Show q q ar rt tal OE st abot ILA A narrow gauge C U slon railway eighteen inch lochra wide anil 0 one 0 niilo mile in length his has been laid at tho the Aldor shott camp E england as an experiment this thia railway IS 13 specially calculated to hect military requirements requirement a and consi cona iata tits ofa of a continuous continUo Ul structure of wood or iron in A single row of pilla pillars ro stan stand R nt t intervals along the line the lower lovier ends hebting upon wooden and being steadied ty by dia ODil I 1 alio llio lie lengths of tho the pillars vary from three to thirty feet according to tho the contour content of the ground the superstructure con aaita of two longitudinal of wood or iron placed sido side by rido fide with a dis tance of eighteen inches between them and bolted to strutted from and on eup p ported by the pillars these longitudinal IT in m beams form biform sleepers and carry four rails two ott on the upper sur faces and two on outer curiaco rails raila aro are ol of iron and carry carr the t train r in tho 1 I ho sido side rails aro are of wood or ir iron and are arc nailed along tho the beams near the lower edged and act acl as guides for tho the wheels of the fagoni where didiog occur the switches are arc ly by ina ing a twenty feet fact length 0 of f the railway to pivot on 0 one oc end while the other cad resting on a pair of rollers travels from the main line to the aling siding iho carriages caning cs aro are suspended sui below ow t alic lie axles and aro are with horizontal liach becci running against tile tho guido guide rails raila the is BICCI ally 11 designed desiga cd for traveling trach ng on this peculiar kracl miles of this road aro are to lc be laid iid about the ho camps at al alder and tho the soldiers dt at leisure times aro are to be exercised in taking aling tho the structures down and putting them up again for military tan pot ort service alder aider it may be mentioned is a largo large permanent camri camp with barracks situ aitu aled about thirteen miles southwest of i london |