LATEST THING IN RAILWAYS.
A railway with some novel features has been recently opened between the station of Ribeau villi (on the Straasburg Basle line) iinrl the town of that name, about 4 kiloin. distant. The line is on the road (with which the rails are level), and has a narrow gatr.'e of one metie. There are inclines of forty mem., and curves of fifty metres radin.*. The train requires only one engineer and one guard. The locomotives weigh nine ton*, and among the rolling Btook are ten platform waggons, which are arranged for conveying waggons from the main line, without the goods being transferred. These platforms carry two rails, corresponding to the normal larger gauge, and they rest on two bogie trucks, having four wheels each. Thus the larger waggons can be conveyed over the sharpest curves of the narrow line. These platform waggons weigh three tons, and the large w.iggons, with full charge, weigh fifteen tons, giving a total weight of eighteen tons, which, divided among the four axles, gives a maximum load of only four tons per axle. Passengers as well aa goods, are conveyed on the line. The total cosr. of the line has not exceeded 250.000 francs.
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Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume X, Issue 571, 21 August 1880, Page 1 (Supplement)
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202LATEST THING IN RAILWAYS. Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume X, Issue 571, 21 August 1880, Page 1 (Supplement)
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