. The Street railway journal . -menced in December of the same year, and the first electriccar was operated on June 17, 1904. The center of the tramway tion of shorter lengths to allow for piecing in and closures. Therails are double spiked to hardwood sleepers, which are laidat 2-ft. 9-in. centers, the whole being laid on a ballasted bed,the road surface being made up with macadam in the ordinaryway. The joints are of the plain type, and are secured withsix-holed fish-plates, and are double-bonded with two 4/0 B. &S. Neptune pin bonds, the usual cross and intertrack bondsbeing provided. The o
. The Street railway journal . -menced in December of the same year, and the first electriccar was operated on June 17, 1904. The center of the tramway tion of shorter lengths to allow for piecing in and closures. Therails are double spiked to hardwood sleepers, which are laidat 2-ft. 9-in. centers, the whole being laid on a ballasted bed,the road surface being made up with macadam in the ordinaryway. The joints are of the plain type, and are secured withsix-holed fish-plates, and are double-bonded with two 4/0 B. &S. Neptune pin bonds, the usual cross and intertrack bondsbeing provided. The overhead equipment is on the span-wire system, a doubleline of trolley wire being used throughout. The standards aremade up of solid drawn, weldless steel tubes, and have an over-all length of 28 ft. They are set 6 ft. deep below the uppersurface of the rails, the excavation being entirely filled withconcrete. The trolley wires consist of hard-drawn copper .364in. diameter, with a breaking strain of 23 tons per square A VIEW OF MANDALAY LOOKING WEST FROM THE POWER HOUSE CHIMNEY system has been wisely placed at the new Zegyo Bazaar, onwhich the municipality is spending a large sum of money, andwhich promises to be, when finished, the largest bazaar of itskind in the East, and a position that will become a center ofattraction to the Burmese from all parts of the city. From theZegyo Bazaar the tramway radiates in three branches. Oneleads to the shore, where the Irawaddy Flotilla Companyssteamers embark their passengers, and so will cater for thetraveling public. The second runs to the Arakan Pagoda, andwill serve the suburbs which cluster around that famous third leads to the Court House, where the daily legal busi-ness of the city and district is transacted. The tramways have a route of 7 miles, double track through-out, and equal, exclusive of cross-over roads, approximately14 miles of single track. The rails are in accordance withstandard tramway practice, 6 in
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