. The ways of our railways . KLECIKIC CKAMS Al Ml DULli&B JKut uH UOCKs. N. K. by M. IVrighl.]. ELECTRIC CAPSTAN EOR SHINTINO WAOONS AT MIDDLESBOROlGH DOCKS, N. E. R. THE ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT. •• 131 the various platforms and the parcels office, andthis has proved so useful that a second traveller haslately been installed. At large stations an electricalplatform-indicator is employed to indicate to theofficials and pubhc the character of approachingtrains and the platforms at which they will arrive,The indicator is connected with a transmitter in thesignal-box. The same a
. The ways of our railways . KLECIKIC CKAMS Al Ml DULli&B JKut uH UOCKs. N. K. by M. IVrighl.]. ELECTRIC CAPSTAN EOR SHINTINO WAOONS AT MIDDLESBOROlGH DOCKS, N. E. R. THE ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT. •• 131 the various platforms and the parcels office, andthis has proved so useful that a second traveller haslately been installed. At large stations an electricalplatform-indicator is employed to indicate to theofficials and pubhc the character of approachingtrains and the platforms at which they will arrive,The indicator is connected with a transmitter in thesignal-box. The same apparatus in a smaller formis used as a train-router between signal-boxes. CHAPTER VI. The Control of the Trains. ROUGHLY speaking, four hundred million milesvare run annually by trains over the 22,600miles of our railway system. This means thatabout 18,500 trains run over each lineal mile during theyear, or about fifty a day, including both passengerand goods traffic. That one train should run in eachdirection every hour over each mile of railway in theUnited Kingdom may not appear a very high densityof trai
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