Show I REALLY Y RAID R D TRANSIT r HE Sphere London Vella about a ai aI i I railway which I It about to 10 be hO con constructed CO rom Manchester la tel to Liverpool H of thirtyfour miles which Is 18 to have he the fastest tine time schedules In the world Passenger tins on this 1111 road which is to be unlike any other d In the tJI world must go from rom Manchester Manch t to Liverpool or from front Liver Liverpool Liverpool pool to Manchester ter In 11 twenty minutes This fills is la at the rate r te of 10 miles mrle an set hour ho r Is I getting over the Ule ground with witha a fairly je degree ol of rapidity The system is to be used I and electricity eJe is to b be the rothe p is 1 a monorail line in operation in I nl Its engines are propelled by steam Absolute A safe safety ty at miles an au hour lour even a greater gr ater speed ed which I J believed bene to be possible po albie is guaranteed by b the th pro IO promoter moter of the f fline line The first thought of Dc the uninitiated uninitiated in regard to lines hI s Is derailment must be inevitable The reverse is the Mae ease Derailment S Snot not only not inevitable it is absolutely Impossible And Au by hi tye he e way the term monorail Dono ran is rather a misnomer m nomer The f t I truth is that thet three e rails are ar rc used the illO Center venter being about three feet high and the others on the ground or near It on oil either side Thus the roadbed re ye resembles nothing not so much flinch as an a tri trl triangular angular an ular trestle The and nd rolling st ck are rP built like Uk saddlebags s 1 Part of or the en engine enne engine gine ne is 18 on one olle side of the high rail part par on the other as in is the ease o with the cars Thus derailment Is 1 rendered out of the question cju and lud high speed can be made nade at every point paint along alon the road rondo The projectors believe that great greater er speed can ean be made and with electricity than with Uh steam m henes henc the selection of oC the former power Of or orthe the advantages of the system the Sphere Shee e says S Engineers are agreed that average speeds 8 of over 01 seventy miles an hour are impossible Im on the Uie curves found sound on existing railways The fhe construction conati of ofa ofa ofa a special monorail track would en enable enable enable able very high speeds to be b reached with perfect safety and would do o away aa with that mixture of oC speeds s eeds which renders the problem of oC dealing with ex ox express press pre s slow and an goods lc one of difficulty to the rail railway way say wa companies The monorail mono tracks would Quid be laid Ink alongside the existing two ran ground tracks trucks or the cars could be run over overhead overhead head houd if It so 30 desired The monorail elec olec electric electric cars which are arc expected e to move moe at the rate of or miles an hour willbe willbe will willbe be slung very low down on the trestle rail 1 fJ the propulsion being nS obtained on un the top rail ran by b upright wheels wheel |