. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . tween the two men was in some wayor other the cause of the accident. He points out that an effective track-circuit could be arranged in connectionwith the signal box near the station andthe next, so that with a train between thetwo, the home signal, which permits atrain to advance to the platform, couldnot be lowered. It has been noticed thatthe Mansell wheels used under passengercars in Great Britain, do not offer verygood connections for the passage of atrack current, and it has been foundn
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . tween the two men was in some wayor other the cause of the accident. He points out that an effective track-circuit could be arranged in connectionwith the signal box near the station andthe next, so that with a train between thetwo, the home signal, which permits atrain to advance to the platform, couldnot be lowered. It has been noticed thatthe Mansell wheels used under passengercars in Great Britain, do not offer verygood connections for the passage of atrack current, and it has been foundnecessary to bond these wheels from thelire to the axle in order to get a goodcircuit. The London and North Westernare proceeding with this work as speedilyas possible. Col. Yorke further remarks British metropolis, which has since beenelectrified. Some of our readers may not be awareof the fact that the buffer to which refers is an invention patented inEngland and the United States byMr. Frank Hedley. vice-president andgeneral manager of the InterboroughRapid Transit Company of New SECTION OF THE ANTI-COLLISIONBUFFER. Our half-tone illustration show-s thisplatform bumper, or as it is more aptlycalled, the anti-telescoping and anti-climbing device, as it appeared after a
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