. The Street railway journal . Center Line of Loeo. -2 3 >1-4»| FIG. 3.—DETAILS OF THE VENTILATING AIR DUCTS. cently been subjected to several tests under working condi-tions. On June 29 the locomotive was coupled to a freighttrain weighing 279 tons and made a number of most successfultrips between Willesden Green and Uxbridge. It has also been Great Western trains through the northern part of the Circlebetween Edgware Road and Aldgate, for conveying the mainline passenger traffic from Pinner, Rickmansworth, VerneyJunction, etc., between Harrow and Baker Street, and also for 3*4 STREET RAIL
. The Street railway journal . Center Line of Loeo. -2 3 >1-4»| FIG. 3.—DETAILS OF THE VENTILATING AIR DUCTS. cently been subjected to several tests under working condi-tions. On June 29 the locomotive was coupled to a freighttrain weighing 279 tons and made a number of most successfultrips between Willesden Green and Uxbridge. It has also been Great Western trains through the northern part of the Circlebetween Edgware Road and Aldgate, for conveying the mainline passenger traffic from Pinner, Rickmansworth, VerneyJunction, etc., between Harrow and Baker Street, and also for 3*4 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXVI. No. 9. hauling freight trains over both the Circle and St. JohnsWood Line. Owing to the length of the trains and thecramped conditions existing at the termini, it has been neces-sary to keep the length of the locomotives down to the lowestpossible limit. This has been effected by using motors of asmaller size than usual and equipped with forced ventilation. The locomotive equipment consists of four motors, the nor-mal ratings of which are 200 hp each; but by aid of the forcedventila
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