. The Street railway journal . on the District Rail-way at Earls Court. Coal will be received on lighters in a tidalbasin at the east end of the station, or by rail atan unloading point of the West London Exten-sion Railway on the opposite side of ChelseaCreek. For unloading barge coal the basin isspanned by two traveling cranes, each working ai-ton grab; the coal is weighed in the tower at oneend of each of these cranes and dropped onto abelt conveyor, thence by duplicate inclined eleva-tors, 140 ft. high, to the top of the building. Railcoal will be taken from a hopper under the coalwagons b
. The Street railway journal . on the District Rail-way at Earls Court. Coal will be received on lighters in a tidalbasin at the east end of the station, or by rail atan unloading point of the West London Exten-sion Railway on the opposite side of ChelseaCreek. For unloading barge coal the basin isspanned by two traveling cranes, each working ai-ton grab; the coal is weighed in the tower at oneend of each of these cranes and dropped onto abelt conveyor, thence by duplicate inclined eleva-tors, 140 ft. high, to the top of the building. Railcoal will be taken from a hopper under the coalwagons by an inclined elevator to the top of thebuilding at the opposite end. The distributionover the bunkers is by duplicate belt conveyors,so arranged that the direction of travel of bothbelts can be reversed so as to handle coal comingin at either end. The storaee canaaty of thebunkers is 15,000 tons. The daily consumptionwill reach 800 tons, and six f (-<_• largest riverbarges can be placed in the basin at each ti-^--;;ir-- ...y„.^;T:..^ 96 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. [Vol. XXII. No. 3. Ashes will be removed by an industrial railway worked by astorage battery locomotive; two lines of rails will be laid underthe ash hoppers on the ground floor. The ashes will drop intoself-dumping buckets, to be unloaded into barges by pneumatichoists on the dock wall at the west end of the premises or storedin an adjoining bin if no barge is available. The capstans, barge basin gate mechanism and many of the THE ELECTRIC RAILWAYS ON LONG ISLAND For a territory so closely contiguous to New York it isindeed remarkable that there has not been greater developmentof the electric railway on Long Island. Of course, there is aboom on now that the Pennsylvania Railroad, as owner of theLong Island Railroad, has so greatly improved the service of
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