. The Street railway journal . ict line, purchased some time agofrom the Dublin Southern Tramways Company, and theClontarf line to the north. Both of these lines have been ated the fitting shop, stores, mens room, etc. A separatecoal store, with a capacity for 3000 tons, is placed at thedock end of the boiler house. The whole of the construc-tional steel work for the power house, including the chim-ney shafts, was supplied by Riter & Conley. The boiler house is 131 ft. x 76 ft., and is arranged fortwenty Babcock & Wilcox boilers, placed in batteries oftwo, five batteries on each side of the st
. The Street railway journal . ict line, purchased some time agofrom the Dublin Southern Tramways Company, and theClontarf line to the north. Both of these lines have been ated the fitting shop, stores, mens room, etc. A separatecoal store, with a capacity for 3000 tons, is placed at thedock end of the boiler house. The whole of the construc-tional steel work for the power house, including the chim-ney shafts, was supplied by Riter & Conley. The boiler house is 131 ft. x 76 ft., and is arranged fortwenty Babcock & Wilcox boilers, placed in batteries oftwo, five batteries on each side of the stoking floor, whichis 18 ft. 6 ins. wide. These boilers, of which six pairs arebeing erected, have each a heating surface of 2530 sq. tubes are 16 ft. long, and are expanded into forgedand welded mild steel headers. In addition to the ordinarysteam and water drums, which are 36 ins. in diameter and21 ft. 4 ins. long, each boiler is provided with a separatesteam drum, 20 ins. in diameter, connected to the back end. Railway Journal FIG ENGINE AND GENERATOR UNIT in operation for some time from their own power stations,the southern line being the older. The work upon whichthe company has been recently engaged has been to con-nect these two sections by an extensive system within thecity. This work has just been completed, and the manynovel features of construction will make a discussion ofthe system of interest on both sides of the Atlantic. rowER he Dublin United Tramways Company is erecting amain power station on a valuable plot of ground owned byit, some 500 ft. long x 325 ft. deep, fronting on the GrandCanal Dock on the south side of the River Liffey, and to-ward the east end of the city. The buildings at present be-ing erected occupy only a portion of this ground, and it isintended to erect a spacious car building and repairingshop and car barn on the remainder. ^ The general plan of the power house will be seen fromFig. 2. It is a steel framed brick building with
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