. The Street railway journal . tract time does not elapse for two months more, some sec-tions have been working since October last. POWER HOUSE The power house is a substantial brick building, located atthe South Mole, on the edge of the harbor, and alongsidethe railway. At one end of the building is located a smalliron building, in which the battery is housed. The mainbuilding is divided by a brick wall into an engine room, 87ft. long by 34 ft. wide, and a boiler room, 87 ft. long by 45 ; the engine room floor is some 6 ft. higher than the boil-er room, which allows for the carrying o
. The Street railway journal . tract time does not elapse for two months more, some sec-tions have been working since October last. POWER HOUSE The power house is a substantial brick building, located atthe South Mole, on the edge of the harbor, and alongsidethe railway. At one end of the building is located a smalliron building, in which the battery is housed. The mainbuilding is divided by a brick wall into an engine room, 87ft. long by 34 ft. wide, and a boiler room, 87 ft. long by 45 ; the engine room floor is some 6 ft. higher than the boil-er room, which allows for the carrying of exhaust pipes, andalso connecting cables underneath the main floor. The boiler room has installed in it at present four boilers,in two batteries of two boilers each, and additional room fortwo more boilers of the same capacity. The boilers are of theBabcock & Wilcox manufacture, each having a heating sur-face of 1426 sq. ft., and grate area of 28 sq. ft. They aredesigned for T6o-lbs. working pressure, and up to 150 5U-K\\ TKAXSFORMER PLACED ON A TRAM-WAY POLE IN FREMANTLE liOILER ROOM IN MUNICIPAL TRAMWAYS POWER HOUSE ing four in number. The Mayor of Fremantle is, ex-officio, thefifth member. The control of the trams and lighting is, there-fore, taken away from the councils, and handed to a boardconstituted for the management alone. This is the first andonly municipal tramway in Australia, the others being eitherState owned, as in New Soutli \\alcs, cr jirivately owned, as superheat. Each boiler has a water drum, 3 ft. 6 ins. indiameter, and 24 ft. long, and nine rows of 4-in. ^Manness-mann cold drawn steel tubes, the superheater of mild steeltubes is located underneath the rear part of the water drums,as is the usual practice with this type of boiler. The two feedpumps arc Worthington duplex, having steani cylinder, 6 ins. May 5, 1906.] STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. 707 in diameter, water cylinder y/2 ins. in diameter, with ; they are of the usual stan
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