Identifier: streetrailwayrev04amer (find matches)
Title: The street railway review
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: American Street Railway Association Street Railway Accountants' Association of America American Railway, Mechanical, and Electrical Association
Subjects: Street-railroads
Publisher: Chicago : Street Railway Review Pub. Co
Contributing Library: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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der British dominion.Its area is 139,000 square miles, and its population num-bers 35,000,000 souls. Madras, the capital city, althougha coast town, has no harbor, being reached from theroads, seven miles out to sea. Its population in 1891was 450,000. It was founded in 1639 by the British andsince has had a number of changes of ownership, result-ing again in British possession. The town is divided intoBlack Town and English Town, the former beinjr great- supervision of Thomas Parker, M. I. C. E., M. I. E. E.,F. R. S. E., director of works of the Electric Construc-tion Company, of Wolverhampton, England. It will be a conduit system, and is care^ully worked outin every detail to allow a dry conduit and perfect contact.The line will run in the center of the road and will bedouble tracked from a point on Esplanade road, oppositethe Christian college, to the central power station atEgmore. The right hand rail is of the ordinary girdertype, weighing 56 pounds to the yard. The rail will rest
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IIIE ESPLANAlil , est in population and area and the latter the mostpowerful. Up to date the system of transportation has been aseries of primitive cabs, sedan chairs and bob-tail horsecars. But even the lazy Indian is getting tired of thosemethods and demanding something better. The Anglo-Saxon is to meet the demand, and whenan Englishman does anything for the Provincial he doesit v^^ell. So with the street electric railway in Madras. The Madras Electric Tramways Company, which is tofurnish the miscellaneous population of the city with con-venient modern and rapid intramural transportation is,naturally, an Enghsh corporation. The road is plannedby and the materials manufactured under the personal on a^longitudinal bed of concrete and on cross sleepersevery five feet. The left-hand rail coming from the power house, is aslot rail bolted to cast iron yokes buried two feet belowthe road level and resting on nine inches of concrete.The yokes are placed five feet apart. The yokes arecased

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