two lightning transformers supplying current for lighting thestations and tunnels. Tw

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