. Electric railway journal . underneath the rail head. Some de-flections in the flangeway can be seen and also the noticeablejoint between city and company paving. No. 5—Monolithic construction without expansion joints andpoured only between the outside rails, leaving the 18-in. outside-for simultaneous pouring with city paving to avoid bad joints. 570 Electric Railway Journal Vol. 55, No. 12 the flangeways has resulted in a much slower deteriora-tion of the brick adjacent to the rails than was experi-enced with special nose blocks (t)ther than Belgian blockswhich are considered too expensive
. Electric railway journal . underneath the rail head. Some de-flections in the flangeway can be seen and also the noticeablejoint between city and company paving. No. 5—Monolithic construction without expansion joints andpoured only between the outside rails, leaving the 18-in. outside-for simultaneous pouring with city paving to avoid bad joints. 570 Electric Railway Journal Vol. 55, No. 12 the flangeways has resulted in a much slower deteriora-tion of the brick adjacent to the rails than was experi-enced with special nose blocks (t)ther than Belgian blockswhich are considered too expensive in this locality)which chip off badly. It will be noted that the substruc-ture of this track is a monolithic slab of concrete, pouredcomplete in one operation. Two or three plans of laying the bricks in the aboveconstruction have been tried. The majority were laidwith the length of the bricks across the track and stag-gered in the usual manner. On another stretch the rowof bricks adjacent to the rails was laid crosswise of. /-3-6 Sloig Concre-te j >]3t- ex6ji7-6Creosofe Ties SECTION THROUGH CONCRETE TRACK WITH BRICK SUR-FACE WHICH HAS GIVEN EXCELLENT SERVICEIN BIRMINGHAM the track, while the bricks between were laid longi-tudinally. On still another stretch, all of the brickswere laid longitudinally between rails. The latter twoplans have the advantage that the bricks can be laidmuch faster and with much less labor, since they donot have to be broken except at the starting point. Thepavers can continue the brick right along on straight-away and on curves without any fitting. It was thoughtthat with the bricks laid longitudinally, that is, parallelwith the directions of travel, grooves would be likely todevelop between rows, but this has not occurred aftertwo years use. These latter two schemes of laying thebricks are shown in two accompanying photographs. Experience with Concrete Paving A number of different construction plans have beenfollowed in Birmingham looki
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