. Railway Times . Engine and Generator in Rail Motor Car. were ^84,000, and the working expenses came to 82 per this amount. Fifteen bridges had to be provided totalling,v345 ft. in length, besides a viaduct on the short branch toa hill station, 800 ft. high, near the coast, with gradientsas steep as 1 in 22, worked adhesively. .-Vs many as 4,000natives were employed at one time on the line. The railsand sleeijers on all the WCst African Government of steel, the former weighing 28 to 55 lbs. per lineal vardwith steel kons. For many years the engine power consistedof
. Railway Times . Engine and Generator in Rail Motor Car. were ^84,000, and the working expenses came to 82 per this amount. Fifteen bridges had to be provided totalling,v345 ft. in length, besides a viaduct on the short branch toa hill station, 800 ft. high, near the coast, with gradientsas steep as 1 in 22, worked adhesively. .-Vs many as 4,000natives were employed at one time on the line. The railsand sleeijers on all the WCst African Government of steel, the former weighing 28 to 55 lbs. per lineal vardwith steel kons. For many years the engine power consistedof six-coupled tank engines, at a pressure of 160 lbs., with 28 wheels. The late^st is ;i 4-8-0 tender locomotivewith six-whoolcd tender, wrij^hinq- altogether about ;; i.,;.^rior of Rail Motor Cti Jhe Lagos and tiuld Coast locomotives arc similar to theabove. The \.i;.R. coupler has been used successfullylor many years but is now being superseded ny the .\. coupler. Most of the goods-stock on all the on bogies with pi-essed steel frames. Chilled wheelsare in use on the Sierra Leone and Gold Coast railways, but atI^g()S they are being replaced by steel-tired wheels with pressed stetl centres. The ciirriage stock is of the end-door corridor type with the brake-wheel on the brakes have hitherto been the only ones in use, butvacuum brakes are being introduced on the Lagos next British railway is the Gold Coast Line fromSekondi to Kumasi, a short branch from Tarkwa where there is a gold mine. The suney was first begun in andconstruction was started in the following year on the 3 ft. 6 This is the final gauge adopted by the British . e.\c<
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