Text Appearing Before Image: rrange- diameter. Is of wrought iron, riveted throughoutand stayed with stranded steel stays. There arefour of Marshalls multitubular locomotive boilers,giving steam at 160 pounds pressure to threeWillans central valve high speed compound en-gines running at 3.50 revolutions. Two No. 5Worthlngton steam pumps pump the feed waterthrough two Marshalls feed water heaters of 100horse power each. There are three compoundwound Siemens dynamos, giving 250 amperes eachat 500 volts, coupled directly to the engines, onone bed-plate. The shaft of each carries a fly-wheel 4 feet 3 inches in diameter. Two Siemens15 horse power motors are used for each car,geared to the oar axles with single reduction spurgearing working in oil. Much delay has been caused by the telephonepeople, who claim that the working of the rail-way seriously Interferes with the ethciency oftheir system. As the telephone system of Tas-mania is under government control, the railwajcompany has thus far had rather the worst of the Text Appearing After Image: AN AU.sTKALIAN ELECTKIC EAILWAT. ment also seems crude and clumsy when comparedwith the pole and rolling contact of the Americansystem. The operating company is the Hobart ElectricalTramway company, an English corporation,which has secured a perpetual lease of the nec-essary rights-of-way by purchase from a localsyndicate. The line is of single track and isabout ten miles long, the point selected for Illus-tration being at the corner of Macquarie andElizabeth streets. The steepest grade is on theNewtown line, where for ubout 350 yards there isa C per cent. rise. In other places there are somerather severe curves and grades. The rails are 40pound Vignoles rails, with guard rails throughout,the joints being spanned by copper strap rivetedto the rails. The trolley wire is supported frompoles on either side of the street, galvanized steelwires being used for suspension. It has beenfound necessary In some i)laces, in order to clearthe telegraph and telephone wires, to cover thetops of the
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