. The Street railway journal . Special shallow oondait forshort distance where theI standard depth cannot be installed. Slrtet Uailway Journal =i ; _ SCALE OF METERS 1 1 1 I 1 I SOLE OF FEFT FIG. 1—SECTIONS SHOWING STANDARD CONDUIT CONSTRUCTION USED IN BRUSSELS lines, and in 1897 had 27 or 28 km of double track equippedwith electricity. The greater part of this was trolley buton some of the lines within the center of the city, where thetrolley was not permitted, a conduit was employed. Thetrolley lines were installed by the French Thomson-Houston Company while the conduit lines were installed
. The Street railway journal . Special shallow oondait forshort distance where theI standard depth cannot be installed. Slrtet Uailway Journal =i ; _ SCALE OF METERS 1 1 1 I 1 I SOLE OF FEFT FIG. 1—SECTIONS SHOWING STANDARD CONDUIT CONSTRUCTION USED IN BRUSSELS lines, and in 1897 had 27 or 28 km of double track equippedwith electricity. The greater part of this was trolley buton some of the lines within the center of the city, where thetrolley was not permitted, a conduit was employed. Thetrolley lines were installed by the French Thomson-Houston Company while the conduit lines were installed direct-current station containing two 400-kw machines,two 250-kw machines and five 100-kw machines, the latterhaving been installed at the time of the establishment ofthe first electric lines in 1894. In spite of the fact that thestation is small and the transmission circuit has to be di-vided into two parts for use, respectively, on the conduit 330 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XX. No. 10. and the trolley lines, the economy of the current genera-tion has been very satisfactory and the consumption ofcoal per kil
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