. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . cending auxiliary arrangement was afteiwards repeated on the Listowel andBallybunion Railway, Ireland. The en-gine had two grooved wheels, IS ins. indiameter, and the cylinders were 4/> , with a 7 in. stroke. The boil-ers gave a total heating surface of 70sq it Ilic engine worked at a iteanpressure of 100 lbs. i tin- square inch,and could easily negotiate 30-ft. curvesand could haul 70 tons on the level and0 tons on an incline of 1 in 33 at sixmiles an hour. In Ap
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . cending auxiliary arrangement was afteiwards repeated on the Listowel andBallybunion Railway, Ireland. The en-gine had two grooved wheels, IS ins. indiameter, and the cylinders were 4/> , with a 7 in. stroke. The boil-ers gave a total heating surface of 70sq it Ilic engine worked at a iteanpressure of 100 lbs. i tin- square inch,and could easily negotiate 30-ft. curvesand could haul 70 tons on the level and0 tons on an incline of 1 in 33 at sixmiles an hour. In April. 1886, Mr. Behr obtainedParliamentary powers for the construc-tion of about 10] I miles nf railway lie There is only one intermediate station, on each side and the centre of gravity I iselton, but there are no less than 42 being kept as much as possible below the occupation and public road crossings, I I mailer illustrations are of this oi i Hi- former necessitating the use road, of a s hat curious fo draw iliar feature of the line is the which is lowered onto the level ent substituted for.
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