. The Street railway journal . with a height from the floor to the attics of40 ft., and is lined internally by enameled fire brick in vari-ous shades. The old boiler eciuipment of the station con-sisted of four 300-hp Lancashire boilers, and an additionalfour of 500 hp each have been put in by Messrs. Cooper & THE GENERATING STATION The tramways department obtains its cur-rent for the electric cars at present fromthe same generating station that providescurrent for lighting purposes. A large new]i!)\ver house has, however, just been com-pleted, and is being equipped, adjoining theelectric ligh
. The Street railway journal . with a height from the floor to the attics of40 ft., and is lined internally by enameled fire brick in vari-ous shades. The old boiler eciuipment of the station con-sisted of four 300-hp Lancashire boilers, and an additionalfour of 500 hp each have been put in by Messrs. Cooper & THE GENERATING STATION The tramways department obtains its cur-rent for the electric cars at present fromthe same generating station that providescurrent for lighting purposes. A large new]i!)\ver house has, however, just been com-pleted, and is being equipped, adjoining theelectric light station, which will virtuallyhereafter be one station and under one man-agement. It is in the center of the city andis on a piece of ground at the corner of Dud-hope Crescent Road and Lochee Road. There are two new boiler houses—one88 ft. X 61 ft., and the other 75 ft. x 61 larger one will hold eight boilers and thesmaller one seven. The roof is strongly framedwith steel girders so as to carry the cooling INTERIOR OF CAR HOUSE Creig. The accommodation, however, will be suiScient foreleven other boilers of a similar capacity when will bring the total boiler capacity of the station at the i6 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XVIIL No. i. present time up to 3200 hp for both Hghting and haulagepurposes. The new generating plant consists of two Willans-Parkercombined units of 300 kw capacity, and a large Willans-Parker unit of 500 kw. capacity. The engines are Willans& Robinsons high-speed triple expansion engines, each sethaving high, intermediate and low-pressure cylinders,working on separate cranks. The two smaller sets are of450 hp each, and the large set of 750 hp. They are coupleddirect to a Parker four-pole dynamo. The smaller sets runat 357 r. p. m., and the larger one at 250 r. p. m. The trac-tion generating plant thus has a combined horse power of1650, and has been supplied by Lowden Brothers, Dun-dee. Space is left for five other dynamos and eng
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