. The Street railway journal . LONGITUDINAL SECTION OF MAIN GENERATING STATION the plan it does not abut on the main road, a space 100 ft. deephaving been reserved for building purposes. It consists of thecar house proper, fitting shop, carpenters shop, painters shop,armature room, blacksmiths shop, brass and general stores,mess room, recreation room, caretakers house, offices, com-mittee room, boiler house, stables, cart shed, motor house, menslavatory, oil stores, etc. The buildings are, like the generating The carpenters shop is 80 ft. x 35 ft. \y2 ins., containing twopits. The painters sho
. The Street railway journal . LONGITUDINAL SECTION OF MAIN GENERATING STATION the plan it does not abut on the main road, a space 100 ft. deephaving been reserved for building purposes. It consists of thecar house proper, fitting shop, carpenters shop, painters shop,armature room, blacksmiths shop, brass and general stores,mess room, recreation room, caretakers house, offices, com-mittee room, boiler house, stables, cart shed, motor house, menslavatory, oil stores, etc. The buildings are, like the generating The carpenters shop is 80 ft. x 35 ft. \y2 ins., containing twopits. The painters shop, which is an extension of the carpen-ters shop, is 70 ft. long. Space has also been reserved in theseshops for a complete equipment of woodworking machines andthe necessary benches. These two shops are divided by twoKinnear rolling doors, and together will accommodate ten cars,making altogether in these shops a total accommodation for. CROSS-SECTION OF MAIN GENERATING STATION station, faced with red standstock bricks and stone dressings. The car house proper consists of three bays, each span and containing three tracks, accommodating alto-gether fifty-five cars. The rails are supported throughout onpiers, thus forming pits 4 ft. 6 ins. deep under the whole area,excepting for a short space at each end. The entrances to thecar house and to the shops are fitted with Kinnear rolling doors. The fitting shop averages 130 ft. x 41 ft. 6 ins., and is 25 to the eaves. It contains two tracks, the rails for whichare supported on piers as in the car house proper. This shopwill accommodate eight cars. seventy-three cars. The stores and workshops are heated onthe low-pressure hot water system. Two small district car houses have been erected on the samelines as the main car depot, one in Narborough Road and one inLondon Road; each of these contains two tracks with pitsunder, and will accommodate six cars; an
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