. Electric railway journal . \§S Station MANCHESTER POWER DIAGRAM SHOWING ORIGINAL EQUIPMENT MANCHESTER POWER DIAGRAM SHOWING NEW DEVELOPMENTS 426 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL [Vol. XLIX, No. 10 also a Terry Steam turbine mounted on the shaft andso connected that, in case the motor fails, the steamturbine instantly picks up the load without makingappreciable change in the excitation conditions. Steam is supplied at 200-lb. pressure by two Babcock& Wilcox boilers, set independently, and normally ratedat 762 hp. each. By means of Taylor stokers andblowers the boilers can be operated at 250 per cent
. Electric railway journal . \§S Station MANCHESTER POWER DIAGRAM SHOWING ORIGINAL EQUIPMENT MANCHESTER POWER DIAGRAM SHOWING NEW DEVELOPMENTS 426 ELECTRIC RAILWAY JOURNAL [Vol. XLIX, No. 10 also a Terry Steam turbine mounted on the shaft andso connected that, in case the motor fails, the steamturbine instantly picks up the load without makingappreciable change in the excitation conditions. Steam is supplied at 200-lb. pressure by two Babcock& Wilcox boilers, set independently, and normally ratedat 762 hp. each. By means of Taylor stokers andblowers the boilers can be operated at 250 per cent ofrating. The feed pumps are of the three-stage andfour-stage centrifugal type. Coal is supplied the boilersfrom overhead bunkers. These are supplied by belt con-veyor, and the coal is fed through automatic weighingmachines before reaching the stoker hoppers. The condensing apparatus, which was furnished bythe Alberger Condenser Company, is placed in a pit be-neath the turbine. The condenser is of the vertical-jettype w
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