. The Street railway journal . eeds and Wake-field, including Horbury, Ossett, Normanton, Castleford, Pon-tefract, Lofthouse and Rothwell. Eventually it will involve theoperation of some 75 miles of single track, linking together, bya frequent service, some of the most populous districts in theWest Riding of Yorkshire. A trunk line runs from Wake-field to Thwaite Gate, and there joins the Leeds CorporationTramways System. Bearing in mind the recent and importantdiscussions on the subject of joint running powers, it is inter-esting to note that it has been possible for the company to ar-rive at
. The Street railway journal . eeds and Wake-field, including Horbury, Ossett, Normanton, Castleford, Pon-tefract, Lofthouse and Rothwell. Eventually it will involve theoperation of some 75 miles of single track, linking together, bya frequent service, some of the most populous districts in theWest Riding of Yorkshire. A trunk line runs from Wake-field to Thwaite Gate, and there joins the Leeds CorporationTramways System. Bearing in mind the recent and importantdiscussions on the subject of joint running powers, it is inter-esting to note that it has been possible for the company to ar-rive at an arrangement with the Leeds Corporation underwhich cars can be run to the center of Leeds. Such an under-standing must result in the greatest convenience, and shouldmaterially add to the efficiency of the District Companys sys-tem and prove to be a useful feeder to the Corporation tram-ways. The total mileage constructed up to date is roughly 32^2miles of single track. The contract for the whole of the work was given to the. VIEW IN BULL RING, WAKEFIELD firm of Dick, Kerr & Company, Limited, the consulting engi-neer for the scheme being B. D. V. Cooper. Such a system obviously calls for high-tension transmission,as it would be, of course, impossible to work all the routes em-braced in the extended scheme from one central station. Themain station is situated at Belle Isle, Wakefield, where alter-nating current is generated at high pressure and transformedat sub-stations to direct current of 500 volts. One sub-stationis in use in Wakefield, about 1 mile from the power station,where three 200-kw rotary converters have been erected; an-other in Rothwell, with two 200-kw rotaries, and there willeventually be another at Castleford, which is about 10 milesfrom the power station, and ultimately a fourth at Ossett. The total length of tramways now in operation is approxi-mately 25 miles of single track, laid to standard gage. Theusual British tramway construction has been employed on
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