The street railway review (1891) (14761184882)

Identifier: streetrailwayrev06amer (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



Text Appearing Before Image:
notedsome time ago in the Stkket R.mlway Re\iew. The linehas now been completed, and bv the time this article appearsin (jrinl it will have been formallv opened for public running.Although the system is very far removed from ordinary railway practice, and has indeeil little l)earing on the sub- Rottingdean, which would practically have been an extensionof a small electric line that has been in existence at Brightonfor some vears. To d(j this, however, it w ould have beennecessary to pass over the cliff, and such a scheme woulilhave involved many engineering difficulties. Running theline along the foreshore, and using a car of special construc-tion, however, enabled the owners of the line to give passen-gers all the benefits of a short sea trip with perfectly steadvmovement. It shotdd be explained that the line is intendedpurely for pleasure purposes, and the cars are intended to riniat a speed not exceeding seven miles an hour. The special form of track which is employed on this rail-
Text Appearing After Image:
VIEWS ON BRIGHTON-ROTTINGDEAN SEASHORE ROAD. ject, there^are many novel features in the design that areinteresting. The line commences at Brighton, probably the most fash-ionable watering place on the south coast, and extends to thevillage of Rottingdean, some three or four miles distant.The line passes over the foreshore, a short distance awavfrom the coast, and at high tide is completely immersed.Indeed, at an ordinai-y full tide there is fifteen feet of waterabove the rails, while at low water the track is not more thanthree or four feet higher. It was, however, arranged by meansof a specially constructed car, that the condition of the tideat ordinarv weather would not interfere with the running.The accompanying illustrations show the car passing througha somewhat heavy swell, as well as through comparativelysmooth water. The reasons that led the promoter of therailway to adopt such a curious construction were twofold.In the first place it was desired to carry an electric line on t