. Electric railway journal . affic regulators are stationed toaccelerate traffic movement. These men are on dutyfrom 8 to 10 and 12 to They assume theresponsibility of starting off each car so that the con-ductor can begin earlier to collect fares. As two pas-sengers can readily board the car at one time, noattempt is made to load people in queues. Only the rearplatform is used for entrance and exit. Rolling Stock in Belfast The standard car of Belfast is double-deck with openvestibules and open ends on the upper deck. It is 27 in. over all, with 5-ft. 6-in. platforms, sea
. Electric railway journal . affic regulators are stationed toaccelerate traffic movement. These men are on dutyfrom 8 to 10 and 12 to They assume theresponsibility of starting off each car so that the con-ductor can begin earlier to collect fares. As two pas-sengers can readily board the car at one time, noattempt is made to load people in queues. Only the rearplatform is used for entrance and exit. Rolling Stock in Belfast The standard car of Belfast is double-deck with openvestibules and open ends on the upper deck. It is 27 in. over all, with 5-ft. 6-in. platforms, seats twenty-two passengers below and thirty eight above, and weighs24,640 lb. The cars are mounted on Brush singletrucks with two 35-hp. Westinghouse No. 200 controllers are Westinghouse No. 90 M with elec-tric braking features. Magnetic sanders are also usedin operating the slipper brake as an addition to ordinaryhand brakes. Illumination is afforded by 16-cp. lampsenclosed in molded glass. The conductors pull cord. CASTLE JUNCTION, THE GATHERING POINT FOR ALLCARS AT BELFAST(Note booth where traffic regulators make out reports) is still the only signal device, but push-button signalsavailable for both the passenger and the conductor areunder consideration. Although illuminated roller destination signs arecarried over both dash and step, the management isconsidering the installation of a big route number signwhich would be carried from the upper deck so that aprospective passenger would be sure to see it even ifa large motor truck or wagon happened to be obscuring the lower deck of the car. Route information boardsare placed over the central window of all cars as incommon British practice. An unusual—and appreciated—feature of Belfast carequipment is the installation of Neill clocks. These areelectrically operated by means of two Western Electric2-volt dry cells, Bluebell type. The accuracy of these
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