. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . 226 ft. above sea, butits excellent gradients were not obtainedwithout a great deal of constructionalwork. At Callender is a tunnel 830 length, on an easy curve, but the tun-nel forming about half of the ij^m^incline from Cowlairs down to Glasgowis better known to the public. It is di-vided by two short breaks of about 100yards each into three sections. Theseand the Callender tunnel were originallyas rather terrifying places, whitewashed;ind lighted with gas lamps placed 80 al
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . 226 ft. above sea, butits excellent gradients were not obtainedwithout a great deal of constructionalwork. At Callender is a tunnel 830 length, on an easy curve, but the tun-nel forming about half of the ij^m^incline from Cowlairs down to Glasgowis better known to the public. It is di-vided by two short breaks of about 100yards each into three sections. Theseand the Callender tunnel were originallyas rather terrifying places, whitewashed;ind lighted with gas lamps placed 80 alternately on each side of the ex-cavation. This Cowlairs incline formsthe only departure from the generally ex-cellent levels of the E. and G. Ry. Beingthought too steep for locomotive traction,a pair of beam engines, built by KerrNeilson & Co., of Glasgow, were placedat the head of the incline, of 80 horse-power each, but capable of working upto 100 H. P., and of being applied singlyor together. They turned a large drum,round which an endless rope went downone line, round a horizontal grooved. r.\SSENGER HELPED UP THE COWLAIRS liNXLlNE. above the sea at one point, and anothersurveyed later on, for going by Bathgateto join the Garnkirk and Glasgow Rail-way, would have passed over a height of500 feet. Experience showed that suchattitudes would not do for comparativelyshort lines, a new company was formedill 183s which succeeded in obtaining in1838 an act for The Edinburgh and Glas-gow Railway, with a branch to Falkirk. wheel, and back up the other. Exceptfor a short period these fine old beamengines have been at work ever since1842. The supports of the beams andoverhead gear are cast iron columns ofthe Grecian type, then considered sopeculiarly appropriate for the framing ofmarine and stationary engines. Thegradient of the incline is about I in 42or I in 43. Wire ropes now weighing 24 tons and lasting some 15 months, more orless, are used, but the original ones were
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