. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . FIG. :. ered by the geared cylinders the engines given in Railway & Locomotive Exgi-give an absolutely steady motion, differ- neerixg of a mono-railway, constructed oning very much from machines constructed the Lartigue system, in Algeria. We now 128 RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. April, 1913. give illustrations o) an interesting littlerailway constructed on this system in thesouthwest of Ireland, which has been op-erated for both passenger and goodstraffic for close on quarter of a cent
. Railway and locomotive engineering : a practical journal of railway motive power and rolling stock . FIG. :. ered by the geared cylinders the engines given in Railway & Locomotive Exgi-give an absolutely steady motion, differ- neerixg of a mono-railway, constructed oning very much from machines constructed the Lartigue system, in Algeria. We now 128 RAILWAY AND LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERING. April, 1913. give illustrations o) an interesting littlerailway constructed on this system in thesouthwest of Ireland, which has been op-erated for both passenger and goodstraffic for close on quarter of a century. The Listowel & Ballybunion Railwayconnects Listowel. a market town andstation on the Great Southern & Western imagined, all the making-up of the trainshas to be done piece-meal. The peculiar construction of the linealso necessitates the employment of veryextraordinary locomotives and rollingstock. The engines each have two smallboilers, connected by a common steampipe, the working pressure Vicing 150 TRAIN ARRIVING AT BALLYBUNION STATION. Railway line from Limerick to Tralee andKillarney, with Ballybunion, a small butgrowing village on the borders of theAtlantic Ocean, having a remarkablebeach, and much frequented in the sum-mer as a seaside resort. The railway isabout 10 miles long. As is well known, the main feature ofthe Lartigue system is that it is a singleelevated rail raised about 3 ft. 3 in. abovethe level of the ground. The double-headed rails are of steel, weighing 28 the yard and 31 ft. long. The rails aresupported on A shaped trestles ofangle-iron, connected at their lower endsto a steel sleeper 3 ft. 3 in. long, andspaced the same distance apart, except atthe joints, where this distance is de-creased one-half. The angle-irons at thetop of the supports are bent vertically,so as to fit under the rail head, andagainst the web, a 24-in. bolt connectingthe three parts. The trestles have stif-fening ties, and these also carry the lat-eral guide rails, a
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