. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ST.\TION IN ;.\N. JAPANESE ALL-ROUND ENGINE. miles long runs ofT to the GovernmentDockyard and naval station at Yoko-suka. .\ a mile of this branch isspread over as many as 8 tunnels. Sofar as Yamakit:i. 58)4 miles, the courseof the main line is fairly easy, but therea mountain range running at right an-gles to it has to be crossed and in 12]/^miles a rise of 1,138 feet is effected. Go-temba. the summit of the bank, is above the sea, but an equally rapidfall take
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . ST.\TION IN ;.\N. JAPANESE ALL-ROUND ENGINE. miles long runs ofT to the GovernmentDockyard and naval station at Yoko-suka. .\ a mile of this branch isspread over as many as 8 tunnels. Sofar as Yamakit:i. 58)4 miles, the courseof the main line is fairly easy, but therea mountain range running at right an-gles to it has to be crossed and in 12]/^miles a rise of 1,138 feet is effected. Go-temba. the summit of the bank, is above the sea, but an equally rapidfall takes place on the other side. The■extreme severity of this section may bejudged from the fact that a gradient ofI in 40 extends for 15 miles, in whichdistance from the summit at Gotembathe railway is only a little above sea levelat Numadoza. having come downthrough 7 tunnels, totaling i;<| milesin length. There are also a number oflarge bridges and some very sharp<urves. On the level section now reached isa bridge of nine spans, each of 200 feet,carrying the line across the river Fuji, miles
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