. The street railway review . has continued to workexperimentally on the subject of high speed trains, andhe has so far succeeded in impressing the state engi-neers of Belgium with his designs that arrangementshave been made for the construction of a line threemiles long at the Brussels International Exhibition to beheld next April. The track will be of oval shape, andfrom the agreement which a Review representative hasseen the inventor guarantees a speed of ninety-five milesan hour on the end curves, which have a radius of some500 yards. The electrical part of the work is in the handsof Thoma
. The street railway review . has continued to workexperimentally on the subject of high speed trains, andhe has so far succeeded in impressing the state engi-neers of Belgium with his designs that arrangementshave been made for the construction of a line threemiles long at the Brussels International Exhibition to beheld next April. The track will be of oval shape, andfrom the agreement which a Review representative hasseen the inventor guarantees a speed of ninety-five milesan hour on the end curves, which have a radius of some500 yards. The electrical part of the work is in the handsof Thomas Parker, who was mainly responsible for theelectrical equipment of the Liverpool Overhead Railway, to run on guide rails fixed on each side of the inverted\-shaped structure. The inventor holds that it wouldbe dangerous to accelerate the present speed of trains onordinarv steam railway tracks, and the type of line whichhe has selected he considers to be the only practicableform of structure that combines safety with KAILWAY FKUM FEURS TO PANISSIERES—LARTIGUE SYSTEM. This single line rail, or the Lartigue system as it is morecommonly called, consists of a girder carrying a double-headed steel rail supported on trestles which are framedon a ground sleeper. About three feet below the uppersurface of the rail the trestle is consolidated b} crossbracing, which also carries on each side a steel guide
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