Identifier: everyboysbookofr00prot (find matches)
Title: Every boy's book of railways and steamships
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Protheroe, Ernest
Subjects: Railroads Steamboats
Publisher: London : Religious Tract Society
Contributing Library: Boston College Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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it bent likea whip, which makes one think that he must havedriven a Toy engine; for the most outrageouscurves are swung round almost as if they didnot exist. The gauge of the line is only 1 foot11J inches, and of course the engine and carriagesare in proportion. The Festiniog railway not onlyserves local needs all the year round, but in summeris very popular with holiday excursionists, whoin most cases prefer to ride in the open slatewaggons. LivEKPOOL Overhead Railway In dealing with American railways we men-tioned the necessity for various companies elevatingtheir lines to remove perils from the streets;and the matter was left in order that our ownLiverpool Overhead Railway might afford effectiveillustration. Elevated railroads had their birth inNew York. Most of our readers are familiar withthe laying of a tram-line in the streets of a town,but in the case of the Overhead, the line is laidupon a continuous platform that is supported bypillars and piers. Thus the railway traffic can
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PLATE XXVII. LIVERPOOL OVERHEAD RAILWAY.TUNNELLING A LONDON TUBE RAILWAY. LINES HERE AND THERE i77 go on up above without any interference with thestreet traffic below, more than is caused by thesupports. The illustration will serve better thanany further description. The Liverpool Overhead Railway (PlateXXVII), which is double-tracked, stretches alongthe river frontage by the side of the docks for61 miles, starting at one of the northern docksand terminating at the neighbouring borough ofBootle. The line, which is worked electrically, wasopened in March, 1893. London Tube Railways A tube railway relieves congestion of the streetsin a manner altogether different from that of theoverhead railway, namely, by burrowing under-ground, so that it is nothing less than a continuoustunnel. Underneath London is a network of tuberailways, forming a subterranean world with overfifty miles of line, stations, signals, and thethousand and one contrivances to ensure safe andspeedy transport of millio

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