. The street railway review . SITB-ST.\TI()N ON LIVERPOOL & SOCTUPdHT (TYPICAL OF ALl- FOUR). Other. The schedule of fast trains will be unaltered, exceptthat an express will run in tach direction hourly, and an addi-tional express service will be established to Crosscns, a suburbof Sonthport, giving that suburb a service of 17 trains a day each In addition there arc sub-stations at Sandhills, Scaforth and Birk-dale. The engine room is 280x65 f- ad the boiler house 250x50ft. The building consists of a steel roof in two bays carried uponsteel columns which arc independent of the brick KL
. The street railway review . SITB-ST.\TI()N ON LIVERPOOL & SOCTUPdHT (TYPICAL OF ALl- FOUR). Other. The schedule of fast trains will be unaltered, exceptthat an express will run in tach direction hourly, and an addi-tional express service will be established to Crosscns, a suburbof Sonthport, giving that suburb a service of 17 trains a day each In addition there arc sub-stations at Sandhills, Scaforth and Birk-dale. The engine room is 280x65 f- ad the boiler house 250x50ft. The building consists of a steel roof in two bays carried uponsteel columns which arc independent of the brick KLECTRIC TRAINS ON THE LIVERPOOL & SOUTHPOKT RY. rt-ay. A special baggage car has been built to take care of the parcelbusiness along the line. The electrical energy is generated as three-phase alternating cur-rent of 7,500 volts, stepped down and transformed to direct current 1 here arc four L500-kw. units for normal demands and in addi-tion there is a fifth unit of 750 kw. The four main engines weresupplied by Yates & Thoni, as were the boilers. They are of thehorizontal cross compound type and the normal load of each is May jc. STREET Kl-AIEW. 323 h. p. with a steam pressure of 160 lb. per sq. in., but they aredesigned for an overload of 20 per cent. The fifth unit is a verticalcross compound engine, capable of developing 1,180 h. p. running at»| r. p. m. The alternators are three-phase, 25 cycles, the larger running at7; and the smaller at ^ r. p. m. These machines are made at thePreston works of Dick, Kerr & Co., as was the rest of the electrica
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