Order for 104 coaches of all steel construction and integral design placed with Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Co for completion in 1953; length oa 57 ft 1 1/2 in.; width 10 ft 4 in.; height 12 ft; truck wheelbase 7 ft; weight, empty, 60,900 lb; Crompton Parkinson traction motors are of usual series wound type; each of cars has 68-hp motors capable of accelerating fully loaded car at 2.3 mph per sec, giving top speed of 55 mph approximately.


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    Title :

    Rolling stock for Toronto underground


    Additional title:

    Ry Gaz


    Published in:

    Publication date :

    1952


    Size :

    2 pages


    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Print


    Language :

    English


    Keywords :


    Electric rolling stock for Toronto subway

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    Electric rolling stock for Toronto subway

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