. The Street railway journal . constructed, and so on. The number of men continuouslyemployed on the work in Liverpool and Birkenhead aloneaveraged 200, to which must be added the workmen engaged inthe works of the British Westinghouse Company. The power house is situated at Shore Road, adjoining theHamilton Square Railway Station, Birkenhead. The powerproducing plant is all situated in one main building, which hasdimensions of 135 ft. x 145 ft. 9 ins., and is of steel work brickedin, finished neatly and substantially with stone new buildings adjacent to the generating house ar
. The Street railway journal . constructed, and so on. The number of men continuouslyemployed on the work in Liverpool and Birkenhead aloneaveraged 200, to which must be added the workmen engaged inthe works of the British Westinghouse Company. The power house is situated at Shore Road, adjoining theHamilton Square Railway Station, Birkenhead. The powerproducing plant is all situated in one main building, which hasdimensions of 135 ft. x 145 ft. 9 ins., and is of steel work brickedin, finished neatly and substantially with stone new buildings adjacent to the generating house are the 522 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXI. No. 14. battery house and fan house, and alongside these on the samesite is the old pump house connected with the tunnel drainagesystem. The boiler room occupies some 79 ft. of the main buildinglength. It contains nine Stirling water-tube boilers, each witha heating surface of 4370 sq. ft., and working at a normal stearapressure of 170 lbs. per square inch. Roney mechanical stokers. ELECTRICALLY OPERATED LIFT PUMP are fitted to the boilers, actuated by four Westinghouse Stand-ard steam engines of the 4>2-in. x 4-in. size. Economizers ofthe Clay cross type are used, the scrapers for these beingoperated by two Westinghouse direct-current multi-polarmotors, each of 5-hp capacity. The fuel used at present isStaffordshire coal, which is brought direct to the works by wayof the Docks Railway, a branch of which encircles the gener-ating station. The Docks Railway is fed, without preference,by all the main railways of the country. The coal is tipped from the wagons straight into a breakerdriven by a compound-wound motor of 7>^ hp. Thence itpasses on to a bucket elevator, which lifts it to the top floor ofthe boiler house, and distributes it into a series of hoppers orstorage bins, one for each pair of boilers, or five in all, of anaggregate capacity of about 600 tons. The conveyor is drivenby a standard direct-current motor of 15-hp ca
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