Mandalay tram
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The tram Mandalay was the Mandalay Electric Company in Burmese Mandalay built and operated in October 1902 with a capital of 200,000 pounds was founded.
history
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The company Dick, Kerr & Co. began in December 1902 with the construction of the tram. On June 17, 1904, the first electric tram went into operation. From the center at Zegyo Bazaar there were three lines that went to the steamboat dock, the Arakan Pagoda and the court.
The power station on 78th Street had three Babcock & Wilcox water-tube boilers with a pressure of 11 bars. There was also an office building, garage and repair shops.
The track had a gauge of 1,067 mm (3 feet 6 inches , Cape gauge ) and a length of eleven kilometers. The line was double-tracked and electrified over the entire length. The 45 meter long rails were 150 millimeters high with a 38 millimeter (1.5 inch) deep groove. They were attached to hardwood sleepers with double nails.
There were 24 single deck, electrically powered, 48-seat open tram cars built by the Electric Railway & Tramway Carriage Works in Preston , Lancashire . The car bodies were 7,430 millimeters long and 1,800 millimeters wide. The bogies were manufactured by Brush and their drives were powered by 25B motors from Dick, Kerr & Co., which had around 28 hp and could be braked using resistors provided for this purpose if necessary. The roof frames were made entirely of teak and planked with cotton soaked in white oil paint. There were 100 volt electric headlights at both ends of the cars.
The overhead line and rails were badly damaged in an air raid on April 3, 1942 during the Second World War and were not put back into operation afterwards.
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c Electric Tramway in Mandalay. Street Railway Review, November 20, 1904. Page 913.
- ^ Michael D. Leigh, The Evacuation of Civilians from Burma: Analyzing the 1942 Colonial Disaster. A&C Black, April 24, 2014. Page 161.
