. The street railway review . l designed to be used in connec-tion with this new wire. 864 (^ti£\aiWayj\eym^ UNDERGROUND RAILWAY AT BUDAPEST. The London Electrical Review has the followingaccount of this interesting road: This line has been constructed under the residentialstreets of Budapest. The whole track had to be doneon the cut and cover system. The line is double trackthroughout, and will be opened for trallic, it is believed,next month. The stations are only feet apart, andit is intended to run the cars at a maximum speed of 24miles an hour. A novel system of speed regulation
. The street railway review . l designed to be used in connec-tion with this new wire. 864 (^ti£\aiWayj\eym^ UNDERGROUND RAILWAY AT BUDAPEST. The London Electrical Review has the followingaccount of this interesting road: This line has been constructed under the residentialstreets of Budapest. The whole track had to be doneon the cut and cover system. The line is double trackthroughout, and will be opened for trallic, it is believed,next month. The stations are only feet apart, andit is intended to run the cars at a maximum speed of 24miles an hour. A novel system of speed regulation liasbeen adopted, the object of which is to do away withthe necessity for any intelligence on the part of themotorman. The motorman can only cut the motors inand out. but cannot regulate their speed, this being doneautomatically. A solenoid is connected to the brushterminals of the motor on the car. and as the counterelectro-motive force increases, so does the magnetismof the solenoid. The device is extremely ingenious, and. END OF MOTOR CAR, BUDAPEST UNDERGROUND ROAD. it can be regulated in such a way as to practical!}- fix thedistance in which the car will attain its maximum brakes are also used, similar to the Sperry brakenow adopted by the General Electric, of are two motors on each car, they also being usedfor braking by short-circuiting them, and making themwork as generators The height of the tunnel from thetop of the rail is feet; the tunnel could not be madeany higher, as otherwise it would have been lower thanthe level of the Danube, and that would have increasedthe expense of construction enormously. The cars havebeen specially built; each car is mounted on two inside they are exceedingly handsome, and lookmore like the saloon of a yacht than a tram car. Thereare twenty-nine seats, and there is room for fifteen tostand up. The total weight of a car when empty istwelve tons. One 50-horse-power motor is mounted oneach truck
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