. The Street railway journal . t to-gether, after the usual style, withcast iron. The tracks are always laid in the center of the distance between double-track centers is m (8 ins.), so that there is a space of .65 m (26 ins.) betweentwo passing cars, which are 2 m (6 ft. 6 ins.) in width. Thisspace allows a stout policeman to stand between the twocars. A double track is permitted on the streets onlywhere sufficient room is left at each side to allow an ordi- SECTION AND PLAN OF TIE ROD USED IN HAMBURG suburbs, not always, however, in the city itself, a
. The Street railway journal . t to-gether, after the usual style, withcast iron. The tracks are always laid in the center of the distance between double-track centers is m (8 ins.), so that there is a space of .65 m (26 ins.) betweentwo passing cars, which are 2 m (6 ft. 6 ins.) in width. Thisspace allows a stout policeman to stand between the twocars. A double track is permitted on the streets onlywhere sufficient room is left at each side to allow an ordi- SECTION AND PLAN OF TIE ROD USED IN HAMBURG suburbs, not always, however, in the city itself, and veryseldom in Altona. OVERHEAD CONSTRUCTION The trolley system is used throughout. In the narrowstreets the trolley wire is suspended from wall rosettes,fastened to the houses; wherever such a rosette was notpermitted, poles were erected. In the suburbs poles areused almost exclusively, set 35 m apart. Stranded spanwires, 6 mm in diameter (No. 2 wire), carry the trolleywire. Only Mannesman steel tube poles are used, and are. HOSE BRIDGE capped on top by an ornamental hood. The poles used ontangents are designed to have a tensile strength of 200 kg,while 1000 kg is the figure prescribed for the poles used atcurves. ( hi Jungfernstieg, a view of which is shown in the illus-tration on page 3, and which is one of the finest streets inHamburg, some special and very attractive double bracket 6 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XIX. No. i. poles have been used. They are m high and 17 m wide,that is, the brackets extend out on each side Si m, and theornamentation and scrolls are beautiful specimens of cop-persmith work. The cost of these poles, installed, wasabout 10,000 marks each. On account of their appear-ance, the people in Hamburg have nicknamed the streetGalgen Allee (Gallows Alley). The tops of the poles aresurmounted by arc lights. The trolley wire used in the suburbs is a No. o, mmin diameter, while within city limits a No. 000 wire, havinga figure 8 section, with cross se
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