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Title: The Street railway journal
Year: 1884 (1880s)
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Subjects: Street-railroads Electric railroads Transportation
Publisher: New York : McGraw Pub. Co.
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s inHamburg, some special and very attractive double bracket 6 STREET RAILWAY JOURNAL. (Vol. XIX. No. i. poles have been used. They are m high and 17 m wide,that is, the brackets extend out on each side Si m, and theornamentation and scrolls are beautiful specimens of cop-persmith work. The cost of these poles, installed, wasabout 10,000 marks each. On account of their appear-ance, the people in Hamburg have nicknamed the streetGalgen Allee (Gallows Alley). The tops of the poles aresurmounted by arc lights. The trolley wire used in the suburbs is a No. o, 8.3 mmin diameter, while within city limits a No. 000 wire, havinga figure 8 section, with cross section of 80 sq. mm, is usedRecently a wire having a rectangular shape, but roundedat the four corners, has been introduced. The thickness ofthis wire is 8 mm (5-16 in.), and the area is 90 sq. mm(157,880 circ. mils). Experience has shown that it is asimple matter to string this wire. To guard against contact between fallen telephone and
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STANDARD DOUBLE TRUCK trolley wires, wooden strips are secured above the wire,and are covered by a roofiing of thin tin. They are mount-ed on metal pins, soldered to the trolley wire every meter.These devices, however, have not given thorough protec-tion in the past. The telephone wires, in the act of falling,roll up and frequently make contact with the trolley wirefrom below. The device has to be employed, however,because the government prescribes its use, in order to pro-tect its telephone system. It is useless and costly, andmakes the otherwise sightly trolley wires look cumbersomeand objectionable. Out of the ten cases of broken wires which have oc-curred on the system since it was put in operation, sevenwere caused by the wires parting, two were caused bybreakage of the span wires, and one was due to the burningout of an insulating support. The number of wire breakagesis the smallest in Germany, taking into account the extentof the system and the traffic, which, since 1894, has b

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