. The Street railway journal . eet railway system in the city, which was then being oper-ated with horses by a private company, was purchased by themunicipality late in 1901 for £134,000. E. George Mawbey,M. I. C. E., was appointed engineer; E. Manville, of Kinkaid,Waller, Manville & Dawson, consulting engineer, and E. Lucas, of the track. A minimum radius of 40 ft. for all curves wasaimed at, and with one or two exceptions this has been distance from center to center of tracks with side poleconstruction is 8 ft. 1 in., giving 3 ft. \)/2 ins. from gage edgeto gage edge between tra
. The Street railway journal . eet railway system in the city, which was then being oper-ated with horses by a private company, was purchased by themunicipality late in 1901 for £134,000. E. George Mawbey,M. I. C. E., was appointed engineer; E. Manville, of Kinkaid,Waller, Manville & Dawson, consulting engineer, and E. Lucas, of the track. A minimum radius of 40 ft. for all curves wasaimed at, and with one or two exceptions this has been distance from center to center of tracks with side poleconstruction is 8 ft. 1 in., giving 3 ft. \)/2 ins. from gage edgeto gage edge between tracks, and for center pole construction10 ft. 11ins., giving 6 ft. 3 ins. between tracks. The gage ofthe track is 4 ft. 8;/ ins. The rails, which are in 45-ft. lengths, weigh too lbs. peryard for the straight track, the grooves being ins. curve rails weigh 105 lbs. per yard, the grooves beingi34 ins. wide. Both rails are 7 ins. deep and 7 ins. across theflange. The angle plates weigh 54 lbs. per pair, and are 2 LEICESTER TRAMWAYS—CLOCK TOWER JUNCTION, SHOWING SPECIAL WORK operating manager. Steps were immediately taken to convertthe lines to electricity and the necessary contracts were CONSTRUCTION The tramway system authorized by Parliament comprises193^ miles of double track and 3J/2 miles of single track, beingequivalent to over 42 miles of single track. The track construc-tion was commenced in April, 1903, and notwithstanding theabnormally wet weather which has prevailed throughout mostof the period of construction, the total length of track which itwas decided to carry out immediately, amounting to about 33miles, was completed in April last, and the remainder is in hand. Generally speaking, the routes comprised in the scheme aremoderately straight, with no excessive grades, the steepestbeing 1 in 16 for a distance of about 50 yds. It has been foundnecessary, however, to lower the roadway under seven of therailway bridges, in one case as much as
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