. The Street railway journal . 41,102 9,1818,84380,77356,550 31,32242,920123,191192,821259,509156,521 t 3,986t 2,663 Street Railway Journal Vol. XX. NEW YORK AND CHICAGO, SEPTEMBER 6, 1902 No. 10. THE TRAMWAY SYSTEM OF HALIFAX, ENGLAND The corporation of the city of Halifax in Yorkshire hasowned its electric-lighting system since 1894, but aboutthree or four years ago the city acquired its tramway sys-tem, and steps had to be taken to provide the necessarypower from the existing stations. Several 500-volt direct-current units were installed, but the extent of the tramwaysystem soon made it evi
. The Street railway journal . 41,102 9,1818,84380,77356,550 31,32242,920123,191192,821259,509156,521 t 3,986t 2,663 Street Railway Journal Vol. XX. NEW YORK AND CHICAGO, SEPTEMBER 6, 1902 No. 10. THE TRAMWAY SYSTEM OF HALIFAX, ENGLAND The corporation of the city of Halifax in Yorkshire hasowned its electric-lighting system since 1894, but aboutthree or four years ago the city acquired its tramway sys-tem, and steps had to be taken to provide the necessarypower from the existing stations. Several 500-volt direct-current units were installed, but the extent of the tramwaysystem soon made it evident that a more economical ing with its own roof, and is equipped with four Lan-cashire boilers, 7 ft. 6 ins. diameter by 30 ft. long, with two3 ft. flues in each, three being by Yates & Thorn, of Black-burn, and one by Heaton, of Manchester. All the fur-naces are equipped with patent self-cleaning furnaces andmechanical stokers by Thomas Henderson, of are also six boilers supplied by Babcock & Wilcox,. FIG. I.—PORTION OF HALIFAX POWER STATION, SHOWING THREE iooo-HP DIRECT-CURRENT UNITS. method of transmitting power for the outlying lines wouldhave to be adopted, and power is now being transmittedby means of high voltage, three-phase generators androtary converters in the sub-stations. This portion of theplant has just been completed, and as it is said to be thefirst in England to be equipped in this way with apparatus,of purely British manufacture, it possesses a peculiar in-terest. In view of the fact that the system itself has neverbeen described in these pages, some particulars of it willalso be given in the following article. The power-house building is of gray stone and ex-tremely substantial. The boiler house is a separate build- most of which are fitted with the B. & W. chain gratestokers. Superheaters are used, 100 degs. of superheatbeing obtained, and the boiler pressure used is 130 square inch. Adjoining the boiler house is the pump room, i
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