. The Street railway journal . THE SPEICHER SUB-STATION OF THE ST. GALL-SPEICHER-TROGEN ELECTRIC! RAILWAY the weights of the trains are respectively tonnes and The speed varies from 12 km to 25 km per hour, ac-cording to grades, and the time of the trip is forty-two minutes,including intermediate stops. The trolley line consists of two copper wires of 8 mm indiameter. Within the city steel poles are used, while outsidethe city impregnated wood poles have been installed. Barecopper feeders of 70 sq. mm section are employed, and aretapped into the trolley wire every 300 m. A par
. The Street railway journal . THE SPEICHER SUB-STATION OF THE ST. GALL-SPEICHER-TROGEN ELECTRIC! RAILWAY the weights of the trains are respectively tonnes and The speed varies from 12 km to 25 km per hour, ac-cording to grades, and the time of the trip is forty-two minutes,including intermediate stops. The trolley line consists of two copper wires of 8 mm indiameter. Within the city steel poles are used, while outsidethe city impregnated wood poles have been installed. Barecopper feeders of 70 sq. mm section are employed, and aretapped into the trolley wire every 300 m. A particularly interesting point in connection with the over-head system is the arrangement at the pointwhere the voltage changes. At this pointthe company has installed in series two-sec-tion insulators of the same type as those tm-ployed for dividing, the line into sections atother points. The cars pass over the insu-lated section, which is about 1 m in length,by momentum, although there is a grade hereof per cent. In case a
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