Minutes of the Menston Asylum Committee : "Railway Siding" Sub-Committee, June 4th, 1897 ...; "Farm" Sub-Committee, June 4th, 1897 ... [etc.].

  • Menston Asylum. Committee.
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[1897]
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Credit: Minutes of the Menston Asylum Committee : "Railway Siding" Sub-Committee, June 4th, 1897 ...; "Farm" Sub-Committee, June 4th, 1897 ... [etc.]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    198 AT A MEETING of the MENSTON ASYLUM SUB- COMMITTEE appointed to deal with the question of the RAILWAY SIDING, held at the Asylum, on Friday, the 4th day of June, 1897. PRESENT. County Alderman H. Dunn, in the Chair. COUNTY COUNCILLORS. E. P. Arnold-Forster. B. Pilling. T. Clough. Col. T. H. Thwaites. Branch Railway.—Motive Power. The Sub-Committee again considered the question of the utilization of the branch railway from the Asylum to the junction with the Midland Railway system, referred back for the further consideration of the Sub-Committee at the last Quarterly Meeting (see Minutes No. 214, page 181), and after very careful consideration of details, the Sub-Committee came to a unanimous conclusion in favour of electric traction, and it was accordingly Resolved that it be recommended— (8) That electric traction be adopted as the motive power on the Asylum branch railway, at the estimated cost of £1,530, to be defrayed out of the Out-County Patients’ Fund. The Sub-Committee then went very carefully and in detail into the respective tenders of Messrs. Greenwood & Batley and Messrs. John Fowler & Company, and having interviewed representatives of both firms, Resolved that it be recommended— (9) That the tender of Messrs. John Fowler & Company to provide the electric motor, overhead wires, switches, poles, gearing, and other accessories at the sum of £1,080, part of the above sum of £1,530, be accepted with the proviso that in place of pine or other wooden poles the poles supplied shall be of iron to carry the trolley wire 18 feet above the level of the rails, and that the Contractors guarantee an efficiency of 95 per cent, upon trial; and that the other works consisting of renewal and repairs to the present permanent way, new sidings, and erection of Engine Shed, included in the estimate, be carried out by the West Riding Surveyor at an estimated cost of £450.
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