and engineering journal . nsvaal and elsewhere. There is also the throughpassenger traffic between Johannesburg and Durban, whichis fairlv heavy during certain seasons of the year. Owingto the conformation of the country the line in many places marshalling ol trains during tie . samph acci rding to thi -al ippiied to u to a -licit pei i d i t obsi i af ion tl daily mm i i trains in the down direction on each of the six : the line mentioned abovi avere 16, 22 I 26 23 I 20 1. in the cider given. Increase of Traffic. In accordance with your instruct], qs, we have taken intoaccount
and engineering journal . nsvaal and elsewhere. There is also the throughpassenger traffic between Johannesburg and Durban, whichis fairlv heavy during certain seasons of the year. Owingto the conformation of the country the line in many places marshalling ol trains during tie . samph acci rding to thi -al ippiied to u to a -licit pei i d i t obsi i af ion tl daily mm i i trains in the down direction on each of the six : the line mentioned abovi avere 16, 22 I 26 23 I 20 1. in the cider given. Increase of Traffic. In accordance with your instruct], qs, we have taken intoaccount in our estimates an increase ol 50 per cent, in bothgoods arid passenger traffic The total gross I i lown goids trains to be provided for is therefore approxin20,000 tons per day. If the present system of workilcontinued, for example, on the Mooi River-Maritzburgtion of the tine, the increased traffic will consist of about39 g< i ds trains in each direction per day, and something like \ / division a. Main : Durban to Glencoe. Sketch Map of the Durban-Marltzburg Section, showing probable extension to Glencoe. contains exceptionally steep gradients and sharp curves, themaximum gradient being I in 30, and the minimum radiusof curvature -5(10 feet. Durban is, of course, at sea level,and the altitude of Glencoe is about 1,300 feet. This, how-ever, is not the highest point, the maximum altitude betweenthese two places being over 5,000 feet. The rise fromDurban to Glencoe is far from uniform, there being manyreverse gradients, which create difficulties in working thetraffic. In general it may be said that this section, onaccount of the heavy traffic and the special nature of theline, is by far the most difficult of all the sections in theSouth African Railways, and in consequence the one in whichthe advantages of electrification show up most plainly. Dealing first with the goods traffic, the total gross tonnagedespatched under present conditions from Glencoe to Durbanis about 1
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